Recycling Today Media Group launches Paper and Plastics Recycling Conference webinar series

For professionals in the paper and plastics recycling industry, staying informed about key trends, market developments and emerging technologies driving the sector forward is more essential than ever.

While Recycling Today Media Group hosts the Paper and Plastics Recycling Conference (PPRC) annually, we’re launching the PPRC Lunch & Learn Webinar Series to bring those developments to you on a more consistent basis. Designed for brokers, traders, processors, consumers, suppliers and others involved in handling paper and plastics for recycling, each quarterly webinar will deliver timely insights from industry experts, providing attendees with best practices and actionable takeaways they can apply to their operations.

“We’re excited about extending the PPRC brand to a year-round opportunity to share business intelligence and market insights with our readers,” Jim Keefe, group publisher of the Recycling Today Media Group, says.

2026 PPRC Lunch & Learn Webinar Series Schedule

Vertical Integration for Plastics Recyclers

April 23 | noon - 1 p.m. ET

As markets continue to grow more volatile, some plastics recyclers are shifting to develop products in-house. This webinar explores what they’re making, how and why they’re doing it and the equipment, space, staff and testing needed to make vertical integration work successfully throughout operations.

Reimagining Paper Mills

July 16 | noon - 1 p.m. ET

Major paper and packaging producers are investing in new mills and advanced technologies to enhance production and meet changing fiber demand. This webinar explores the scale, equipment and strategy behind these new projects.

Film Plastics: Effective Recovery and Management Strategies

Sept. 17 | noon - 1 p.m. ET

Today's material recovery facilities attempt to remove plastic film to keep it from becoming a nuisance and hindering operations, but is this a missed opportunity? This webinar explores the effectiveness of current film removal strategies and whether film could become a valuable, marketable material in the future.

Box Demand and OCC/Mixed Paper Market Outlook

Dec. 10 | noon - 1 p.m. ET

Box demand is one of the greatest indicators of the old corrugated containers (OCC) market landscape. This webinar dives into what the demand scenario looks like in the containerboard industry and the outlook for OCC and mixed paper markets.

Learn more and register at www.paperplasticsrecyclingconference.com/page/webinar-series.

About the Recycling Today Media Group

Recycling Today was founded in 1963 as Secondary Raw Materials magazine. Since then, the single brand has grown into a group of magazines, websites, e-newsletters, events and exhibitions and industry databases. They combine to form the Recycling Today Media Group, which provides uniquely comprehensive coverage of the recycled materials and environmental services industries.

The group’s media brands include Recycling Today, Waste Today, Recycling Today Global Report, Construction & Demolition Recycling, Plastics Recycling and Scrap Recycling. Its events include the Battery and Universal Waste Recycling Conference, Organics Recycling Conference, Paper and Plastics Recycling Conference, MRF Operations Forum, Scrap Expo and Waste Today’s Corporate Growth Conference.

The group is a business unit of GIE Media Inc., a leading business-to-business media company based in Valley View, Ohio.