Paper recycling is focus of 2 January webinars

Those in the recovered paper industry are the intended audience for two webinars in January.

Members of the Washington-based Recycled Materials Association (ReMA) and its Paper Stock Industries (PSI) Chapter can register for a free webinar Jan. 15, “Paper Industry Update Fireside Chat.” Then, Jan. 23, Recycling Today presents a webinar moderated by a veteran recovered fiber trader focused on transportation and shipping topics.

The Jan. 15 ReMA webinar has been organized in cooperation with Davis Index, a business information services company that initially focused on recycled metals and has started to offer recovered paper pricing indices.

The Paper Industry Update Fireside Chat is scheduled to run from noon until 1:15 p.m. Eastern and will be moderated by paper recycling veteran and former PSI President Johnny Gold.

Gold will be joined by five scheduled speakers: Ryan Fox, corrugated market analyst at news and information Bloomberg Intelligence; Ed Tucciarone, a recycling sector veteran who serves as a board director with Atlanta-based Graphic Packaging International Inc.; Myles Cohen, an industry veteran who serves as CEO of Circular Ventures LLC; Jason Pelz, vice president at packaging producer Tetrapak who also serves with the Carton Council; and Jeff Rice of global trading firm CellMark Recycling.

Among topics to be covered, Tucciarone will provide an update on Graphic Packaging’s new mill in Waco, Texas, while Rice will provide an overview of recent and expected recovered paper export trends. Cohen will focus on old corrugated container (OCC) recycling rate calculations, and Fox will discuss corrugated box demand metrics developed and used by Bloomberg.

The Jan. 23 webinar organized by Recycling Today will focus more narrowly on freight and transportation-related disruptions and how to prepare for them.

The free informational event features four transportation and recycling sector professionals: Carl Bentzel, formerly of the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC); Robyn Lyons of Maersk; Karyn Booth of law firm Thompson Hine LLP (who focuses on transportation law and policy), and; Nini Krever of Wilmington Paper Corp. and PSI.

According to Recycling Today, virtual attendees of the “PPRC Webinar: Transportation and Logistics” can expect to “gain critical insights into the evolving transportation, logistics and recycling landscape.”

In her legal work, speaker Booth has been at the forefront of major policy proceedings before federal transportation agencies, including the FMC and Congress.

Bentzel, meanwhile, served as an FMC commissioner from 2019 to 2024 and has worked on the staffs of members of Congress. Lyons joined Maersk in 2016 and now serves as a head of strategic commodities, a sales and support position that entails her working with recycled materials firms that ship globally.

Krever handles domestic and export paper transactions with New Jersey-based Wilmington Paper. She also has been involved for decades with the PSI and served as its president from 1999 to 2001.