We are winning in the "big picture". Yale's E360 (Environment 360) author Mike Ives doesn't call it "fair trade recycling", but gets researchers Josh Lepawsky, Ramzy Kahhat, Eric Williams and Nitin Gupta to voice their opinions that the "E-Waste" story needs to get corrected.
At least the Yale Environment 360 story is on the path to a correction, a very welcome and long awaited one. "E-Waste" is dead, long live E-Recycling.
Speaking of corrections.... Forgive me if I don't have the strength to dance. We are winning the war, but not the battle for Vermont. Six months after USA Today ran a story putting Good Point Recycling at the center of the export debate, we find ourselves teetering at a precipice. "Guess I got what I deserve".
Guess that's all I have to say
Except the feeling just grows stronger every day
Just one thing before I go
Take good care, baby, let me know, let it grow...
(Badfinger, Baby Blue)
It is crunch time at Good Point Recycling. And by that I don't mean operation of balers. It is time for putting exports of scrap metal and plastic and used electronics into perspective. I'm looking at the growing necessity of laying off 50% of the staff at Good Point Recycling, and have invited staff from the Vermont Department of Labor to the plant next week. We plan to keep on fifteen positions, less than half the weekly payroll. And that's being optimistic about the State of Vermont actually allowing us to run an independent "opt out" recycling program for manufacturers. And optimistic that the manufacturers will get us contracts and pay for the work on a timely basis.
Vermont Department of Labor staff will come on February 13 to brief the staff on options for "job training and placement" in Vermont. But these are blue collar, physical workers.
You Are Here. Sparta, Vermont. Invisible from space, and just as important. A black hole in space for investors to sink job creation money in.
Will the firing of half our Vermont payroll enough to keep ANR happy? Evidently not. Below is an email sent from the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources (Kimberli Lutchko) yesterday. They are going after the companies that are trying to user our Independent Opt Out Plan. Notice how she blames Good Point Recycling for Vermont ANR's decision not to allow the Manufacturers to join the Independent Plan.
"As far as I know, there has been plenty of legislative action to ban trade and informal recycling," but insufficient action to develop alternate approaches, says Eric Williams, a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology...
(Just remember all the people whose companies got closed and lost their jobs and were defamed between 2002-2012. The contract manufacturing factories (run by former staff from Proview, BenQ, Viewsonic, Wistron and Foxconn) never really needed advice, assistance, or help from the Great White Father. Those were most of the exports, and most of the experts. Those companies forced closures explains why ITC found so little actual overseas shipping after 2011.)
Speaking of corrections.... Forgive me if I don't have the strength to dance. We are winning the war, but not the battle for Vermont. Six months after USA Today ran a story putting Good Point Recycling at the center of the export debate, we find ourselves teetering at a precipice. "Guess I got what I deserve".
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Except the feeling just grows stronger every day
Just one thing before I go
Take good care, baby, let me know, let it grow...
(Badfinger, Baby Blue)
It is crunch time at Good Point Recycling. And by that I don't mean operation of balers. It is time for putting exports of scrap metal and plastic and used electronics into perspective. I'm looking at the growing necessity of laying off 50% of the staff at Good Point Recycling, and have invited staff from the Vermont Department of Labor to the plant next week. We plan to keep on fifteen positions, less than half the weekly payroll. And that's being optimistic about the State of Vermont actually allowing us to run an independent "opt out" recycling program for manufacturers. And optimistic that the manufacturers will get us contracts and pay for the work on a timely basis.
Vermont Department of Labor staff will come on February 13 to brief the staff on options for "job training and placement" in Vermont. But these are blue collar, physical workers.
You Are Here. Sparta, Vermont. Invisible from space, and just as important. A black hole in space for investors to sink job creation money in.
Will the firing of half our Vermont payroll enough to keep ANR happy? Evidently not. Below is an email sent from the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources (Kimberli Lutchko) yesterday. They are going after the companies that are trying to user our Independent Opt Out Plan. Notice how she blames Good Point Recycling for Vermont ANR's decision not to allow the Manufacturers to join the Independent Plan.
