2 | 2015 Recycling Innovators Forum launches
Hungry entrepreneurs with innovative ideas for improving the plastics recycling industry will receive a helping hand this fall.
The 2015 Recycling Innovators Forum and is now accepting entries from people and organizations with actionable ideas to advance recycling. The deadline for submissions is June 1, 2015.
This fall's Forum marks the third year for the recycling innovation event.
Up to 10 finalists will receive travel and lodging scholarships to attend the Resource Recycling Conference, to be held Sept. 28-30 in Indianapolis. The finalists will present their ideas to a panel of judges and an audience of industry decision-makers and investors at the Recycling Innovators Forum, held on Sept. 28 in conjunction with the conference. Judges will select a winner to receive a $20,000 prize to help move their innovation forward.
Resource Recycling magazine, sister publication to Plastics Recycling Update, will also feature the winning ideas in online and print stories.
In 2014, one winner was the Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council, which aims to build stakeholder coordination around recovering and recycling plastic material from hospitals. Those receiving honorable mentions included Creative Plastics Technology, which creates moldings from mixed plastics otherwise headed to landfill, and Zzyzx Polymers, which used a continuous mechanochemical compatibilization to process and optimize the use of mixed plastics.
The third annual Recycling Innovators Forum is made possible thanks to major sponsorships from the American Chemistry Council's Plastics Division, Waste Management and Resource Recycling, Inc., with additional support from the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries and the Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers.
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