WASTE & RECYCLING NEWS LAUNCHES
CORPORATE RECYCLING & WASTE CONFERENCE
– PARTNERS WITH REPUBLIC SERVICES INC.

AKRON, OHIO – August 12, 2010 – Waste & Recycling News, the leading news source for environmental management, is launching a new world-class business conference. The 2011 Corporate Recycling & Waste Conference (CRWC) is scheduled for Sept. 27-29, 2011, at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Orlando, Fla.

The conference focuses on how business executives can advance their organizations’ sustainability issues while controlling expenses and maximizing profits. Republic Services Inc. is the co-organizer of the CRWC. Republic Services is a national leader in recycling and solid waste management with units that serve industrial, commercial and residential customers.

The Corporate Recycling & Waste Conference will feature speakers from general businesses, the environmental management sector and government. These speakers will provide attendees with a better understanding of how they can improve the management of their companies’ waste streams and recyclables. Attendees will walk away with knowledge and techniques that they can immediately deploy to make their business more sustainable with a focus on bottom-line results. In addition to speakers and presentations, this event will provide high-energy networking forums and a table-top exhibit area to give attendees personal exposure to peers and colleagues.

“Our community of corporate business readers, that we served for years, now has a place to go to meet face-to-face and discuss the issues that keep them up at night,” said Bob Simmons, publisher of Waste & Recycling News and founder of the CRWC. “We are pleased to be working with Republic Services again. Republic’s experience working on green business issues with national companies brings a high level of expertise to this event.”

Lang Herndon, vice president, national accounts, of Republic Services, will serve as conference chairman for the CRWC. Individuals interested in speaking at the conference should contact Herndon.

“All across the United States, we are working with businesses and corporations that are striving to be more sustainable,” said Jim O’Connor, Chairman and CEO of Republic Services, Inc.  "As co-organizers of the Corporate Recycling and Waste Conference, our goal is to bring together ideas, best practices, tools and new technology that will help attendees achieve their desired level of sustainability by better management of their wastes and recyclables.”

The Corporate Recycling & Waste Conference will bring together environmental executives from Fortune 1000 firms, procurement managers, sustainability officers, business owners, policymakers, commodity managers, waste handlers, recyclers, equipment makers, operations managers at recycling and waste facilities, regulators, packaging experts, attorneys, consultants, educators and advocates.

Additional details, including pre-registration, agenda and conference website, will be available soon. Companies interested in exhibit space and sponsorships should contact Waste & Recycling News.

Contacts:                                                                               

Sponsorships & Logistics                                       
Brennan Lafferty

blafferty@crain.com                     
Event Project Manager                                          
Corporate Recycling & Waste Conference 

Speakers & Papers                                                        

Lang Herndon

lherndon@republicservices.com

Vice President, National Accounts

Republic Services Inc.

480-627-2342

About Republic Services Inc. -- Republic Services Inc. is a leading provider of services in the domestic, non-hazardous solid waste industry based in Phoenix. It provides non-hazardous solid waste collection services for commercial, industrial, municipal, and residential customers through 400 collection companies in 40 states and Puerto Rico. Republic also owns or operates 242 transfer stations, 213 solid waste landfills and 79 recycling facilities. Republic serves millions of residential customers under terms of contracts with more than 3,000 municipalities for waste collection and residential services. For more details visit: www.republicservices.com.

About Waste & Recycling News -- Waste & Recycling News is a Crain Communications Inc. news organization based in Akron, Ohio. Through its biweekly newspaper, events, website and e-newsletters, it reports on environmental management, specifically solid and hazardous waste, recycling and scrap materials. The newspaper is edited for and circulated to businesses and organizations involved in the recycling, disposal, collection, transportation and the generation and processing of waste. Waste & Recycling News is audited by BPA and has 45,000 print subscribers. For more details visit: www.wasterecyclingnews.com

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