Save the National Recycling Coalition!

We, the undersigned, urge all National Recycling Coalition (NRC) members to VOTE NO to the proposed KAB takeover of the NRC!

We urge you to join the long list of recycling advocates including NRC Co-founders, past NRC Board Members, and past NRC Presidents who oppose the KAB takeover.

We support the open letter from the Save the NRC Coalition to NRC Members as posted at www.SaveTheNRC.org.

We invite you to endorse our open letter and to show your support for the future of recycling and sustainability in the United States by adding your name to this petition.

Sincerely,

Peter Anderson, RecycleWorlds Consulting Corp. and former NRC Board member and former NRC Policy Committee Chair

Steve Apotheker, Senior Recycling Planner, Sustainability Center, Metro, Portland, OR, former NRC Board member, and recipient of two NRC Recycler of the Year awards

Mick Barry, Member of NRC, Iowa, Michigan and Colorado State Recycling Associations, Former NRC Vice-President and Treasurer, former NRC Board member

Victor Bell, President, Environmental Packaging International, former NRC Board member

Paul Braasch, Director, Adams-Clermont Solid Waste District (Ohio), former NRC Board member and NRC Conference Committee Chair

Gretchen Brewer, Massachusetts, NRC member 1982-2005, Congress volunteer/presenter 1983-89

Tim Brownell, President/Chief Operating Officer, Eureka Recycling, Minneapolis, MN, and former NRC Board Member

Clifford Case, Founder of NRC and NRC Past President

Maggie Clarke, Ph.D., Maggie Clarke Environmental, NRC member and Chair, Municipal and Medical Waste Management Division, Air & Waste Management Association, and former NRC Source Reduction Council member

Dominick DAltilio, President, Association of New Jersey Recyclers

John Davis, Administrator, Mojave Desert and Mountain Recycling Authority, CA and former President, California Resource Recovery Association

Resa Dimino, New York, former member NRC Policy Committee and Steering Committee of NRC Non-profit council

Laura Dubester, Co-director, Center for Ecological Technology, NRC Non-profit Recyclers Council, NRC Congresses: past presenter/panel moderator, former member NRC

Sherry A. Enzler, former Executive Director, Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance and Research Fellow, Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota

Floyd D. Flexon, President and CEO, Plastic Environmental Technology LLC

Pat Franklin, former Executive Director of Container Recycling Institute and former NRC Board member

Margaret A. Gainer, Founder, Gainer & Associates and Center for Environmental Economic Development, Former NRC Board member and NRC Executive Committee member

Jenny Gitlitz, Director of Environmental Assessment, Green Depot; and Former Research Director, Container Recycling Institute.

Dale Gubbels, CEO, Firstar Fiber, Inc., NRC Past President

Susan Hubbard, Eureka Recycling and NRC Past President

Carl R. Hursh, Pennsylvania

Amy Jo Labi-Carando, former Director of Lawrence County Recycling/Solid Waste Department (retired), former NRC Vice-President, former Co-Chair of NRC Board Development Committee

Delyn Kies, Principal, Kies Strategies, former Board Chair, former Board Member and served on many Board committees

Susan Kinsella, Executive Director, Conservatree, San Francisco, CA, former NRC Board Member and ExecutiveCommittee Member

Marie Kruzan, Executive Director, Association of New Jersey Recyclers

Gary Liss, President, Gary Liss & Associates, one of the founding Board members of the NRC in 1978 (referred by Sierra Club) and NRC Past President

Mark Lichtenstein, Syracuse Center for Excellence and NRC Past President

Mark Loughmiller, Executive Director, Arcata Community Recycling Center, former NRC Board member, authored original RO Affiliation Agreement and served on many NRC Committees

David Muchnick, Principal, Sustainable Enterprise, NY, NY, former NRC Board member, former member NRC Recycling Advisory Committee

Brooke Nash, Massachusetts

Pete Pasterz, Waste Reduction Coordinator, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, former NRC Board member, former NRC Vice President, former Chair of College and University Recycling Council (CURC) Steering Committee, and former Co-Chair of NRC Non-Profit Council

Amy Perlmutter, Principal, Perlmutter Associates, former NRC Board member, NRC Executive Committee member and Board Development Co-Chair, and former Chair of Boston National Recycling Congress

Brenda Platt, Co-director, Institute for Local Self Reliance

Jerry Powell, Publisher, Resource Recycling Magazine, and former NRC Board Chair

Maurice M. Sampson II, President, Niche Recycling, Inc, Chair, Recycle NOW Campaign, a project of the Recycling Alliance of Philadelphia

Pat Scanlon, President, Scanlon Associates, former NRC Board member

Neil Seldman, President, Institute for Local Self Reliance, former NRC Board Member and founder

Alan Silverstein, Co-director, Center for Ecological Technology: Co-Chair 11th National Recycling Congress (Boston), Co-Chair Non-Profit Recyclers Council

Tanis G. Skislak, former (and first) Recycling Coordinator, Fairfax Co, VA, former NRC Board Member
Lisa A. Skumatz, Ph.D., Principal, Skumatz Economic Research Associates, Inc. (SERA), former NRC board member, officer, and chair, NRC Awards Committee

Coy Smith, CEO Novato Chamber of Commerce, Chair of 1990 San Diego National Recycling Congress, Former NRC Board member and Chair NRC Board Development Committee

Mary Tkach, Past board member and Executive Committee member, Co-Founder, Recycling to Build Community, Non-profit Recyclers Council member

Bruce Walker, City of Portland, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, Solid Waste & Recycling Program

Tedd Ward, M.S., Program Manager, Del Norte Solid Waste Management Authority

Cat Wilt, Director of Policy, Center for Clean Products, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, NRC Past President & former NRC Board member

Rick Winterhalter, Chair of the Board, Association of Oregon Recyclers

Bob Hollis, Principal, Carnegie Partners, LLC, The Mobius Network, LLC, RecyclingJobs.com, Advisor and former Board Member, California Resource Recovery Association, NRC member