Brian Taylor of Recycling Today and Robin Ingenthron of Good Point Hang Out

https://www.recyclingtoday.com/author/briantaylor/

https://www.recyclingtoday.com/media/robin-ingenthron-podcast-conversation/

Brian is an Ohio guy, or was when I met him. Straight laced, tall, friendly, but seemingly shy. I pulled up a chair to exchange journalism chatter (about my dad being a University of Arkansas Mass Communications / Journalism professor). And he asked me to pen my first Op Ed for Recycling Today  back in 2001, about this unheard of Taiwanese-Chinese factory owner no one ever heard of, Terry Gou, whose contract manufacturing factories were subcontractors for Apple, HP, Dell, etc. Han Hoi Precision Institute would later become better known as Foxconn, the company that makes the most electronics of any company in the world today, on behalf of almost every major trademark.

Brian would, years later, move from Ohio to live in Hong Kong. He stayed caught up with this blog over the next couple of decades (like Adam Minter, who was then based in Shanghai).  He could see first hand the ridiculous Beverly Hillbillies Scale of racial profiling when it came to Western depictions of the reuse, repair and recycling markets in China and the Emerging Market world in general, and like Adam Minter, has handed me a lot of water bottles on my marathon blogging - my efforts to help the West distinguish between the Brilliant Top of Class Tech Sector, and garbage burning orphans in the scrap sector (who NEVER imported ANYTHING, much less "80%" of all e-waste).

Brian and I are both now sprouting some gray whiskers, but he recently reached out to encourage me to to keep "reporting" on things like Plastic Offsets in Cameroun, or ill-informed arrests of electronics reuse diaspora in the Canary Islands. Brian covered the Biden Administration's 150-year-Anniversary attempt to Reform the General Mining Act of 1872, a law that has festered like an Orc blade tip in the Recycling Investment industry... (a bit belatedly, on the 151st anniversary, but Brian gets an A+ from me even if he turned his article in after my deadline).

Recycling Today now hosts a Podcast with interviews of Recycling Professionals, and I am honored this November to be profiled in his interview, which was held at 8AM Brian's time (now Singapore... like many others he skiddaddled from Hong Kong with his family), 8PM Vermont time.

So when I went back and listened to this, I hear Brian at 8 AM and Robin at 8 PM. Brian's had coffee, Robin's had a glass of Shiraz. Brian asks Robin at least three times to name some of the countries Good Point Recycling has done business with.

Perhaps I'm still scarred by the California Compromise, when I attempted to get Basel Action Network to recognize Net Peripheral, and BAN instead went after NP's import permit, forcing it to close (but nothing illegal happened, the Malaysian government simply took the permit away at Jim Puckett's urging).

But here you go, Brian.  We'll go alphabetically...

Angola

Burkina Faso

Cameroon, Catalonia

Denmark

England, Egypt

France

Ghana, Germany

Herzegovina

Indonesia

Japan

Korea. Kaunas

Lima, London, Lithuania

Mexico, Malaysia, Morocco

Netherlands

Oman? The only country that starts with O. Oklahoma?

Peru

Quebec

Republic of Congo, Robin Retroworks 

Taiwan

Uganda

Vilnius, Vermont

Washington?

X.com, Xina in China is Catalan

Never been to Yemen. Yuma AZ CRT glass knowledge shout out to Dlubak

Zaire

Brian Taylor is the only Recycling Editor to cover the Biden Administration's attempts to reform the General Mining Act of 1872.  One hundred years from now (on the 250th anniversary), someone is going to care about that.