Shanghai Scrap

[UPDATE: As it happens, RTÉ put me on the air 30 minutes before originally announced (with 10 minutes notice!), so apologies to anyone planning to listen at the originally scheduled time. The 10 minute interview (of me) will be posted to the show's website later today, and I'll post a link when it's available. The subsequent 20 minute discussion among the other guests was excellent, and well worth hearing.]

Briefly: I’ll be a guest on RTÉ Radio 1’s Today with Pat Kenny, broadcast from Dublin, on Thursday, January 15, during the 11 AM hour, Dublin time (7:00 PM in Shanghai, and 5:00 AM in Minnesota). We’re going to discuss the collapse of the Chinese scrap recycling markets, and the impact that the collapse has had on Ireland and other scrap exporting nations. We’ll also be joined by a couple of Irish guests with expertise regarding the specific situation there. The program can be streamed here, and it looks as if it will be archived and downloadable via itunes.

In other news. A particularly virulent flu has waylaid the entire Shanghai Scrap staff (me) for the better part of five days, resulting in an unanticipated posting hiatus. Fear not, though … recovery efforts are finally underway. We plan to look out the window, again, tomorrow.