SPI and GIE Media join forces to expand programming and reach of upcoming recycling events

SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association and GIE Media, publisher of Recycling Today, has formed a partnership to co-promote SPI's Re|focus Recycling Summit & Expo and GIE's Paper & Plastics Recycling Conference (PPRC).

The Re|focus Recycling Summit & Expo will be held in Orlando, the US from April 25-27, 2016. PPRC will take place from October 14-16, 2015 in Chicago.

"SPI has made it its mission to move the needle on plastics recycling and pursue the goal of zero waste for the plastics industry and our products," said SPI President and CEO William R. Carteaux. "The only way to do this in a way that has long-lasting, real-world results is by engaging the entire plastics supply chain, and that's exactly why GIE Media makes for a great partner."

By partnering with GIE, SPI will be able to reach recycling and manufacturing professionals through five different GIE media brands, including Recycling Today.

This partnership will enable GIE to leverage SPI's properties in order to attract more plastics professionals interested in post-consumer and post-industrial recovery and processing to PPRC, according to James R. Keefe, Executive Vice President and Group Publisher, GIE Media.

The two-year partnership between SPI and GIE Media means both groups will provide programming for the other, while also assisting with speaking recruitment. Both SPI and GIE will sponsor and exhibit at the other's event as well.