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McCarthy Joins California Company

Tierra Verde Industries (TVI) and E-Recycling of California (ERC) have hired Kevin P. McCarthy as business development manager for their recycling operations. He will report directly to Arthur Kazarian, president of TVI and ERC.

"We have incredible growth opportunities in our core recycling lines of business in C&D, composting and e-recycling," McCarthy says. "We see our mission as helping California communities meet and exceed their mandated recycling goals."

McCarthy was previously with Houston-based Waste Management for more than 12 years. Most recently, he served as vice president of governmental affairs for Recycle America Alliance (RAA), a majority-owned subsidiary of Waste Management. Prior to that, he was RAA’s director of electronics recycling.

TVI and ERC are divisions of Paramount Resource Recycling Inc., a family of privately held companies operating in Southern California.

TVI was formed in 1997 and has recycling operations located in San Juan Capistrano and Irvine, Calif. It processes green waste, wood debris and construction and demolition material.

ERC operates electronics recycling facilities in Paramount and Hayward, Calif.

Stellar Industries Appointments

Stellar Industries Inc. has appointed James Flatebo to the engineering department.

Flatebo comes to Stellar from Iowa State University. He has worked at Stellar the past two summers in production control and as a CNC programmer.

His new responsibilities include designing mechanic and tire service trucks, determining feasibility of body configurations and providing technical designs.

The Garner, Iowa-based manufacturer has also appointed Brian Goll as customer service representative.

Goll previously served as the service and parts director at Ollenburg Motors, also located in Garner, Iowa.

In his new position at Stellar Industries, Goll will be responsible for assisting customers and taking parts orders.

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