Washington-based Ag Container Recycling Council (ACRC).Ron Perkins is named to the newly created position of executive director of the Washington-based Ag Container Recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. Council (ACRC ACRC Advanced Cisco Router Configuration ACRC Asthma Clinical Research Center ACRC American Civil Rights Coalition ACRC Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) ). The ACRC is a non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. that collects and recycles plastic pesticide pesticide, biological, physical, or chemical agent used to kill plants or animals that are harmful to people; in practice, the term pesticide is often applied only to chemical agents. containers from U.S. farmers and applicators, mostly free of charge. To date, the ACRC has recycled more than 100 million pesticide containers nationwide. Prior to joining ACRC, Perkins spent 14 years as the owner and operator of solid waste management firms, implementing innovative and cost-effective refuse and recyclables collection systems. He also spent almost ten years as director of Recycling Operations at American Plastic Council (APC (1) (American Power Conversion Corporation, West Kingston, RI, www.apcc.com) The leading manufacturer of UPS systems and surge suppressors, founded in 1981 by Rodger Dowdell, Neil Rasmussen and Emanual Landsman, three electronic power engineers who had worked at MIT. ). Also the organization announces the launch of its new Web site: www.acrecycle.org. The redesigned Web site is intended as a comprehensive resource for ag container recycling and includes detailed information on how to recycle and best practices for recycling as well as a breakdown of the entire process from collection of containers to the development of various end use products. |
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