Schedule
The schedule is set. All that is missing is you! Check out the ISRI2022 preliminary schedule.
SREA Subcommittee
This meeting is open to all ISRI members.
One ISRI Meeting
By invite only.
Board of Directors
This meeting is open to all ISRI members.
Council of Chapter Presidents
This meeting is open to all ISRI members.
Design For Recycling Task Force (DFR)
This meeting is open to all ISRI members.
Equipment and Service Providers Council
This meeting is open to all ISRI members.
New Mothers’ Lounge
Convention Committee
This meeting is open to all ISRI members.
Safe Operations Committee - Including COSE, Fire, Airbag
This meeting is open to all ISRI members.
Ferrous Division - Including Shredders
This meeting is open to all ISRI members.
Nonferrous Division
This meeting is open to all ISRI members.
Tire & Rubber Division
This meeting is open to all ISRI members.
Plastics Division
This meeting is open to all ISRI members.
Membership Committee
This meeting is open to all ISRI members.
MRF Committee
This meeting is open to all ISRI members.
Electronics Division
This meeting is open to all ISRI members.
Paper Division
This meeting is open to all ISRI members.
Trade Committee
This meeting is open to all ISRI members.
ISRI Resources
This is a closed session.
Audit Committee
This is a closed session.
New Mothers’ Lounge
Communications Committee
This meeting is open to all ISRI members.
ISRI Services Corp. - RIOS Board
This meeting is open to all ISRI members.
Government Relations Committee
This meeting is open to all ISRI members.
Education and Training Committee
This meeting is open to all ISRI members.
Finance Committee - Including Investment
This meeting is open to all ISRI members.
ISRI Board of Directors
This meeting is open to all ISRI members.
Final Exhibit Safety Inspection
First-Time Attendees Welcome and Orientation
ISRI extends a warm welcome to the first-time attendees at this year’s convention! Please join us at the First-Time Attendee Welcome and Orientation. Meet other first-time attendees and learn how to get the most out of your convention experience
ISRI Fun Run
This is an informal event for those who like to start their morning with a little exercise. Meet your fellow joggers in the Mandalay Bay Lobby at 6:00 a.m. for a quick jog down to the “Welcome to Las Vegas” sign and back (approx. 1.75 miles). Serious runners can extend their trek if they’d like.
Registered attendees receive a free t-shirt while supplies last. Register today!
Breakfast in the ISRI Café
Details coming soon.
Opening General Session – Words Matter: Connecting with Your Audience
The words we use shape people’s perception—whether we’re talking about ourselves, our business, or our industry. The key to understanding perception is knowing your audience, including customers, the local community, potential business partners, or all the above. We have brought back language experts from maslansky+partners, who spoke to us in 2012, to provide insights into how the right words can help change behavior and drive business results.
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ISRI Members-Only Lounge
Located on the exhibit hall floor directly behind the ISRI booth, the members-only lounge provides exclusive access for ISRI members to meet in a more private and relaxed environment. Come grab a cup of coffee anytime the exhibit hall is open, relax with a drink during one of the exclusive happy hours, or simply temporarily escape the excitement of the exhibit hall floor and catch up on sports or news on the big screen.
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ISRI Member Services Pavilion
Details coming soon.
Exhibit Hall
Welcome to the largest concentration of recycling industry equipment and service providers in the world. The hall features over 250 vendors covering every facet of the industry... Discover new and exciting opportunities to take your business to the next level.
Data Destruction Trends for ITAD
From cellphones to automobiles, a growing number of sources are collecting personal data. With the rollout of 5G, more devices and products will exchange data to provide improved interface experiences, new services, customer conveniences, and improved safety. Governments are responding by passing laws and regulations to require complete data destruction to protect sensitive consumer data. Learn how to set your operation up for success in this new data landscape.
Spotlight on Ferrous: An Industry in Transition
Industry consolidation is reshaping the domestic ferrous and steel market structure. Learn about the key drivers for iron and steel recycling, including the outlook for additional integration, domestic steel mill capacity expansion plans, the rising trend in the global use of recycled metal and much more!
Transportation for Just for Fun
Pizza Lab
Ohio Caucus
Details coming soon.
Just for Fun Program: Pizza Lab
Join us at Eataly's La Pizza & La Pasta Restaurant, where we will give you the tools to create Eataly's delicious, Neapolitan-style pizza in our own wood-fired oven! Transport your taste buds to the city of Naples, the birthplace of pizza. An expert pizza maker will host this pizza workshop right in Eataly's La Pizza e La Pasta Restaurant, instructing you how to make pizza dough from scratch. In these intimate workshops, you will not only get to make your own dough but will also get to top your own pizzas to enjoy. A pizzaioli will fire your creations right before your eyes in Eataly’s wood-burning golden ovens, imported from Italy and assembled brick by brick in our pizza restaurant. Pizza-making secrets will be unveiled while you enjoy a glass of wine, an appetizer and indulge in your own homemade pizza! The class will be complete with adapted recipes and tasting notes as well as fresh pizza dough to take home!
Safety: Preventing Closed Container Explosions at Steel Mills and Foundries – What Ferrous Suppliers Need to Know
Hear from a steel mill melt shop manager, a ferrous broker, a recycling operations manager, and a recycling safety professional about the hazards of closed containers at a melt shop and how to prepare, inspect, and ship recyclables to avoid creating a hazard in the facility and at the receiving furnace. The session will include videos and sample policies.
Spotlight on Electronics: Emerging Trends in Electronics Recycling and ITAD
Electronics market factors – including new technology and sharply increased global volume – are being felt around the world. Further pressure from manufacturer and brand sustainability goals, increased restrictions on reselling consumer electronics, and the need for international standards are also creating a challenging landscape. Hear the latest information and join a discussion about how to respond and adapt to this fast-changing environment.
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Chemical Recycling: A Solution or a Rival?
For the past few years, concern about plastics in the environment has been a dominant theme. Improving the recycling rate is critical to prevent plastics from entering the environment. Mechanical methods are in wide commercial use, but they are feasible only for certain types of plastics. Chemical methods have been proposed as complementary (if not competing) approaches to managing supplies of used plastics. Gain a better perspective on chemical recycling and its potential and implications for plastics recycling.
How Can ISRI Help in a Crisis
ISRI has resources to help you when a crisis strikes. Come learn about member resources that can be tailored for you to use with the media, community leaders and other decision maker audiences.
Sessions on the Show floor
Do You Need a Common Sense Approach to Fire Prevention?
Why do we have a fire prevention plan? If your first answer is that OSHA requires it, you need a more common-sense approach. If you check your extinguishers or keep your exits clear to appease the local fire department, you need a more common-sense fire approach. If you do your fire training because it came up on the calendar, you need a more common-sense approach. If you don’t know your local firefighters by name, you could use a more common-sense approach to fire prevention.
Spotlight on Nickel/Stainless: Focus on Future Demand
Stainless steel recyclers continue to face a range of challenges including volatile raw material input prices, transportation bottlenecks, and a shifting global landscape. As the global economy continues to recover in 2022, learn about expected sources of demand growth for recycled stainless steel both in the United States and in key export markets around the world.
Spotlight on Plastics: Recycled Content, EPR, and Market Conditions
Learn the current increasing supply and demand trends for recycled plastics and how this will impact the industry moving forward. Extended producer responsibility (EPR), recycled content legislation, and international changes for imports, aimed largely at post-consumer plastics packaging, continue to affect the industry. Gain the perspective you need to stay ahead of the trends.
ANSI/ASME B30.25 Subcommittee
Navigating the Turbulent Ocean of International Shipping
Understanding international shipping as well as its associated nuances can be challenging. Suppliers, traders, and buyers are not always completely aware of the various procedures involved in shipping. Gain a better sense of shipping to augment and improve your operations, especially as it gets more turbulent by the day.
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Back to the Future II: The Family Business
Presented by ISRI Century Club
Three family businesses, three stories of challenges, opportunities, success, and growth. Take home lessons learned across three multi-generational family businesses.
Path to Sustainability: What Is It and Why You Should Care
What does “sustainability” mean and how can we achieve it? Come explore these questions as well as the challenges, opportunities, and myths. Discuss how your company can proactively achieve a more sustainable future. Learn from the recyclers who have built and advocated for sustainability programs that have successfully impacted operations.
Young Executives Reception
Details coming soon.
ISRI After Hours Party at The Foundation Room at Mandalay Bay
Enjoy open bar, hors d’oeuvres, and music as you wrap up your day with friends and colleagues. For the first time ever, ISRI will host an after hours event at Vegas’ exclusive The Foundation Room! This event is only open to ISRI members registered for the full convention. You must bring a picture ID and convention badge to enter. Sponsored by ShearCore and OilQuick
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Breakfast in the ISRI Café
General Session: Challenges and Opportunities for Recycling in a Post-COVID Trade Environment
Business advisor and strategist Dr. Vikram Mansharamani is a global trend-watcher who teaches people how to anticipate the future, manage risk, and spot opportunities. A frequent commentator on business issues, he has been quoted internationally by major media and was listed by LinkedIn as their “#1 Top Voice for Money.” Not only does Mansharamani lecture at Harvard University, but he also advises Fortune 500 CEOs to help them navigate the radical uncertainty in today’s business and regulatory environment. At ISRI2022 he will provide a deep dive into what the future may hold for the recycling industry.
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New Mothers’ Lounge
ISRI Member Services Pavilion
Exhibit Hall
Welcome to the largest concentration of recycling industry equipment and service providers in the world. The hall features over 250 vendors covering every facet of the industry including the latest innovations and technological advances allowing you to optimize your operations. Discover new and exciting opportunities to take your business to the next level.
The “New” Requirement for Recyclers: ESG
ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance) is emerging as a requirement for investors, so government and public institutional investors as well as private equity investors are beginning to require standardized ESG reporting. Corporations are already building programs for public and investor goodwill and as part of their mission, but also because they see the regulatory requirements coming. Get the full breakdown of ESG including the opportunities, challenges, and more.
Spotlight on Paper
This session will examine the inner workings of a comprehensive supply chain service provider with a global procurement system for buying and selling recovered fiber. Hear the company’s dry pulping projects, export opportunities, and how they are navigating recovered paper market obstacles.
Spotlight on Aluminum: How Long Can the Light Metal Perform?
The aluminum market in 2021 saw solid gains in primary and secondary metal prices and elevated physical market premiums, while supply chain disruptions contributed to market tightness. Hear insights from industry leaders and market analysts on recycled aluminum’s increasingly important role in a sustainable future.
MRF Innovations and Collaborative Financing Models to Strengthen Recycling Infrastructure
MRFs across the country are innovating operations. Learn from the first city in Indiana to deploy an AI-guided robotic sorting system in a single-stream recycling facility, made possible through an investment by both public and private entities. This investment increased the volume of high-quality resin available for new packaging based on material recycled locally and extended the lifecycle of plastics. Gain perspective on how technology and collaborative partnerships like these help strengthen recycling infrastructure, and how this model can be replicated in your community.
Coping with Grief and Loss
The pandemic is a stark reminder that things can change in a minute. People have had to deal with grief and loss on an ongoing basis. Gain a better understanding of COVID-19’s impact on grief and loss and the interplay with your professional self.
ESG and Business Success
Environmental, Social, and Governance, or ESG, is gaining momentum and has become a hot topic in the recycling world. When it comes to ESGs, there is no one-size-fits-all approach. This session will provide insight on how you can incorporate ESG principles as part of your company’s overall risk management, including cybersecurity, loan eligibility, investments, employee recruitment, and trade.
The Role and Rollout of International Standards
International standards for electronics recycling have enabled recyclers around the globe to buy and sell products for reuse or for recycling while providing assurances and confidence for their customers. While these international standards have helped enable trade and provide market advantages, they have also become more complex and costly risking their continued growth and their goals of improving recycling globally. Gain the knowledge to navigate, comply, and shape these standards moving forward.
Sessions on the Showfloor
Details coming soon.
An Untapped Labor Solution: Successfully Employing Those with Disabilities
Of the 50 million people in the U.S. with a disability, less than 20% are participating in the labor force. This workforce typically has lower rates of absenteeism, turnover, and lost time accidents. Learn about the process for hiring individuals who have a 98% on the clock task engagement to improve your productivity and bottom line. With this strategy, your business can leverage the talents of an underserved population, increase community engagement, and provide new opportunities for collaboration.
Spotlight on Tire and Rubber: Recycling’s Role in Sustainable Development
Tire and rubber recycling is simultaneously expected to play a vital role in improving America’s infrastructure and sustainability, while also facing more state and local regulatory challenges. Learn about new tire and rubber recycling technologies, market challenges and opportunities, and the demand outlook from construction, transportation, and new applications.
Spotlight on Copper: Red Metal Market Global Outlook
Ongoing investment in domestic recycled copper processing and consumption continues to brighten the outlook for red metal recyclers. This comes at a time when global trade patterns are being reshaped by new trade regulations. Don’t miss this timely discussion on the outlook for recycled copper supply and demand in key regional markets including North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
One ISRI Recycling Workshop
Presented by ISRI Women in Recycling Council
Take part in an overview of the different aspects of recycling through a fast-paced, multimedia presentation packed with great information applicable to both veterans and those new to the recycling industry.
Understanding the Impact of Risk: A Case Study on One Company’s Victory over the Insurance Crisis
Companies across the industry are facing unprecedented challenges when addressing their insurance needs. Either their premiums have skyrocketed, or coverage has been completely unavailable. One company, the ARCOA Group, may have found a key to help manage the problem. This session will explore the ways that ARCOA has used a risk-based approach to environmental, health, and safety and quality issues, which has ensured that its insurance costs have stayed stagnate. Hear from ARCOA’s owner and compliance team, as well as the company's insurance broker, who will discuss ways that you can improve your insurance experience, regardless of the commodity you process.
Breakfast in the ISRI Cafe
New Mothers’ Lounge
Catalytic Converter Theft - Legislation & Enforcement and the Effect on Recycling
The surge in catalytic converter theft as a result of rising precious metals prices has caused issues for the recycling industry as well as law enforcement. Join a panel of law enforcement experts for a discussion on how state and local legislation affect catalytic converter theft as well as the possible need for federal legislation.
Cybersecurity: Pitfalls, Risks, and Solutions
From the far reaches of the dark web to the browser on your screen right now, cybersecurity touches almost every aspect of our professional lives. Three industry experts will give you the tools you need to assess your current cybersecurity capabilities in terms of the dangers, risk management, abatement, and best practices.
Creating a Sustainable Future: The Role of Recyclers and Our Industry
Presented by ISRI Young Executives Council
What does “sustainability” mean and how can we achieve it? In this session, the Young Executives Council will explore these questions as well as the challenges, opportunities, and myths. We’ll discuss how companies can proactively achieve a more sustainable future for their businesses and communities. We will also hear directly from recyclers who have built and advocated for sustainability programs that have successfully impacted operations.
Hospitality
Advocacy in Today’s Washington, DC
Recycling is essential to manufacturing, the global economy, and environmental stewardship. The Biden administration is pursuing a multifaceted agenda of building infrastructure to bolster a 21st-century economy, fighting climate change through green development, pursuing a worker-centric trade agenda, and ensuring environmental justice for all. In this session, representatives from Holland & Knight, who’s Public Policy & Regulation Group has been ranked among the top law and lobbying firms in Washington, DC, will dive into the current political climate and what the recycling industry can expect from the public policy landscape in 2022 and heading into midterm elections.
From Recycler to Supplier: How Digitalization Can Improve Your Recycling Operations
Presented by ISRI Young Executives Council
Learn the simple steps your yard can take to provide a digital experience for your employees and customers. As technology advances, the recycling industry is naturally slower to adopt new software or online tools. By sharing simple tools and do-it-yourself changes, leaders can learn how embracing new technology in recycling can help prepare for continued growth. Don’t get left behind.
7 Best Ways to Control Cost of Business Insurance and Increase Profits
Interested in finding out why insurance companies love ISRI’s Circle of Safety Excellence (COSE), how to make your Safety Committee more effective, or how regular key employee interviews and safety rewards can make your company safer? Join this session on business property and casualty, and gain the practical and effective ideas you need to make your company more efficient and profitable.
Closing General Session - Workforce Wake-up Call: How Many Must Leave Before Retention Is a True Priority?
Like many industries, the recycling industry struggles to hire and retain new employees in extremely competitive labor market conditions. Our guest speaker, Cara Silletto, uses her expertise to assist organizations of all sizes reduce employee turnover by bridging generational gaps and making managers more effective. Her work helps companies decrease costs, increase employee satisfaction, and ensure high-quality services and products for customers. Gain tools and strategies to inspire your team, stop high-volume turnover, keep high-level talent, and create a workplace where people want to stay.
ISRI Board of Directors Election
This meeting is open to all ISRI members.
Transportation for Final Night Party
ISRI Final Night Party - Drai’s Beach Club on the Las Vegas Strip
Never before has an ISRI convention and exposition closing night party in Vegas been held at an offsite location. Drai’s Beachclub and Nightclub has hosted some of the “world’s most celebrated DJs and chart-topping performers,” and now, ISRI2022 attendees! “Created by nightlife impresario Victor Drai, the 60,000 square feet venue offers a multi-sensory environment taking entertainment, service, and dining to new heights.” You will be closing down ISRI2022 in style!
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