entrance to mohawk carpet pet bottle recycling plant

Entrance to Mohawk Carpet PET Bottle Recycling Plant

Phil Cavin & Post Consumer PET Bottle Bales

Post Consumer PET Bottles

Post Consumer PET Bottles

Polyester fibersfromPost Consumer PET Bottles

Polyester Fiber Bale

Mohawk Carpetproduced fromPost Consumer PET Bottles

Larry Koester & Phil Cavin at Mohawk Carpet

GPEC Tour: Phil Cavin of Mohawk Carpet

Lobby of Sheraton Hotel

GPEC Registration Desk

Mike Montpetit, GPEC Chair Tim Kettering, Environmental Division Chair

Key Note Speaker:

James Kenney,U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,Office of Enforcement

“Vinyl Chloride Emission Reduction Strategies: How U.S. E.P.A Enforcers working with Industry Achieved Results”

Key Note Speaker:

William Carteaux,PresidentSociety of the Plastics Industry (SPI)

“High Energy Costs: The Future of Plastics”

Thank you toWilliam Carteaux

Thank you to Subu, Awards Chair

Environmental Stewardship Award Winners 2006

Anthony Georges of AMUT

Rodrigo Lima of Ciba Specialty Chemicals

Marcia Miller & Bob Whitehouse of Metabolix

Bob Williamson of PP Recyclers Pty Ltd. - Australia

Jeff Galloway of Shaw Industries

Jeffrey Bailey of Soliant

George Abd of Spartech Corporation

Lisa Owen of NatureWorks & John Stoll of Wal-Mart

Dr. Klementina Khait with Student Poster WinnersNapawan Kostiruangchai, Thitisilp Kijchavengkul, Brian Ray

Shalendra Porwal of Battelle

Cynthia Bonner of Battelle

Rod Jackson & Mary Perigo of QTR

Edward Schut of Creafill

Doug Ritchieof Star Plastics

Danielle Montpetit

William CarteauxSociety of the Plastics Industry

Brian Larin, Hewlett-Packard

Dr. Michael FisherAmerican Plastics Council

GPEC 2006 Awards Dinner

Gwen Mathis,GPECConferenceCoordinator