NERC officers elected, ex officio board members re-elected

Northeast Recycling Council (NERC), Brattleboro, Vermont, has announced it has elected a slate of new board members for the next fiscal year

Kaley Laleker, Maryland Department of the Environment, Baltimore, steps up as president of the board, having previously served as vice president. Laleker is the deputy director of the Land and Materials Administration, which includes solid waste, resource management, oil control, lead poisoning prevention, mining and land restoration programs.

New to the executive officers is Megan Pryor, Maine Department of Environmental Protection (Maine DEP), Augusta, Maine, who will serve as vice president. Pryor is an environmental specialist with Maine DEP, where she oversees and administers the paint, mercury thermostat and mercury lamp product stewardship programs. 

Richard Watson, chief executive of Delaware Solid Waste Authority (DSWA) Dover, Delaware, will continue as treasurer. DSWA is responsible for managing all municipal solid waste, recycling, household hazardous waste, electronic waste and other special waste programs for the entire state of Delaware. Watson has served as treasurer, vice president and president of NERC in the recent past.

Ex officio board members, Chaz Miller and Walter J. “Chip” Foley, have been re-elected to one-year terms on the NERC board.  This will be their fourth year of serving on the board.

Miller, an award-winning columnist, has held various waste and recycling-related jobs. He has been a keynoter and speaker at recycling and solid waste conferences in the U.S., Canada, Japan and China.  

Foley has held various leadership positions in public policy and has served as an advisory member of the NERC.

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NERC is a multistate nonprofit organization that says it is committed to environmental and economic sustainability through responsible solid waste management. Its programs emphasize source reduction, reuse, recycling, composting, environmentally preferable purchasing and decreasing the toxicity of the solid waste stream in the 11-state region comprising Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont.