<B>Conferences Slated for this Fall</B>

Resource Information Systems Inc. is holding its 15^th Annual North American Forest Products Conference in Boston Oct. 18-20. The program is titled "Forest Products in an Era of Globalization: The Walls Come Tumbling Down?"

Speakers at the conference include David Paterson, vice president of Electronic Commerce for Georgia-Pacific Corp., and Roger Hoffman, Hoffman Group Ltd.

More information on the program may be obtained by contacting RISI at www.resourceinfo.com or contacting Betty Thompson at 4 Alfred Circle, Bedford, MA 01730, fax (781) 271-0337.

The Southwest Public Recycling Association will hold its Recycle 2000! Conference in Santa Fe, N.M. Nov. 30-Dec. 1. More information on the conference may be obtained by calling (800) 523-5002 or going to the SPRA's web site at www.spra-recycling.org.

The South Carolina Recycling Market Development Advisory Council will hold its 5^th Annual Southeast Recycling & Environmental Business Investment Forum Sept. 20 in Charlotte, N.C.

The goal of the forum is to offer expanding recycling companies the opportunity to present their business plans to private investors, venture capitalists, bankers, economic developers and recycling officials.

More information about attending the forum may be obtained by contacting Ted Campbell at (803) 737-0477, e-mail tcampbel@commerce.state.sc.us; Dottie Landry, (803) 737-0239, e-mail dlandry@commerce.state.sc.us, or accessing the web site www.callsouthcarolina.com/recycling.