Re: "rag rope" waste reduction

["RUDY MOEHRBACH" <Rudy_Moehrbach@owr.ehnr.state.nc.us>]

From:          "Terry Albrecht" <Terry_Albrecht@owr.ehnr.state.nc.us>
Organization:  DEHNR\OWR
To:            p2tech@great-lakes.net
Date:          Mon, 5 May 1997 09:57:10 +0000
Subject:       "rag rope" waste reduction
Reply-to:      p2tech@great-lakes.net
Terry,
Solamente una pregunta. That steel seems to be contaminated about the 
same way that the steel from a junked car that has been crushed is 
contaminated. If you follow the crushed car you should find the 
market.  Rudy

Does anyone have experience dealing with "rag rope" waste in the
corrugate cardboard reprocessing industry?  This waste is a continuous
twisted bundle of steel bailing wire pulled out of the primary pulping
vat.  This bundle is 95% steel by weight but is contaminated with tape,
plastics, dirt/grit, and fiber pulp.  I am working with a mini-mill in
NC that is currently landfilling  a few tons of this material per day. 
Looking for any proven p2/wr strategies?   Thanks.




Terry Albrecht, PE
NC Division of Pollution Prevention &
Environmental Assistance
Asheville Office
25 Heritage Drive
Asheville, NC 28806
Phone (704) 232-5080
Fax   (704) 251-6353