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MACRO Outreach for the U.S. Recycling Economic Information Study
 The
Mid-America Council of Recycling Officials (MACRO) includes members from fourteen states and works to develop
regionally effective programs and policies in recycling, recycling market development, and source reduction. MACRO
supports the groundbreaking U.S. Recycling Economic Information Study, that measures the economic impact of the
reuse and recycling industry. The study was commissioned by the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency and twenty states, including nine MACRO states, through a cooperative agreement with the National Recycling Coalition.
Results can be downloaded from the National Recycling
Coalition website. Links to state efforts, contact information, and
an outreach toolkit including fact sheets, press releases, and presentations are available on
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Jobs Through Recycling website.
To promote the results, MACRO has developed these public service announcements through a grant from the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency. State market development officials and others at the state and local level are
encouraged to use these interviews and general PSAs (Neighbors, Investment)
in their area. Please contact Kristin Allan at 573.526.5555 or email her
for more information.
Are
there business advantages to recycling? 
Donna Utter, Abitibi Consolidated
Unlimited
uses for recycled products like rubber.
Dick Gust, Lakin General Corporation
Advancements
in recycling in recent years.
Ed Hurley, Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation
New
business opportunities in recycling industry.
Donna Utter, Abitibi Consolidated
New
product development opportunities in recycling.
Dick Gust, Lakin General Corporation
How does your recycling business add value to the local community?
Jim Webber, Sandhill Plastics
Recycling can
result in innovation. Has your company developed any new
technologies?
Larry Schmidt, Nebraska Rubber Innovations, Inc.
What are some of the business advantages of recycling?
Bill Henderson, Plastic Innovations
How would you convince someone that recycling is a viable industry?
Terry
Carroll, Minergy Corporation Darrel
Rollerson, Molded Fiber Technology
What could be done to improve recycling?
Jim Webber, Sandhill Plastics
What is the future of recycling and reuse?
Jack Walters, Tire Shredders Unlimited
Do you think the public fully understands the recycling industry?
Larry Schmidt, Nebraska Rubber Innovations, Inc.
What are some examples that illustrate how well recycling is working?
Terry Carroll, Minergy Corporation
The National Recycling Economic Impact Study found that recycling employs
more than one million people in the U.S. Is this a surprising finding?
Jim Webber, Sandhill Plastics
What
motivated you to be part of the recycling industry?
Larry Schmidt, Nebraska Rubber Innovations, Inc.
Has
your company --as part of the recycling industry-- developed new technologies?
Bill Henderson, Plastic Innovations
Our
thanks to the following recycling professionals:
- Donna
Utter, Abitibi
Consolidated, Kansas City.
Makers of 100% post-consumer newsprint.
- Ed
Hurley, Smurfit-Stone Container
Corporation, St.
Louis. Ranked by Waste News as the 4th
largest recycling company in the nation.
- Dick
Gust, Lakin General Corporation, Chicago, IL.
Recycles car and truck tires.
- Jim Webber, Sandhill Plastics, Kearney Nebraska.
Sandhill processes recycled plastic to make sheeting used as a universal
building material.
- Larry Schmidt, Nebraska Rubber Innovations, Inc.
NRI recycles scrap tires into rubber matting used for playgrounds, walking
trails, golf cart paths and flooring in athletic clubs.
- Bill Henderson, Plastic Innovations. Plastic
Innovations recycles photo film waste for industry leaders like Kodak, by
recycling waste material such as metal and plastic containers into products for
the book binding industry.
- Terry Carroll, Minergy
Corporation. Minergy
converts hard-to-recycle material such as sludge from paper mills... into glass
products.
- Jack Walters, Tire Shredders Unlimited, Lincoln,
Illinois. Tire Shredders Unlimited recycles
4 million tires annually.
- Darrel Rollerson, Molded Fiber
Technology. Molded Fiber has plants in Maine, California and Iowa, that
manufacture custom packaging from recycled paper.
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