Southeast Recycling Conference Announces 2007 Dates

The 20^th Annual Southeast Recycling Conference & Trade Show (SERC) will be March 11-14, 2007, at the Perdido Beach Resort in Orange Beach, Ala.

Presentations will touch on the following topics:

• Recovering more recyclables;
• Funding solid waste and recycling services;
• Pay-as-you-throw;
• Recovered material market updates and prices;
• Single-stream collection and recycling;
• Organics recycling;
• Waste-to-fuel;
• Recycling technology advances;
• Social marketing and its affect on recycling program participation; and
• Markets and collection techniques for nontraditional recyclables.

SERC has also issued a call for papers, exhibitors and sponsors. Those interested should contact Gene Jones at (800) 441-7949 or at gene@swix.ws for further details.

Additionally, in honor of Martha McInnis and her 20 years of work in support of SERC, the show’s new organizer and sponsor the Solid Waste Information Exchange Inc. (SWIX) based in Tallahassee, Fla., will provide 10 student registration scholarships in McInnis’s name to college students who have shown outstanding efforts in waste reduction, recycling and reuse of recycled products. Application forms are available at http://www.southeastrecycling.com/Form_Sponsorship.pdf.

Additional information on the 2007 Southeast Recycling Conference is available at www.southeastrecycling.com.