In This Issue:

1 | National ad push puts recycling back in spotlight

For the first time in decades, the community improvement group Keep America Beautiful and the Ad Council are teaming up on a national recycling awareness campaign, this time with the goal of turning more Americans into “avid recyclers.”

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2 | RR Conference 2013: Regarding recovered paper markets

What can we expect from recovered paper markets? Is China's appetite for U.S. recovered paper waning? Find out from veteran industry expert, Bill Moore, as he critically examines the current status and future outlook for the major recovered paper grades: OCC, ONP, SOP, and Mixed Paper. This important analysis will include a review of supply, demand, quality and pricing information on both the U.S. supply/domestic market and the ever more important offshore recovered paper markets.

Find out what works for recycling at the 2013 Resource Recycling Conference to be held August 27-28 at the Marriott Louisville Downtown in Louisville, Kentucky. For more information, including information on booking a hotel room, session topics, or exhibiting and sponsorship opportunities, please visit www.rrconference.com or click on the banner below.

3 | Senator drops filibuster threat against EPA nominee McCarthy

Gina McCarthy's path to the top spot of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency got a bit easier this week when a leading Republican senator vowed not to filibuster when her nomination comes up for a Senate vote.

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4 | California battery recycling facility permitted to remain open

Lead-battery recycling company Exide Technologies has been permitted to keep its Vernon, California plant up-and-running because of a California Superior Court judgment made last week.

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5 | Massachusetts lawmakers don't expand bottle bill

A law that would have allowed for the redemption of bottles and cans of most non-carbonated drinks has been left out of the Massachusetts state budget.

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6 | Japanese mill looks to process the fiber no one else wants

Recycled paper and paperboard mills often reject a number of types of paper when the product contains materials, such as magnetic strips or plastic film, that cannot be easily processed. Now a Japanese producer of recycled tissue and toilet paper plans to utilize these sources of fiber.

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7 | The wide world of recycling

A food-for-scrap program in Mexico and an informational recycling kit for British officials top our rundown of international updates.

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8 | New plastic recycling innovations profiled

Inventors are set to unveil a new food-grade recycling method for post-consumer PP packaging at this fall's Recycling Innovators Forum.

Although polypropylene is one of the most widespread resins used, its recycling rate consistently lags far behind PET and HDPE. This new technology allows PP food packaging to be completely decontaminated and reused in a closed loop back into food packaging. The new technology profiled at the forum will allow recycled PP to displace virgin PP with savings on resources, emissions and landfill.

Details on how the process works will be first available exclusively to attendees at the first annual Recycling Innovators Forum, to be held August 26 in Louisville, Kentucky. For more information on attending, visit www.recyclinginnovators.com or click on the banner below.

9 | NewsBits

A Montana county tries to save its recycling program, Coca-Cola sets new sustainability guidelines and a government rift over curbside collection in Chicago — all in this week's NewsBits.

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10 | Requests for proposals

Colorado Association for Recycling wishes to hire a part-time contractor specializing in conference program development and coordination services for its 2014 Summit for Recycling. Details and bid document can be found here.

The King County RFP for the Sustainable Solid Waste Management Study is here — to access click "enter site as guest."

The Lexington-Fayette County Government's RFP for a material recovery facility labor supply and on-site manager is here. Download RFP#24-2013 at the bottom of the page.

11 | 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.

12 | Jobs Available & Sought

VP of Sales and Marketing, CP Group (San Diego, California).
Details are available here.

Program Manager, PaintCare (Minnesota).
Details are available here.

Program Manager, PaintCare (New England).
Details are available here.

Senior Program Educator — Solid Waste & Recycling, Washington County (Hillsboro, Oregon).
Details are available online.

Program Director, Texas Campaign for the Environment (Houston, Texas).
Details are available here.

Sustainable Work Program Assistant, St. Vincent de Paul (Eugene, Oregon).
Details are available here.

Plant Manager, Sims Recycling Solutions (Elkridge, Maryland).
Details are available online.

Account Executive — Mobile Devices, Sims Recycling Solutions (West Chicago, Illinois).
Details are available online.

Sales Representative, TKO Polymers (Atlanta).
Details are available here.

Outside Sales Representative, Waste Management (Oakland, California — Req. #164264).
Details are available online.

MRF Manager III (Materials Recycling Facility), Waste Management (Spokane, Washington — Req. #169773).
Details are available online.

Executive Director, California Resource Recovery Association (California).
Details are available online.

Business Development Supervisor, IMS Electronics Recycling (Vancouver, Washington).
Details are available online.

Business Development Associate, Lifespan Technology Recycling, Inc. (Multiple Locations).
Details are available here.

VP of Business Development, Integrated Communications and Technologies (Malden, Massachusetts).
Details are available here.

Sales Personnel, American Reclamation, Inc. (Los Angeles, California).
Details are available here.

Various, Product Stewardship Institute (Boston, Massachusetts).
Details are available online.

Various Positions Highlighted by the Northern California Recycling Association (Northern California Area).
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 associate editor Dan Leif at [email protected].