Publisher's Focus

The recycling business is a dynamic industry, one in which change is constant. In fact, it’s an essential ingredient to success. All businesses involved in secondary commodities today are doing business differently than they did only a few short years ago. Consuming markets and technology are two of the most powerful engines driving this change.

As a publication dedicated to providing the most comprehensive editorial and circulation coverage of the recycling industry, Recycling Today is also committed to growth through change. Founded in 1963 as Secondary Raw Materials magazine, our journal has evolved over the years to meet industry informational needs and the demands of our reader and advertiser customers.

This issue marks another change in our proud history. To better meet the informational needs of our readers, we have re-designed our departments to provide more focused business coverage based on our readers’ individual business needs.

Effective with this issue, we have eliminated Business Watch, Corporate News and Under the Wire. The magazine will now open with Scrap Industry News, a department dedicated to covering the news of industrial recycling – legislation, mergers and acquisitions, innovative technology, business trends and more. This will be followed by Municipal Recycling News, dedicated to coverage of the post-consumer recycling markets.

Our commodity market coverage will also be strengthened by eliminating Metal Watch and replacing it with Ferrous and Nonferrous. Nonmetallics will remain. The latter two will contain subheads for each of the specific commodities covered.

Under the Wire will be replaced with an editorial department which will run every other month, titled simply Back Page. This will be a flexible department, sometimes covering important late-breaking news and other times dedicated to the lighter, fun aspects of our business.

We will also be making some more subtle changes, adding more industry news and analysis to our editorial pages. Reporting on what is happening in the recycling business on a global basis is the easy part of our job. However, to fulfill our mission we must always provide authoritative and bold reporting that is broad-based and which anticipates and analyzes developments most important to our readers’ business interests. That requires seeing beyond what is in front of us and looking into the future. That’s the tough job, but it’s the job we’ll be doing more of in our editorial pages each month.

We hope you enjoy these changes and find that they add value to the time you spend with Recycling Today each month. We invite your comments and hope that you will share your thoughts with us. You can reach us by e-mail, fax or even traditional mail.

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