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ARA Issues Press Release AdmonishingGeneralMotors’ Circular Economy Detour
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ARARepresentativesAttendAffiliateChapterMeetings to Share Important Association Updates and Dialogue with Members
In mid-SeptemberARACEOMichael Wilson, traveled to Reno to attend the State of California Auto Dismantlers Association (SCADA) annual meeting, and President Mike Swift attended the Arizona Automotive Recyclers Association (AARA) annual meeting and golf tournament, held in memory of former ARA President Mark Buessing. In October, Swift was in Springfield, Illinois to attend the Auto & Truck Recyclers of Illinois (ATRI) annual meeting, Wilson was
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in Williamsburg,Virginia for theVirginiaAutomotiveRecyclers Associationmeeting(VARA),andARAVicePresident ofGovernment Affairs, Delanne Bernier, was at the Pennsylvania Automotive Recycling Trade Society (PARTS) annual trade show and expo in York,
PA.At all stops,ARA’s representatives discussed the recently introduced legislation,HR5967 which would require automak- ers to provide professional automotive recyclers access to part number and build sheet data for all motor vehicles. They urged the recyclers in attendance to contact their lawmakers and ask them to co-sponsor the legislation, as well as reaching out to non-ARA- Member recyclers that they know and have them do the same.
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RA representatives were across the nation during the month of September, meeting with affiliated state chapters and ARA members.
and its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra for GM’s new anti- environmentalpositionontheutilization of recycled GM parts. GM’s revised posi- tion statement on recycled and salvage original equipment manufacturers’ (OEM)parts, foundonthe corporation’s updated “Genuine GM Parts” website, sig- nificantly backtracks on the company’s economic stewardship commitments to conserve resources and protect the glob- al environment, and contradicts its pub- licly stated Environmental Principles by now attacking the use of environmental- ly friendly recycledGMparts. In the release, which has since been re- printed in several industry trade publica- tions, ARA states that despite touting a commitment to the basic tenants of a cir- cular economy – recovering all products, components and materials at their high- est utility and value – GM now fails to embrace fundamental reutilization of their very own parts once they have left a dealership. It is reprehensible for GM’s corporate position to be one that does
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n ARA press release in September admonished General Motors (GM)
Photo courtesy of Doug Reinert, Chuck’s Auto Salvage
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