November West Oakland Metal Shredder Collaborative meeting

The is a group of community members, government agencies, and senior leadership from Radius Recycling working together to address metal shredding emissions.

We're bringing notorious neighborhood polluter Radius Recycling to the table with community members and government regulators to work towards the common goal of reducing dangerous emissions.
This month, we'll zoom in on a dangerous byproduct of the metal shredding process: Light Fibrous Material (LFM). LFM is made of small synthetic fibers and metallic particles that come from crushed-up car seat stuffing, carpet, or other sources, and the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) has found that LFM travels out of Radius's facility and onto our streets. We'll hear directly from both DTSC, and senior leadership at Radius Recycling about what they're doing to reduce LFM.

Whether you've been involved in the Collaborative before or you're just hearing about it now, we'd love to have you at the meeting.

5:20 to 5:35: Pre-meeting time to settle in and connect

5:35 to 6:00: Introductions, updates, and perspectives

• Community members discuss goals for their involvement in the Collaborative and share their perspectives

6:00 to 6:15: Overview of the MOU (Memorandum of Undestanding) process

6:15 to 6:45: Report-outs from working groups

• Working groups will report on progress since the last meeting. Working groups include community reporting and public messaging; codifying and monitoring best practices at facility; and environmental health risk and racial equity

6:45 to 7:00: Radius Recycling presents on neighborhood notification system

• A neighborhood notification system could alert nearby residents in the event of a toxic fire

7:00 to 7:10: DTSC presents data on Light Fibrous Material (LFM)

• DTSC will share takeaways from their study of LFM at Radius

7:10 to 7:20: Radius Recycling presents on Light Fibrous Material (LFM)

• Radius will present on the quantity of LFM they're producing and steps they've taken to mitigate spread into the neighborhood

7:20 to 7:30: Collaborative dialogue, next steps, and close-out

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More info:

See more about the Collaborative.

Learn how WOEIP is tackling metal shredding pollution.

See a recording of our orientation to the West Oakland Metal Shredder Collaborative.

Meeting details:

Civicorps office
101 Myrtle St

Parking is available. The Civicorps office is 0.3 miles from the O bus.

Can't make it in person? There will be a remote option to call in.

Unfortunately, there will not be food or childcare at this meeting.