In This Issue:

1 | Group warns of colorful PET takeover in Europe

A leading European trade group has warned that an influx of colored PET packaging is endangering the rPET market.

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2 | Scrap plastics exports rise sharply

Exports of scrap plastics bounced back in March, though cumulative numbers for 2015 continue to lag those of a year ago.

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3 | 2015 Recycling Innovators Forum: Entry deadline extended

The deadline has been extended until June 15 for submitting a proposal to the Recycling Innovators Forum.

The 2015 Recycling Innovators Forum is seeking entries from people and organizations with actionable ideas to advance recycling.

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.

In 2014, one winner was the Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council, which aims to build stakeholder coordination around recovering and recycling plastic material from hospitals.

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.

4 | EPS group: NYC ban will mean job losses

Expanded polystyrene interests are ratcheting up political pressure on New York City Hall to reverse the city's pending ban on EPS food-service products.

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5 | Wide world of plastics recycling

The Australian state of Queensland will move forward implementing a beverage container deposit program, and a panel in Europe says two PET recycling processes are safe for producing food and drink packaging.

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6 | PetroChem Wire: Indiana PS recycling plant ramps up

A 300,000-square-foot polystyrene recycling plant in Indianapolis is in startup mode and is expected to be at full operating rates by mid-June. The operation is a partnership between Plastics Recycling, Inc. and Dart Container Corp.

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7 | NewsBits

Low reclaimed plastic values are squeezing haulers and MRF operators, but there's hope on the horizon in the form of corporate commitments to buy recycled content and government recycled-content mandates.

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8 | Industry and supplier news

National Recovery Technologies (NRT) has named Jennifer Jones its research and development engineer. She will work to bring to market new systems and algorithms for materials identification in high-speed sorting environments. For more, click here.

AMUT ECOTECH is offering free trials of its mobile elliptical ballistic unit for the separation of recyclable materials. For more, click here.

Bunting Magnetics Europe has partnered with plastics recycling operation Recycled UK to help the company cut down on metals contamination. For more, click here.

9 | Upcoming conferences and webinars

Click here for a complete directory of upcoming conferences and webinars!

If you have a conference or webinar that you would like listed, please send an email to [email protected] for consideration.

10 | Jobs available and sought

Manager, Recycling Programs, Keep America Beautiful (Washington, D.C.).
Details are available here.

Quality Control Assistant, Denton Plastics (Portland, Oregon).
Details are available here.

Plant Manager, QRS (Baltimore, Maryland).
Details are available here.

Marketing Manager, Plastics Sales & Trading, TKO Polymers (Atlanta, Georgia).
Details are available here.

Plastic Sales & Marketing Representative, AMI Trading, Inc. (Miami, Florida).
Details are available here.

Various Positions, PRP Recycling (Chicago, Illinois).
Details are available here.

Jobs Sought
Database of job seekers available here.

If you would like to submit a job available or job sought listing, contact Jared Paben at [email protected].