Plastics launches Sustainability Advisory Board

Plastics launches Sustainability Advisory Board
<![CDATA[The Plastics Industry Association (Plastics), Washington, has launched a Sustainability Advisory Board that will include members who represent the association’s key councils and committees. 

The goal of the Sustainability Advisory Board, the association says, is to enlist a diverse group of plastics industry professionals to discuss and identify sustainability priorities in the plastics industry, which will inform projects. The Sustainability Advisory Board plans to unveil its top priorities in June at Plastics’ second annual Re|focus Sustainability & Recycling Summit July 27-29 in Orlando, Florida.
 
“Our Sustainability Advisory Board will help to leverage the brightest professionals to collaborate to help move the needle forward for sustainability in the plastics industry,” says Plastics’ newly promoted Vice President of Sustainability Kim Holmes. “We want to have a forward-thinking group with the intention to drive beyond recycling and more broadly approach sustainability as holistically including recovery in addition to recycling.”
 
Further strengthening its sustainability practice, Plastics says it also has welcomed Ashley Hood-Morley as director of sustainability. Hood-Morley has worked at Plastics since 2014 and brings a wealth of industry knowledge and expertise, says the association. Prior to joining Plastics, Hood-Morley worked for Eastman Chemical Co. in Kingsport, Tennessee, where she held a variety of positions, including roles in in new product development, manufacturing technical staff, quality assurance and product stewardship. 
 
“I am thrilled to put my engineering experience and project management skills back to use and think of ways to use applied science more intently when designing products to be recycled and creating technologies that can sort challenging materials,” says Hood-Morley. “Spending the past three years recruiting new members has given me insight into what our members value from our association. I am familiar with the challenges that companies are facing when it comes to designing and implementing sustainability programs at their companies. We intend to provide tools and resources to our members so that they can continue to achieve and, hopefully, outperform their sustainability goals year over year.”
 

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Source: Recycling Today
Plastics launches Sustainability Advisory Board
<![CDATA[The Plastics Industry Association (Plastics), Washington, has launched a Sustainability Advisory Board that will include members who represent the association’s key councils and committees. The goal of the Sustainability Advisory Board, the association says, is to enlist a diverse group of plastics industry professionals to discuss and identify sustainability priorities in the plastics industry, which will inform projects. The Sustainability Advisory Board plans to unveil its top priorities in June at Plastics’ second annual Re|focus Sustainability & Recycling Summit July 27-29 in Orlando, Florida. “Our Sustainability Advisory Board will help to leverage the brightest professionals to collaborate to help move the needle forward for sustainability in the plastics industry,” says Plastics’ newly promoted Vice President of Sustainability Kim Holmes. “We want to have a forward-thinking group with the intention to drive beyond recycling and more broadly approach sustainability as holistically including recovery in addition to recycling.” Further strengthening its sustainability practice, Plastics says it also has welcomed Ashley Hood-Morley as director of sustainability. Hood-Morley has worked at Plastics since 2014 and brings a wealth of industry knowledge and expertise, says the association. Prior to joining Plastics, Hood-Morley worked for Eastman Chemical Co. in Kingsport, Tennessee, where she held a variety of positions, including roles…