In This Issue:

1 | Curbside Value Partnership forms nonprofit, splits from KAB

Curbside Value Partnership (CVP) recently announced that it will become an independent organization, splitting from Keep America Beautiful, where the organization operated as a KAB program for the last two years. Longtime director of CVP, Steve Thompson, was named executive director of the now-independent nonprofit organization. The group's board of directors is comprised of representatives from Alcoa, ARCO Aluminum Inc., Ball Corporation, Coca-Cola Recycling, Keep America Beautiful and Novelis.

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2 | PRC 2011: The new world of plastics sustainability

The conference opens with a thorough look at the key driver in today's market — the sustainability of plastics. Plastics producers, converters and brand owners are revising their business models to incorporate sustainability concepts. This is resulting in significant changes in the supply chain, including in plastics recycling. Three experts will provide extensive information on this important issue.

The Plastics Recycling Conference is universally considered a must-attend event for industry insiders and is an excellent opportunity to meet and network with clients, prospective partners, colleagues, vendors and industry leaders. For more information on how to attend the 2011 Plastics Recycling Conference, March 1-2 in New Orleans, visit www.plasticsrecycling.com or click the banner below.

3 | RecycleMania launches 2011 campaign

As colleges and universities ramp up for the NCAA basketball tournament, a number of them are also preparing for another parallel competition. RecycleMania pits college campuses across the country against each other to see which can out reduce, reuse and recycle other competing schools during an eight-week period beginning in February and running alongside the NCAA basketball tournament.

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4 | Recycling in the movies

The Professional Recyclers of Pennsylvania (PROP) is accepting submissions for its fourth annual Recycling Film Festival. To be held in Erie on July 25 in conjunction with PROP's annual recycling conference, schools, colleges, local governments and other institutions or individuals in the recycling industry are encouraged to submit a short video on any recycling or waste reduction topic.

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5 | American Metal Market uncovers UCB fraud

California's beverage deposit container system is being severely undermined and could be headed toward bankruptcy by shady interstate operations that are illegally cashing in on aluminum empties from Arizona residents, according to a series of articles published in American Metal Market. Through interviews with state officials and businesses that legitimately collect and redeem the material, as well as onsite reporting, the trade journal has found a burgeoning number of underground entrepreneurs that aggressively seek aluminum cans from Arizona, which lacks a beverage deposit container system, by offering higher prices for the material than legitimate businesses. The cans collected by the illicit traders are then cashed in under the Golden State's return system, reports AMM.

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6 | The state of business is green

GreenBiz Group, a media company focused on sustainable business, has released its "State of Green Business Report," which finds that large corporations are becoming increasingly environmentally minded, and are making strides in increasing recycling and using recycled materials.

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7 | England hits 40 percent recycling rate

England has reached an environmental milestone. The Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has released numbers showing that, for the first time, the country either recycled or composted 40 percent of its household waste. The numbers are based on data submitted by local authorities in England on the amount of waste they collected and managed for the financial year encompassing July 2009 through June 2010.

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8 | NewsBits

The Yellow Pages offer national opt-out website, National Canned Food Month to feed the hungry and MA legislator looks to scuttle the Bay State Governor's plan to update bottle bill — all in this week's NewsBits.

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9 | Upcoming conferences

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10 | Jobs Available & Sought

Recycling Programs Supervisor, Orange County Solid Waste Management (Chapel Hill, North Carolina).
Details are available online.

Recycling Coordinator, Bio-Pappel (Colorado Springs, Colorado).
Details are available here.

Plant Manager, Bio-Pappel (Colorado Springs, Colorado).
Details are available here.

Plastics Business Development, Continental Waste Management LLC (Raleigh, North Carolina).
Details are available here.

PET Procurement Specialist, Perpetual Recycling Solutions (Richmond, Indiana).
Details are available here.

Writer/Editor/Proofreader, Ab.Editing (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
Details are available here.

New Business Development Inside Sales Representative, Sims Metal Management (West Chicago, Illinois).
Details are available here.

New Business Development Field Sales Representative, Sims Metal Management (West Chicago, Illinois).
Details are available here.

Account Executive, Sims Metal Management (West Chicago, Illinois).
Details are available here.

Outside Account Representative, Global Green Solutions of Indiana (Indianapolis, Indiana).
Details are available here.

Organics Recycling Operations Manager, Waste Management, Inc. (Southern U.S. Region).
Details are available online, search for job number 102782.

Materials Recovery Facility Manager, Waste Management, Inc. (Minneapolis).
Details are available online, search for job number 102790.

Sales Engineer/Project Manager, WM Recycle America (Western U.S. Region).
Details are available online, search for job number 102510.

Asset Recovery/Recycling Operation Manager, WM Recycle America (Round Rock, Texas).
Details are available online, search for job number 102697.

VP Sales and Marketing, Omni Resource Recovery, Inc..
Details are available here.

Various Positions, General Kinematics (Crystal Lake, Illinois).
Details are available online.

Jobs Sought
Database of job seekers available here.

If you would like to submit a job available or job sought listing, send an email to managing editor Dylan de Thomas at [email protected].