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Building a personal brand can be intimidating. Especially during a time when much of our interactions and activities with others are virtual, there’s a push to connect in authentic, meaningful ways. Melissa Pepper, president of Total Solutions and founder of the nonprofit Lead(h)er, recommended to recyclers the following strategies to develop your personal brand during...

The deadline for ISRI’s Young Executive of the Year Award—an honor that will be conferred virtually at ISRI2021—has been extended from Feb. 26 to March 5. Selection committee members made the decision in light of difficulties caused by recent weather conditions throughout North America. ISRI’s Young Executives Council created the Young Executive of the Year...

Recycling is Green in More Ways than One The U.S. recycling industry is a sophisticated, capital-intensive industry that has been creating “green jobs” in the United States for more than a century. As the essential first link in the manufacturing supply chain, recycling has been integral to state economies through job creation, resource sustainability, energy...

Mark Rannie, Chairman of ISRI’s Tire and Rubber Division and vice president of Baltimore-based Emanuel Tire, submitted comments Feb. 24 on behalf of the Tire and Rubber Division on Maryland’s House Bill 857. The proposed bill was introduced Jan. 29 by Mary A. Lehman of Maryland’s 21st District and referred to the Committees for Environment...

ExxonMobil has joined Agilyx Corp., a chemical recycling company based in Tigard, Ore., to become a founding member of Cyclyx International. Launched by Agilyx in January, Cyclyx aims to increase plastic recycling. Cyclyx will aggregate and preprocess collected plastic to prepare it for further recycling, aiming to meet the technical requirements of recycling processes while...