In This Issue:

1 | Cal/OSHA tags LA-area recycling businesses

A workers' safety agency in California has cited a Los Angeles-based recycling company and two other associated businesses with three dozen safety violations.

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2 | RR Conference 2012 How to get more materials recovered

Three noteworthy organizations have sprung up in the last year, all aimed at boosting packaging recycling rates through industry-driven initiatives. This compelling panel features key members of each organization who will share these group's goals and strategies for getting more materials recycled.

Under the banner of Action to Accelerate Recycling, 90 corporate, trade group, environmental and governmental leaders met in February to devise a plan to push packaging recycling levels higher. With such an impressive array of powerful members from all across the supply chain, this voluntary, action oriented initiative has the potential to drastically impact the national recycling landscape. But how do they plan to achieve their ambitious goals? Learn more about this brand-new endeavor from Beth Schmitt, director of recycling programs for Alcoa.

AMERIPEN is a new packaging trade organization with a special focus on how public policies impact the packaging value chain. Representing the broad interests of the industry — including raw material producers, packaging manufacturers, packaging users and fillers, retailers and material recovery organizations — this new organization is poised to become an integral center for influencing environmental packaging issues related to legislation and regulation.

Recycling Reinvented is a brand-new nonprofit organization committed to advancing recycling rates of waste packaging and printed material in the United States through an extended producer responsibility (EPR) model. The product of a dialogue process initiated by Nestle Waters North America and convened by Future 500, you don't want to miss Recycling Reinvented's executive director, Paul Gardner, as he outlines how the new organization will strive for brand owners of packaging and printed materials to cover the cost of managing their products.

Don't miss this critical, forward-thinking session moderated by Scott Cassel, founder and CEO of the Product Stewardship Institute. For more information on the 2012 Resource Recycling Conference, to be held at the Hilton Austin in Austin, Texas, August 28-29, including information on the Hilton Austin, session topics and the agenda, or exhibiting and sponsorship opportunities, please visit www.rrconference.com or click on the banner below.

3 | Philly pilot sends foods scraps down the drain

The City of Philadelphia and a maker of food scrap disposers have launched a project meant to gauge how well the devices could divert organics from landfills in the city.

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4 | Study finds more recycling equals more consumption

Consumers who are presented with the option to recycle may increase their resource usage compared to those who don't have that option, according to a new study.

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5 | Beverage container makers call for more recycling

Makers of beverage containers used the Indiana Recycling Coalition's annual meeting, held earlier this month, to call attention to the shortage of recycled materials that they say is raising their manufacturing costs.

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6 | The wide world of recycling

The head of a prominent waste-reduction organization in the U.K. recommends that processors of e-scrap end a common practice, and in Malaysia two companies have rolled out a project meant to encourage students to recycle.

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7 | Vermont breaks e-scrap collection goal

Vermont's e-scrap program has broken its first year collection goal.

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8 | NewsBits

Kids fight back Crayola with cuteness, Minneapolis going single-stream and booze pouches exempted from MI bottle bill — all in this week's NewsBits.

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9 | Upcoming conferences & webinars

Click here for a complete directory of upcoming conferences and webinars! If you have a conference or webinar that you would like listed, please send an email to [email protected] for consideration.

10 | Jobs Available & Sought

Various Positions Highlighted by the Northern California Recycling Association (Northern California Area).
Details are available online.

Recycling Coordinator, Bio-PAPPEL (Albuquerque, New Mexico).
Details are available here.

Operations Manager, Postconsumer Processing, Warehouse and Brokering Operation (Kansas).
Details are available here.

Safety Manager, Waste Management, Inc. (Phoenix, Arizona).
Details are available online (#121311).

Project Manager, WM Sustainability Services, Waste Management, Inc. (Edmonton Region).
Details are available here.

Municipal Marketing Representative III, Waste Management, Inc. (Baltimore/Washington D.C. Area).
Details are available online (#12838).

Facility General Manager, Waste Management, Inc. (Mira Loma, California).
Details are available online (#121050).

Recycling Supervisor, Drumheller & District Solid Waste Management Association (Drumheller, Alberta).
Details are available online.

Paper Recycling Plant Manager, Corrugated Services (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma).
Details are available here.

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].