In This Issue:

1 | Connecticut wins case over unredeemed bottle deposits

The state Supreme Court in Connecticut has ruled the state can keep nearly $6 million in unredeemed bottle deposits it forced beer and soda distributors to turn over several years ago.

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2 | RR Conference 2013: A who's who of industry leaders

Nearly 230 companies and organizations will be represented at the upcoming Resource Recycling Conference and Trade Show in Louisville, Kentucky. Over a dozen sponsors and 50 exhibiting organizations have come together to create the most engaging and forward-looking event in recycling to date.

The Resource Recycling Conference will be held August 27-28 at the Marriott Louisville Downtown in Louisville, Kentucky. The first annual Recycling Innovators Forum will also be held in conjunction with the conference on August 26, with free admission for conference attendees.

Time is running out to connect with top recycling professionals and these innovative companies and organizations! Register today at rrconference.com!

360 Waste · ACUA · Adams-Clermont Solid Waste District · Advanced Disposal · Advanced Equipment Sales · Agilyx Corporation · AL DEM · Alaskans for Litter Prevention & Recycling · Alcoa / Evermore Recycling · American Chemistry Council · American Forest & Paper Association · Ameripen · AMUT Ecotech S.r.l. · APR ·Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers · Association of Ohio Recyclers · Association of Oregon Recyclers ·Avery Dennison · B K Holdings Ltd. ·Ball Corporation · BC Bottle Depot Association · Berry Plastics · Blue Bag Organics · Blue Mountain Plastic · Boyle County Fiscal Court · Brown County Solid Waste ·Buhler Group · Busch Systems Intl. Inc. · California Resource Recovery Association · Canuck Compounders Inc. · Carris Plastics · Cascade Engineering, Inc. · Cascadia Consulting Group · Casella Recycling LLC · Catlettsburg Refining LLC · CCH Environmental Group · Chittenden Solid Waste District · cie Trade Systems, Inc. · CIF · City of Austin - Resource Recovery · City of Fort Collins · City of Gainesville · City of O'Fallon · City of Portland · City of Stillwater · City of Tacoma, Solid Waste Management · City of Urbana, Illinois · Clearstream Recycling, Inc. · Clearwater Paper · Coalicion de Reciclaje de Puerto Rico · Coca-Cola Recycling · Colorado Association for Recycling / RONA ·Community Recycling Center · Conestoga-Rovers & Associates · Consumer Aerosol Products Council · Container Recycling Institute · CP Group · CRINC · Cumberland Recycling · Curbside Value Partnership · Cuyahoga County Solid Waste Management District · Dearborn County Solid Waste Mgmt. District · Dem-Con Companies · DKMM Solid Waste District · DSM Environmental Services, Inc. · Earth911, Inc. · Eastern Aerosol Association · Eco Partners · EcoPelicano · Emmet County · Encorp Pacific · Entropex ·Enviroplas, Inc. · EnviroStar Waste Service · Envision Plastics · ERC Engineers · Evermore Recycling-Alcoa Global Packaging · E-World Recyclers/E-World Online · Foodservice Packaging Institute · For Sustainability Too · Gaia Strategies · GBB · Glass Mfg. Industry Council · Goodwill Industries International · Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana · Green Line Polymers, Inc. · Green Umbrella Sustainability Alliance · GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition · GreenMantra Technologies · GreenPath Sustainability Consultants · Gulfstream Services · Hamilton County Recycling and Solid Waste District · Han Li Metalworks Co., Ltd. · Herbold USA · Hibu - publisher of Yellowbook · Hilex Poly Co. LLC · Hill+Knowlton Strategies · Houston-Galveston Area Council · Hyperplastics · Indiana Department of Environmental Management · Indiana Recycling Coalition · International Paper · International Sleep Products Association · IRC COG · JAYCO, INC. · Johns Manville · Joint Base Andrews · Kankakee Community College · KDEP-DWM-HWB · Keep America Beautiful · Kentucky South Recycling · Kessler Consulting, Inc. · KY Recycling Assistance Section · L&P Wire Tie Systems · LFUCG/Division of Waste Management · Lindner America LLC · Louisville Metro Solid Waste Management Services · Louisville/Jefferson County Waste Management District · M2B2 LLC · Machinex · Maggie Clarke Environmental · Maryland Department of Environment · Maryland Recycling Network · MassRecycle, Inc. · McPherson Area Solid Waste · MD Plastics · Meade County Solid Waste & Recycle · Metal Conversion Technologies, LLC · Metro Vancouver · Metro Waste Authority · Metropolitan Environmental Trust · Michigan Recycling Coalition · Ministry of Environment · Missouri Recycling Association · MMJ OHIS NIG.LTD · Montgomery Regional Solid Waste Authority · Moore & Associates · Moore Recycling Associates · NAPCOR · National Recycling Coalition · NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources · Nestle Waters North America · Nestor Resources, Inc. · New Mexico Environment Department · New Mexico Recycling Coalition · New York City · Nextek · Novelis Corporation · NRT · NSWMA · OBRC · OHL · Olympic Wire & Equipment, Inc. · Owens-Illinois, Inc. · PAC NEXT · Padnos · PaintCare · Paper Recycling Coalition · Pellenc Selective Technologies · Pennsylvania Recycling Markets Center, Inc. · Perpetual Recycling Solutions · Phoenix Technologies · Plastics Provider, Inc. · Plateau Environmental Protection and Sanitation Agency · Polymer Technologies and Services, Inc. · Product Stewardship Institute · Progressive Waste Solutions · Reclay StewardEdge, Inc. · ReCommunity Recycling · Recupera · Recycle Away · Recycle Clear · RecycleForce · Recycling Council of Alberta · Recycling Markets · Recycling Reinvented · rePLANET · Republic Machine · Resolute Forest Products · Resource Recycling Systems · Resource Recycling, Inc. · Re-TRAC Connect · Rumpke Recycling · Rural Action · S+S Inspection, Inc. · Sabert Corporation · Samuel Strapping Systems · Schupan Industrial Recycling · SERA- Skumatz Economic Research Assoc · Shelby County Solid Waste · Shoreland'r · Shred-Tech · Sonoco · Southeast Recycling Development Council · Starbucks Coffee Company · State of Texas Alliance for Recycling (STAR) · Steel Recycling Institute · Strategic Materials, Inc. · SWALCO · Technimark LLC · Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation · TeTechS, Inc. · The Coca-Cola Company · The Rehrig Pacific Company · Tompkins County Solid Waste · Trex Company, Inc. · Tri-Arrows Aluminum, Inc. · TRICOR · U.S. Zero Waste Business Council · Universal Recycling Technologies · University of Colorado · University of Kentucky · University of Louisville · University of Wisconsin Extension · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · VAN DYK Recycling Solutions · Vangel, Inc. · Verallia/Saint-Gobain Containers, Inc. · Verso Paper Corporation · Washington State Recycling Association · Waste Management · Waste Management Sustainability Services · Waukesha County · WEIMA America · Weisenbach Recycled Products · Western Disposal Services, Inc. · WM Sustainability Services

3 | Registration opens for Recycle-Bowl 2013

Keep America Beautiful and Nestle Waters North America have announced the third annual Recycle-Bowl competition, a month-long challenge to see which U.S. school can become the national recycling champion.

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4 | Boston launches food composting pilot

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5 | Plastic film piles up in the U.S. due to Green Fence

Washington's Thurston County recycling center once collected 15 tons of plastic film each month from county residents. With high demand overseas, the county had no problem receiving and selling the film.

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6 | Wide world of recycling

PET collection rates in Europe on the rise, Georgetown University business students working to develop recycling in South Africa and recycling bins with eyes in the back of their heads — it's all covered in this week's edition of the wide world of recycling.

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7 | RR Conference 2013: How to plan for packaging

How to accommodate evolving types of consumer packaging is hotly debated within the recycling industry. A number of multi-stakeholder organizations have sprouted in the last few years to tackle this question with input from multiple supply chain players, but are we any closer to answering the packaging question? Don't miss this opportunity to hear from three key industry groups — AMERIPEN, PAC NEXT and Recycling Reinvented — as they explore their various efforts underway to tackle the packaging issue.

The 2013 Resource Recycling Conference will be held August 27-28 at the Marriott Louisville Downtown in Louisville, Kentucky. For more information, please visit www.rrconference.com or click on the banner below.

8 | NewsBits

A little bit of everything is in this week's NewsBits, including a fascinating waste solutions company started by a Villanova student and a ranking of U.S. states by recycling revenue per capita.

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9 | Requests for proposals

Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection seeks proposals to provide product stewardship and extended producer responsibility policy development and implementation services. Details and bid document can be found here. On the site, scroll down to the "Energy and Environmental Protection, Department of" listing. Interested parties can also contact Joyce Eason at (860) 424-3659

Colorado Association for Recycling wishes to hire a part-time contractor specializing in conference program development and coordination services for its 2014 Summit for Recycling. Details and bid document can be found here.

The King County RFP for the Sustainable Solid Waste Management Study is here — to access click "enter site as guest."

The Lexington-Fayette County Government's RFP for a material recovery facility labor supply and on-site manager is here. Download RFP#24-2013 at the bottom of the page.

10 | Upcoming conferences & 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.

11 | Jobs Available & Sought

Senior Consultant-Project Manager, Resource Recycling Systems(Ann Arbor, Michigan).
Details are available here.

Executive Director, Indiana Recycling Coalition.
Details are available here.

Director-Project Management, Recyclebank (New York).
Details are available here.

Operations and Policy Analyst 2, Oregon e-Cycles (Portland, Oregon).
Details are available here. Job Code: DEQ13-0343LE.

VP of Engineering Design, CP Manufacturing, Inc. (San Diego, California).
Details are available here.

Recycling Equipment Account Manager, Omega Search (Charlotte, North Carolina).
Details are available here.

Environmental Specialist, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (Dover, Delaware).
Details are available here.

Midwest Region Recycling General Manager; Integrated paper, recycling and converting packaging company.
Details are available here.

Executive Director, Carolina Recycling Association (North Carolina/South Carolina).
Details are available here.

VP of Sales and Marketing, CP Group (San Diego, California).
Details are available here.

Program Manager, PaintCare (Minnesota).
Details are available here.

Program Manager, PaintCare (New England).
Details are available here.

Program Director, Texas Campaign for the Environment (Houston, Texas).
Details are available here.

Plant Manager, Sims Recycling Solutions (Elkridge, Maryland).
Details are available here.

Account Executive — Mobile Devices, Sims Recycling Solutions (West Chicago, Illinois).
Details are available here.

MRF Manager III (Materials Recycling Facility), Waste Management (Spokane, Washington — Req. #169773).
Details are available here.

Business Development Supervisor, IMS Electronics Recycling (Vancouver, Washington).
Details are available here.

Business Development Associate, Lifespan Technology Recycling, Inc. (Multiple Locations).
Details are available here.

VP of Business Development, Integrated Communications and Technologies (Malden, Massachusetts).
Details are available here.

Sales Personnel, American Reclamation, Inc. (Los Angeles, California).
Details are available here.

Various, Product Stewardship Institute (Boston, Massachusetts).
Details are available here.

Various Positions Highlighted by the Northern California Recycling Association (Northern California Area).
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, send an email to associate editor Dan Leif at [email protected].