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The State of Recycling, September 20, 2007
JERRY POWELL, Editor and Publisher of Resource Recycling, Inc., Portland, Oregon provides a Recycling 101 primer.
- State of the state of recycling nationally
- Current state of the plastics, paper and metal markets
- Trends in curbside collection
Speaker Bio
Jerry Powell is the owner and publisher of two magazines and a newsletter (Resource Recycling, Plastics Recycling Update and E-Scrap News). He edits Resource Recycling. In addition, he aids in the management of two annual conferences, The E-Scrap Conference and Exhibition, and The Plastics Recycling Conference and Exhibition.
Previously Jerry founded and managed a recycling consulting firm for a decade and founded and managed a recycling business in Portland, Oregon for more than eight years.
He is a past three-time chair of the board of the National Recycling Coalition and the three-time chair of the board of a state recycling association. He has spoken on waste management and recycling issues in 46 states and five Canadian provinces.
Presentation - Recycling 101: Status, Markets and Trends (PDF) (47 pp, 289K, About PDF)