In This Issue:

1 | Ontario's EPR plan hangs in the balance

The fate of a waste reduction bill in Ontario is up in the air, with municipalities rallying around the measure and conservative members of the provincial legislature opposing it as a "job killer."

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2 | Plastics Recycling 2014: Recycling from single-stream sources

Balancing collection volume with quality is tough, and with single-stream curbside programs on the rise throughout the country, many MRFs and downstream processors are facing new challenges. How do collectors, recycling facilities and plastics processors at all stages of the value chain source, sort, process and sell plastics from single-stream?

With a specific look at single-stream collection and plastics processing in North Carolina and the southeast, Scott Mouw of the North Carolina Division of Environmental Assistance and Outreach, Susan Albritton of Sonoco, and Scott Saunders of KW Plastics will trace the plastics recycling process from curbside comingled collection, to MRF, to plastic recycling facility.

Don't miss Plastics Recycling 2014, to be held March 11-12, 2014, at Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, Florida. For more information, visit www.plasticsrecycling.com.

3 | Scrap exports continue decline through Q3 2013

As we get caught up on export data delayed from the fall 2013 government shutdown, the export of all scrap materials continued to see declines through the first three quarters of 2013.

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4 | Tulsa doubles revenue predictions in first year of single-stream

Officials in Tulsa, Oklahoma recently announced the city's single-stream recycling collection program brought in twice the revenue they expected it to generate in its first year, and they're attributing the success to area residents simply being "ready to recycle."

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5 | Industry leaders assess ideas on expanding municipal recycling

More than 100 key executives from industry and government convened in Atlanta for two days last week to discuss how to push municipal recycling levels upward. The symposium was sponsored by the Southeast Recycling Development Council under a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region IV.

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6 | North Carolina airport recycling center faces hurdles

An airport recycling and composting program in North Carolina, once thought to be in a league of its own, is still trying to get off the ground more than a year after opening.

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7 | Analyst predicts recovered par price increase over next two years

A widely respected recycling market analyst says the value of old corrugated containers will grow more than 40 percent between now and the end of 2015.

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8 | Joint-venture glass container facility opens in Oregon

Glass to Glass, a glass container processing facility, is up and running in Portland, Oregon.

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9 | NewsBits

Novelis is betting the automotive demand for recycled aluminum is ready to rise significantly. Head to Newsbits to see that story and to find out which U.S. territory is set to implement a bottle bill.

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10 | Industry & supplier news

The National Waste & Recycling Association has launched an environmental journalism contest for high school students interested in sustainability issues. The "Raise Your Green Point Average" contest is intended to encourage budding young journalists who may aspire to cover environmental issues as a career. Participants must answer one of two waste-and-recycling-themed questions via online submissions to be eligible for cash prizes. The contest is underway and will culminate in February with a public voting period on selected finalists. More information can be found here.

The Product Policy Institute announced that the organization has adopted UPSTREAM as its new name. "After ten years as the Product Policy Institute, today marks an exciting new chapter for our organization," said Mark Hays, Board President of UPSTREAM. "As UPSTREAM, we are committed to building a more sustainable economy by engaging more Americans in upstream solutions to our nation's most pressing environmental issues." For more, go to upstreampolicy.org.

11 | Requests for proposals

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is requesting proposals to conduct an assessment of the environmental impacts of four methods of source-separated food waste management (aerobic composting, anaerobic digestion, sink-disposed sewer treatment, and landfill). To view or download the entire solicitation, vendors must be registered in ORPIN. For access to the ORPIN system, go to orpin.oregon.gov/open.dll/welcome. The number for this solicitation in ORPIN is DEQ-1181-13.

12 | 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.

13 | Jobs available & sought

Environmental Scientist, State of Delaware (Dover, Delaware).
Details are available here.

Grants and Loans Business Lead, Washington Department of Ecology (Lacey, Washington).
Details are available here.

Solid Waste Director, Outagamie County (Appleton, Wisconsin).
Details are available here.

Washington Coordinator, Northwest Product Stewardship Council (Seattle, Washington).
Details are available here.

Solid Waste Director, Mecklenburg County (Charlotte, North Carolina).
Details are available here (search using "solid waste" as keyword).

Education & Outreach Coordinator, Santa Fe Solid Waste Management Agency (Santa Fe, New Mexico).
Details are available here.

Marketing Manager, Resource Recycling Systems (Ann Arbor, Michigan or telecommute).
Details are available here.

Market Development Specialist, U.S. Composting Council (Location flexible).
Details are available here.

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

VP of Sales and Marketing, CP Group (San Diego, California).
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, Newark Recycled Paperboard Solutions (National).
Details are available here.

Various Sales Positions, Waste Management (National).
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].