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Name
Robert Peoples
Title
Executive Director, Carpet America Recovery Effort
Bio
Robert Peoples, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Carpet American Recovery Effort (CARE). Prior to joining CARE, he was Director of the ACS Green Chemistry Institute in Washington, D.C. Dr. Peoples spent 23 years with Monsanto and its spinoff Solutia as Director of Nylon Technology. Dr. Peoples has over seen the growth of the CARE organization from its beginning in January 2002 to what is today a $35M operational enterprise. Dr. Peoples holds a PhD in physical organic chemistry from Purdue University. He has served on numerous Boards including on California's Green Ribbon Science Panel.
Carpet Stewardship - Successes and Challenges
Bob Peoples will talk about the progress and challenges associated with implementing recycling initiative for hard to recycle materials, with a focus on carpet. Bob will specifically discuss what it takes to build a collection infrastructure to support processing and conversion into new products. He will also discuss residual materials with little or no value in the recycle stream and touch on the development of sophisticated models to aid establishing appropriate subsidies
Carpet Stewardship - Successes and Challenges
Bob Peoples will talk about the progress and challenges associated with implementing recycling initiative for hard to recycle materials, with a focus on carpet. Bob will specifically discuss what it takes to build a collection infrastructure to support processing and conversion into new products. He will also discuss residual materials with little or no value in the recycle stream and touch on the development of sophisticated models to aid establishing appropriate subsidies
