"Market demand for an event focusing on plastics recycling has never been greater," says Jim Keefe, Recycling Today Media Group Publisher. "With energy and petroleum costs at an all-time high, more and more organizations are looking to the effectiveness of secondary plastics as a significant cost-saving opportunity."

The new plastics program will be held in conjunction with the popular Paper Recycling Conference (www.paperrecyclingconference.com), enabling professionals with interests in both markets to most effectively leverage their time by attending sessions across both events. Also of note, the Plastics Recycling Conference & Exhibition will be open two days after NPE 2006 closes in Chicago, affording plastics professionals the opportunity to attend both events.

The Plastics Recycling Conference program will focus on all facets of recovery, processing and marketing of secondary, or recycled, plastic materials. It will cover not only post-consumer grades but also post-industrial and commercial polymers.

About the Recycling Today Media Group

The Recycling Today Media Group was formed in 1963 with the founding of Recycling Today magazine. Today the group is the leading publisher in the recycling industry with a portfolio of media products that includes Recycling Today, Secure Destruction Business and Construction & Demolition Recycling magazines as well as the Paper Recycling Markets Directory, North American Scrap Metals Directory, the European Paper Recycling Conference and Paper Recycling Conference as well as leading industry websites and e-newsletters. The Recycling Today Media Group is a division of GIE Media, a leading b-to-b media services firm based in Cleveland Ohio. Each of GIE Media's 11 publications provides the most relevant and useful news and information available in their respective industries.