The Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Recycling Markets Center this week announced the appointment of Robert J. Bylone Jr. as executive director for the RMC.

Since October 2005, when Bylone began at the RMC as Recycling Program Manager, he has developed relationships with many technical assistance partners; state-wide, domestically, and internationally. Likewise, Bylone has initiated markets development activity in glass recovery options, food residuals management, plastics recovery, and tire derived products.

Before joining the RMC, Bylone was employed in the Penn State Harrisburg Environmental Training Center as a researcher and instructor on water and wastewater operations.

Prior to employment at Penn State Harrisburg, Bylone gained experience in county government, industry, and consulting, serving briefly as the Schuylkill County Recycling/ Environmental Coordinator, Copperhead Chemical Company, as a project/environmental, health, and safety engineer, and at Junkins Engineering as a project engineer, with industrial environmental experience in 18 different states and over 20 types of industry.

Bylone holds Masters and Bachelors degrees in Environmental Engineering from Penn State and is registered as a US Green Building Council LEED Accredited Professional, an ISO 14000 Environmental Management Systems Provisional Auditor, and as a Professional Recyclers of Pennsylvania Certified Recycling Professional with subclass certification in collection systems. He also serves as the organics committee chair for PROP.

For more information visit the Recycling Market Center’s website or call 717-948-6660.

3/9/2007