RIOS™ appoints two new members to its board of directors

The Recycling Industry Operating Standard™ (RIOS™) recently named Jeremy Miller of Wm. Miller Scrap Iron & Metal Co. in Winona, Minnesota and Scott Venhaus of Arrow Electronics in Englewood, Colorado to its Board of Directors. Each will serve a three year term. RIOS™ is the recycling industry’s management system standard for quality, environment, and health and safety (QEH&S). Specifically designed for the recycling industry, RIOS™, integrates the key operational elements found in other standards, such as ISO 9001 (Q), ISO 14001 (E), and OHSAS 18001 (H&S), bringing them together into one streamlined management system.

“RIOS is excited to welcome Jeremy Miller and Scott Venhaus to the RIOS Board of Directors,” said Darrell Kendall, director of RIOS™. “Their strong leadership skills, recycling expertise, and commitments to maintaining healthy, safe and environmentally responsible facilities make them ideal candidates to help lead the program over the next three years. Under the leadership of Jeremy, Scott and their colleagues on the board, RIOS will have the necessary guidance to continue to grow and solidify its place as the standard for the industry.”

Jeremy Miller is a fourth-generation recycler, serving as the Chief Financial Officer of the family owned and operated Wm. Miller Scrap Iron & Metal Co. The company has 20 employees who are involved in a recycling operation that includes shears, balers, cranes, excavators, trucks, loaders as well as various types of other equipment. They also operate a licensed mixed solid waste and construction and demolition transfer station and provide roll-off dumpster services.

“I'm honored to serve on the RIOS Board of Directors and I look forward to the opportunity to learn from other experts in the industry as well as to bring some of my family’s knowledge to the Board,” said Miller.

Scott Venhaus is Director of Global Quality and Compliance at Arrow, where he manages quality, safety, environmental compliance and operational excellence for Arrow’s global reverse logistics services business. Arrow is a Fortune 150 company serving more than 100,000 customers in 58 countries.

“RIOS is critical to creating standardized processes, and ultimately, facilities that ensure that electronics are safely and responsibly handled at end of life,” says Venhaus.