Editor's Focus--Two-for-One Opportunity

For many people, spring is a season of growth and rebirth. For the staff of Recycling Today, it is also a time to hunker down in preparation for our Paper Recycling Conference & Trade Show, lining up speakers and moderators and finalizing session topics.

As we prepare for our seventh year, we’ve decided to challenge ourselves to provide more opportunities for our attendees. For those of you who might be worried that we’re tinkering with an event that you consider beneficial, please don’t be alarmed. The Paper Recycling Conference & Trade Show, scheduled for June 25-27 at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare in suburban Chicago, is not changing in any appreciable way. Instead, we are launching a complementary component: Recycling Today’s Plastics Recycling Conference & Trade Show.

You may be wondering why we’ve decided to make such a move. Quite simply, we recognized an opportunity to bring additional value to our attendees by providing complimentary educational sessions on a material that a good many of them are already handling. By co-locating the events, we also reduce the strain that additional travel could put on our attendees’ professional and personal lives and their company budgets. (We may have created more stress for ourselves in the process, but that’s another story.)

With our Paper Recycling Conference & Trade Show, we strive to provide informative sessions featuring notable industry professionals discussing current business and operational trends. We intend to continue this tradition with Recycling Today’s Plastics Recycling Conference & Trade Show. Session topics will cover industrial-grade resins and working with industrial accounts, plastics recovered from electronics, the effective use of sorting technology, efforts to increase the number of plastic containers collected from residential programs and how consumers of post-consumer resins work with their suppliers to ensure steady supplies of quality material. The show will conclude with a keynote session on the global outlook for secondary plastics.

Additional information on sessions, speakers, exhibitors and sponsorships will be posted to www.RecyclingTodayEvents.com. I encourage you to check back often for updated information.

The modest fee of $370 per person gets you access to either the Paper Recycling Conference & Trade Show or to Recycling Today’s Plastics Recycling Conference & Trade Show and to the shared exhibit hall, while an additional $55 gets you access to both educational tracks.

If you have suggestions for speakers, please feel free to contact me at dtoto@gie.net. After all, we want to make this conference as worthwhile for our readers as possible.