The Pennsylvania Recycling Markets Center Friday announced a partnership with Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful and the Pennsylvania Waste Industries Association to launch the Recycling Works!” Exhibit at The State Museum of Pennsylvania, located in Harrisburg.

A ribbon cutting and press conference, which will feature opening remarks from Acting Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Chris Abruzzo, will take place on November 14 starting at 11:45 a.m. and celebrate Pennsylvania’s economic development achievements through recycling.

The Recycling Works! Exhibit is being created and developed by a team led by the Pennsylvania Recycling Markets Center.

Recycling Works! is a vast display of Pennsylvania manufactured recycled content products; the history of recycled content product manufacturing and grassroots recycling in Pennsylvania; and advancements of recycling technology including Single Stream Recycling.

The Exhibit will be on display from America Recycles Day, November 15 through early January 2014.

“This is an opportunity to realize how you contribute to a green Pennsylvania economy day-to-day, by supporting Pennsylvania jobs – a friend’s or family member’s job – through your recycling actions,” offered Robert J. Bylone, Jr., RMC Executive Director. “Recycling works and we invite you to The State Museum of Pennsylvania. Learn about products made in Pennsylvania because of your recycling efforts.”

Holiday Recycling Learning Lunch Dec. 12

As part of Recycling Works!, the Professional Recyclers of Pennsylvania will deliver a learning lunch at The State Museum of Pennsylvania on December 12, starting at 11:45 a.m. The program, entitled “Finding Holiday Greens through Recycling,” is a public seminar on recycling as part of the holidays.

Recycling means business in Pennsylvania, as a 2009 recycling economic study commissioned by the Northeast Recycling Council estimates Pennsylvania has approximately 3,800 recycling and reuse establishments, 52,000 recycling and reuse jobs, $21 billion in annual sales receipts and $2 billion in annual payroll.

10/28/2013