AI for scrap metal recyclers, tested on industrial loads you already settled.

Grades have one published reference. ReMA's ISRI Specifications come from the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, which now does business as the Recycled Materials Association. The July 2026 edition covers nonferrous and ferrous scrap along with paper, plastic, glass cullet, electronics and tires, and its preface asks that any deviation a buyer and seller agree on be documented in writing. That puts each industrial account's agreement, and every variation written into it, at the center of what a load settles as.

The list changes in public. Anyone may ask ReMA's president in writing to add, amend or withdraw a specification, and notice goes out at least twenty days before the board takes the request up. At its Spring Meeting in Las Vegas on April 13, 2026, the board added Ginger, for mixed shredded cast aluminum mechanically segregated from Zorba and Twitch. An agreement signed years ago still names the grades of its day, which is one more reason the draft quotes the agreement rather than assuming.

Plant scrap carries its own names. The aluminum list keeps Tata, new production aluminum extrusions, apart from Taint/Tabor, clean mixed old alloy sheet. Plants sell new production scrap of that first kind: offcuts, clippings and rejects of their own work, picked up from containers at its dock under a written agreement. Every such load your desk has already settled tells a reviewer, line by line, what a correct draft would have said.

Disputes have a forum. ReMA runs an arbitration service that both sides must agree to use. At least one party has to be a member, the arbitrators come from the association's panel, no more than three sit on a case and a single arbitrator is encouraged, and filings and awards stay confidential. A statement that shows its arithmetic is the paper both sides would start from.

State law shapes the second job. Scrap dealer statutes decide what a purchase record holds, and much of their detail concerns the person handing the metal over. Florida's, for one, has a secondary metals recycler send an electronic record of each purchase transaction to law enforcement by 10 a.m. the next business day with the price left off, produce the original form, price included, within 24 hours if an investigation asks, and keep the records for at least three years. How such rules reach a plant's or a contractor's scrap differs by state, and every commercial account's file has to show which way it went.

One limit covers both jobs. Nothing in the proof of concept sets a price, a grade or a deduction, or decides a settlement, a charge or whether you comply. It files no report and reaches out to no customer, buyer or agency. It touches only copies, with licenses, photographs and thumbprints redacted before anything moves, so personal data stays out. A person on your staff decides and sends.