Plastic Scrap Industry to Gather in Atlanta

The collection and processing of plastic scrap will be at the center of attention at Recycling Today’s Plastics Recycling Conferences and Trade Show, to be held at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Atlanta June 7-9.

The 2009 version of the event will focus on several topics that have become critical to plastics recyclers in the past several months, including the troubling status of plastic scrap export markets and an update on where domestic markets stand.

“The past several months have been turbulent for the plastics recycling industry, with issues surrounding end markets being a foremost concern,” says James R. Keefe, group publisher of the Recycling Today Media Group. “Our programming is designed to examine those issues as well as to offer a look at emerging opportunities,” adds Keefe.

In addition to the sessions on scrap consuming markets—both foreign and domestic—other sessions will take a look at emerging markets beginning to take shape in North America and the attitudes of large corporations toward the environment and how that is beginning to affect the recycling loop.

Additionally, a panel of recycling industry leaders and Thomas J. Cunningham, vice president and associate director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, will provide a broader economic perspective to attendees.

The conference features the theme “Where Business Gets Done.” The theme reflects the conference history of not only helping participants get up to date on what’s happening in the industry, but also of providing a venue where operators and traders make deals and form relationships that generate future business for their firms.

The event is co-located with Recycling Today’s Paper Recycling Conference and Electronics Recycling Conference, with all three conferences sharing a joint exhibit hall and one simple registration process.

In 2009, for the first time, an attendee who registers for any of the three conferences will have full access to programming at all three events.