Myles Cohen Named Recipient of ReMA PSI Chapter Lifetime Achievement Award

The Lead: Myles Cohen has been named the next recipient of the ReMA Paper Stock Industries (PSI) chapter’s Lifetime Achievement Award in memory of Phil Alpert. Cohen will receive the award Oct. 28, during the Paper and Plastics Recycling Conference (PPRC) in Chicago.

The Spotlight: Cohen is founder and managing director of Circular Ventures LLC and board member of VIPA USA. His career in recycling began in 2006 when Sonoco Products Co., which he joined in 2004 as a vice president, asked him to become president of its recycling division.

In 2008, Pratt Industries hired him to serve as president of Pratt Recycling, a position that involved overseeing the company’s network of recycling plants and materials recovery facilities (MRFs) throughout the U.S. as well as directing the sourcing for Pratt’s 100 percent recycled paper mills.

In 2021, Cohen founded a consultancy named Circular Ventures LLC, and that same year he was named to the board of VIPA USA.

Throughout his career, Cohen has been an active member and leader in ISRI (now ReMA) as well as the association’s PSI Chapter. He served as PSI Chapter President from 2016-18, a position that also earned him a seat on then-ISRI’s national board of directors as well as its Council of Chapter Presidents. He also served on ISRI’s Executive Committee with the elected national officers of ISRI from 2018 to 2020, and he was instrumental in the creation of a MRF Committee within ISRI/ReMA.

Thanks to his career achievements, the New Jersey Paper Recycling Association honored Cohen with its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019.