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Mid America Paper Recycling to promote Value of Waste Audit Revenue Benefits at SuperCorrExpo 2024

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Chicago — August 20, 2024 — With containerboard demand on the rise, Mid America Paper Recycling (MAPR) has a solution for packaging companies looking to increase their revenues. Throughout SuperCorrExpo^Ò 2024, being held September 8-12 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, MAPR officials in booth 1171 will explain how the extensive benefits of its Waste Audit program can increase the value of scrap and trim waste recycling streams.

The cardboard box recession that began two years ago appears to be trending in a favorable direction. Reports indicate production rose 7% in the second quarter this year, compared to the same timeframe in 2023. With SuperCorrExpo serving as North America’s largest event for the corrugated packaging industry, Mid America Paper Recycling CEO Don Gaines says now is the right time for attendees to learn about the hidden benefits of recyclable waste.

“Manufacturing operations create tons of waste every year, ranging from pre-consumer, high grade recyclable paper to production trim and paperboard. Our free Waste Audit Survey can help identify what you may be overlooking because there is a cash value in your trash,” said Gaines. MAPR has provided recycling solutions to nationwide partners for 98 years, and Gaines has led the fourth-generation independent broker, processor, and exporter of recovered paper for the last 42 years.

“Our facility puts an emphasis on de-inking paper grades, pulp sub-grades, and all types of corrugated,” continued Gaines. “We specialize in developing comprehensive recycling programs for manufacturers, packaging companies, printers, and converters. Our Growing The Worth Of Your Waste program helps customers grow revenues they are realizing from scrap generation by finding holes in their recycling processes, and by reducing expenses paid to haul away scrap.”

At the SuperCorrExpo, Gaines said MAPR staff will explain the recycling program and its importance for small businesses, newer organizations, and well-established Fortune 500 businesses.

“As we go in to many companies, they often tell us that everything is going well. When we dive into their processes, we generally find that we are able to increase their revenues and decrease their costs by applying best practices we’ve developed over decades. That’s where our experience helps make an impact on both the revenue and expense sides of their P&L statement,” he remarked.

The comprehensive MAPR Waste Audit Survey is the first step on the path to recycling improvement. Gaines said booth visitors who take 10 minutes to complete it will learn how the detailed process can improve operations and increase revenue per ton.

“Establishing a baseline and working at continuous improvement is a necessity for any size operation. This audit offers the same strategic process to improving a converter’s current waste handling practices, allowing you to build a smart program that continuously improves the worth of your waste. The SuperCorrExpo is the ideal place to get this conversation started.”

If you are not attending the SuperCorrExpo and want to complete a Waste Audit survey – which can be done from your office or home – go online to https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MAPRAudit.

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About Mid America Paper Recycling

Founded in 1926, Mid America Paper Recycling is a fourth-generation leader in the recycling industry, and provides solutions for partners ranging from small businesses to large multinational corporations. Its robust program features a new benchmarking audit, consultation services, documentation, quantification and presentation of the specific and overall values that can be realized from customer waste streams. To learn more about the free waste audit and Mid America’s other environmental initiatives, call 773-890-5454 or visit www.midamericapaper.com.

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Chicago — April 17, 2024

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Brian Gaughan joins Mid America Paper Recycling as Director of New Business Development

Mid America Paper Recycling (MAPR) announced today that Brian Gaughan is the company’s Director of New Business Development. A 30-year industry veteran with an impressive list of accomplishments, he reports to CEO Don Gaines.

Gaughan returns to the recycling industry after he served as a Director at Heritage Environmental Services in Indianapolis, and was responsible for growth and new ventures in the sustainability sector since 2021. Prior positions include six years at Greenstar North America. He was a founding partner of the private equity-backed start-up before it was sold to Waste Management, where he worked previously. He also spent four years as the general manager of the Georgia-Pacific Plastics Division.

“I’m proud of my time at Greenstar. We built it from scratch into a $250M company and eventually sold it, and now I’m back in the recycling industry,” said Gaughan, who believes his expertise in plastics recycling is a natural fit for his new job.

“I have done business with Mid America Paper Recycling for many years, and I was always impressed with their operation and how they work,” he said. “Being out of the recycling sector while I was at Heritage, I decided to get back into the business I have spent the majority of my career in. My focus is on new business development and with my experience, I hope to assist the Mid America Paper Recycling team in growing the company.”

“I welcome Brian to the MAPR team who joins our rich history of 97 years,” said Gaines. “His 30 years of industry experience and extensive knowledge of the MRF and plastic industries will greatly help us realize our growth initiatives.”

A graduate of St. Norbert College, Gaughan lives in suburban Chicago with his wife, Annie, and they have four children. An avid sports fan and golfer, he volunteers his time at church and schools. He also currently assists a non-profit board and the board of a plastics company.

ABOUT MID AMERICA PAPER RECYCLING

Founded in 1926, Mid America Paper Recycling is a fourth-generation leader in the recycling industry and provides solutions for partners ranging from small businesses to large multinational corporations. Its robust program features a new benchmarking audit, consultation services, documentation, quantification and presentation of the specific and overall values that can be realized from customer waste streams. To learn more about the free waste audit and Mid America’s other environmental initiatives, call 773-890-5454 or visit www.midamericapaper.com.

TLMI and the industry’s CELAB (Circular Economy for Labels) Consortium submitted the addition to the guideline circular. Founded by companies in the self-adhesive label industry, CELAB strives to create greater environmental circularity for its products by enhancing and promoting label liner matrix and release liner recycling. TLMI and CELAB jointly requested the creation of a bale specification for silicone release liner at the end of 2021, and an ISRI working group reviewed and researched the request. The decision to create a specialty grade classification was passed by the Paper Division in early February.

“The ISRI specialty specification will help others understand that the liner can be recycled,” notes Chuck Williams, CELAB’s Technical Workstream Co-chair and Senior Technical Director at Avery Dennison. “The ISRI specialty specification will help others understand that the liner can be recycled. The liners that the label industry uses are high quality papers and have high recycle value. We have proven that the release coating can be managed in recycling systems and hope this helps paper manufacturers in adopting a higher use rate of this quality feed stream.”

Mid America Paper Recycling Issues 2023 State of the Commodities Market

State of the Commodities Market | Chicago, IL | Mid America Paper Recycling Co Inc

Dec. 4, 2023

Are the recovered corrugated and waste paper market prices moving out of their slump? Are domestic OCC prices on the rise? What is really happening in the economic industrial recycling market? So that its network can better understand what’s happening, Mid America Paper Recycling has issued its annual, exclusive State of the Commodities report for 2023, available for immediate download below.

Though the high prices of 2021 and early 2022 have not returned, as of early December, the national average for OCC sits at $75/ton FOB at the seller’s dock, up from $33/ton in March. Authored by Chief Executive Officer Don Gaines, Mid America Paper Recycling’s new report explores the still-fluctuating ups and downs in recovered paper, corrugated, and paperboard, what he hears from the pulp and paper mills, tonnage prices, and what to expect in 2024.

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TLMI and the industry’s CELAB (Circular Economy for Labels) Consortium submitted the addition to the guideline circular. Founded by companies in the self-adhesive label industry, CELAB strives to create greater environmental circularity for its products by enhancing and promoting label liner matrix and release liner recycling. TLMI and CELAB jointly requested the creation of a bale specification for silicone release liner at the end of 2021, and an ISRI working group reviewed and researched the request. The decision to create a specialty grade classification was passed by the Paper Division in early February.

“The ISRI specialty specification will help others understand that the liner can be recycled,” notes Chuck Williams, CELAB’s Technical Workstream Co-chair and Senior Technical Director at Avery Dennison. “The ISRI specialty specification will help others understand that the liner can be recycled. The liners that the label industry uses are high quality papers and have high recycle value. We have proven that the release coating can be managed in recycling systems and hope this helps paper manufacturers in adopting a higher use rate of this quality feed stream.”

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New Guide about Productive Partnerships We Can All Celebrate

Shredded Paper — Chicago, IL — Mid America Paper Recycling Co Inc

August 14, 2023

When waste materials stay out of landfills and go into valuable products, everyone in the circular economy thrives.

Mid America Paper Recycling, Chicago, is providing several of its partners with innovative ways to meet their recycling challenges with paperboard, paper, wood, corrugated and plastic waste. The company has issued a new 12-page guide that features various examples of Mid America Paper Recycling’s work with its partners to support growth and recycling success. The guide reviews experiences with companies such as Cascades Sonoco, Continuus Materials, Midwest Companies, and more where Mid America Paper Recycling has developed mutually beneficial projects and relationships between sellers of waste materials, and buyers looking to upcycle. The new guide shows how Mid America Paper Recycling is helping them transform waste products that can be recycled and reused at the end of their useful life into new, sustainable options.

For example, Midwest Companies contracts with railroads, freight carriers, and other companies to recycle wood waste, diverting it from landfills and producing TIEROC, a cost-effective biodegradable road aggregate. Mid America Paper Recycling supplies Midwest with used wooden converting dieboards to make TIEROC. Mid America Paper Recycling also supplies Continuus Materials’ plant in Des Moines, Iowa, with assorted paper, paperboard, and plastic waste. Diverted from landfills, the waste is used by Continuus to produce Everboard ™, a high-performance composite roof covering.

In addition, Mid America Paper Recycling has identified Cascades Sonoco’s FlexSHIELD® aqueous-based barrier coating as a solution its client partners can benefit from. FlexSHIELD affordably protects packaging and rollstock against leaks and is compostable, recyclable, and repulpable. And Mid America Paper Recycling collaborates with CELAB, Circular Economy for the Label Industry, a self-adhesive label industry coalition, to help label converters across the U.S. capture and recycle spent release liners.

These are just a few examples of the innovations Mid America Paper Recycling helps its strategic partners and organizations produce and further develop with a sustainable, circular economy in mind.

“These projects demonstrate that recycling, processing creativity, and revenue generation all follow innovation,” notes Paul Pirkle, president of Mid America Paper Recycling.

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TLMI and the industry’s CELAB (Circular Economy for Labels) Consortium submitted the addition to the guideline circular. Founded by companies in the self-adhesive label industry, CELAB strives to create greater environmental circularity for its products by enhancing and promoting label liner matrix and release liner recycling. TLMI and CELAB jointly requested the creation of a bale specification for silicone release liner at the end of 2021, and an ISRI working group reviewed and researched the request. The decision to create a specialty grade classification was passed by the Paper Division in early February.

“The ISRI specialty specification will help others understand that the liner can be recycled,” notes Chuck Williams, CELAB’s Technical Workstream Co-chair and Senior Technical Director at Avery Dennison. “The ISRI specialty specification will help others understand that the liner can be recycled. The liners that the label industry uses are high quality papers and have high recycle value. We have proven that the release coating can be managed in recycling systems and hope this helps paper manufacturers in adopting a higher use rate of this quality feed stream.”

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Mid America Paper Recycling Names Kathleen Stark Controller

February 21, 2023

Chicago — February 21, 2023 — Mid America Paper Recycling (MAPR) appointed Kathleen Stark to its leadership team as Controller, a new position, effective February 6. Part of the company’s executive team, Stark joined Mid America Paper Recycling after a 26-year financial career as a controller, auditor, and other financial management roles with companies including McDonald’s, Tiege Hanley, and LRAP, among others. A certified public accountant, Stark will oversee financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, auditing and other strategic initiatives.

“I have a passion for accounting and finances, so I’m very excited to work with the management team at Mid America Paper Recycling in its next phase of building financial efficiencies,” Stark explained.

One of Stark’s key priorities will be to provide financial insight to the company’s leadership team as it continues to grow and add value by proactively educating, serving, and presenting a clear pathway for fiber recycling to customers across the U.S.

“Kathleen has been a great addition to the executive team,” said President Paul Pirkle. “Not only does she bring excellent knowledge to this role, but she is a great person. Although Kathleen has been here for a short time, she fit into our culture immediately, rolling up her sleeves right away to learn about our business. Her natural curiosity for the recycling business coupled with her exceptional understanding of business best practices will serve all of us well."

It was more than just finances that intrigued Stark about joining the company. “Mid America Paper Recycling has a strong foundation in business for nearly 100 years,” she said. “I appreciate the management team’s enthusiasm about making improvements and am thrilled to facilitate moving the business forward, helping it continue to grow, and finding new opportunities.”

Adds Chief Executive Office Don Gaines, “We are excited to have Kathleen join our team and look forward to all the success that I know she will help bring to Mid America Paper Recycling.”

A graduate of Indiana State University, Stark is married with two children and is active in city affairs in Western Springs, IL, where she lives. When not reviewing financial statements, she enjoys sports, spending time with family, and competing in triathlons.

ABOUT MID AMERICA PAPER RECYCLING

Founded in 1926, Mid America Paper Recycling is a fourth-generation leader in the recycling industry and provides solutions for partners ranging from small businesses to large multinational corporations. Its robust program features a new benchmarking audit, consultation services, documentation, quantification and presentation of the specific and overall values that can be realized from customer waste streams. To learn more about the free waste audit and Mid America’s other environmental initiatives, call 773-890-5454 or visit www.midamericapaper.com.

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TLMI and the industry’s CELAB (Circular Economy for Labels) Consortium submitted the addition to the guideline circular. Founded by companies in the self-adhesive label industry, CELAB strives to create greater environmental circularity for its products by enhancing and promoting label liner matrix and release liner recycling. TLMI and CELAB jointly requested the creation of a bale specification for silicone release liner at the end of 2021, and an ISRI working group reviewed and researched the request. The decision to create a specialty grade classification was passed by the Paper Division in early February.

“The ISRI specialty specification will help others understand that the liner can be recycled,” notes Chuck Williams, CELAB’s Technical Workstream Co-chair and Senior Technical Director at Avery Dennison. “The ISRI specialty specification will help others understand that the liner can be recycled. The liners that the label industry uses are high quality papers and have high recycle value. We have proven that the release coating can be managed in recycling systems and hope this helps paper manufacturers in adopting a higher use rate of this quality feed stream.”

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Mid America Paper Recycling Issues State of the Commodities Market

December 12, 2022

By now, most pulp and paper mills, recycling waste suppliers and recycling manufacturers know the changes in recycling industry expectations since the start of 2022 have been dramatic. The corrugated and paper waste markets have been difficult to predict in the last 90 days, due to ongoing fundamental stresses at the mills and along the supply chain, and more. This has caused prices of OCC to nosedive by $90 a ton or 70 percent, according to Fastmarket’s October Pulp & Paper Report.

So that its network can better understand what’s really happening in the market, Mid America Paper Recycling has issued an exclusive State of the Commodities report, authored by President Paul Pirkle and CEO Don Gaines, available for immediate download below

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TLMI and the industry’s CELAB (Circular Economy for Labels) Consortium submitted the addition to the guideline circular. Founded by companies in the self-adhesive label industry, CELAB strives to create greater environmental circularity for its products by enhancing and promoting label liner matrix and release liner recycling. TLMI and CELAB jointly requested the creation of a bale specification for silicone release liner at the end of 2021, and an ISRI working group reviewed and researched the request. The decision to create a specialty grade classification was passed by the Paper Division in early February.

“The ISRI specialty specification will help others understand that the liner can be recycled,” notes Chuck Williams, CELAB’s Technical Workstream Co-chair and Senior Technical Director at Avery Dennison. “The ISRI specialty specification will help others understand that the liner can be recycled. The liners that the label industry uses are high quality papers and have high recycle value. We have proven that the release coating can be managed in recycling systems and hope this helps paper manufacturers in adopting a higher use rate of this quality feed stream.”

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MidAmerica Paper Recycling Participates in RevOps podcast

Paul Pirkle — Chicago, IL — Mid America Paper Recycling Co Inc

August 4, 2022

Paul Pirkle, President of Chicago’s Mid America Paper Recycling, participated in a July episode of RevOps (Revenue Operations) Champions podcast called “Learning How Automation Platforms Help Keep Customer Data Organized Long Term.” Sponsored by Denamico, the RevOps podcast is designed for revenue professionals looking to advance sales and marketing initiatives within their organizations. Each episode features a different leader in their industry who discusses their involvement in leveraging technology to drive operational efficiency, revenue and improve the customer experience.

Pirkle and Brendon Dennewill, RevOps Champions host, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Denamico, emphasized how important it is to regularly communicate with both customers and internal business teams to best impact the customer experience.

Sharing his experiences and challenges at Mid America to improve the processes and systems used to attract and convert customers, Pirkle agreed that sales, marketing, customer service, and operations teams should all work together to drive a significant impact that touches every part of the business.

“Mid America Paper Recycling works with businesses across the country to improve their recycling practices for paper, plastic, metals, and many other materials,” he added. “These streamlined procedures can more effectively increase their recycling revenue and simplify reducing their waste.”

Mid America is also positioned for the future, Pirkle said. “We’re technologically advanced and on the leading edge of our market. We use tools to help us stay that way.”

Bringing value is important during every sales call, Pirkle emphasized. “Combining value with staying technologically relevant can differentiate a business and increase its success. That’s why the RevOps function and its opportunities are very germane to what Mid America does on a regular basis. RevOps helps us engage our customer base and proactively stay on top of their needs.”

The main point of RevOps is to accelerate and simplify the customer journey to generate more predictable revenue. RevOps is a B2B function that uses automation to help teams make decisions that can grow a business. Its four components represent the convergence of marketing, sales, and customer service: people; the process; data; and technology. Companies often don’t consider aligning all of these components. Often, they only invest in technology, thinking that it will fix data, processes, and people. As a leader in the recycling segment, Pirkle pointed out that such technology can make people, processes, and data better, faster, and less expensive when these three components are understood.

Historically, sales, marketing, and customer success teams have often operated as siloed divisions. RevOps examines how breaking down the barriers between these departments can result in short- and long-term customer satisfaction and retention. Aligning these teams keeps everyone on the same page.

To learn more, hear the entire RevOps Champions podcast from Denamico: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js-gDL-ctBw

TLMI and the industry’s CELAB (Circular Economy for Labels) Consortium submitted the addition to the guideline circular. Founded by companies in the self-adhesive label industry, CELAB strives to create greater environmental circularity for its products by enhancing and promoting label liner matrix and release liner recycling. TLMI and CELAB jointly requested the creation of a bale specification for silicone release liner at the end of 2021, and an ISRI working group reviewed and researched the request. The decision to create a specialty grade classification was passed by the Paper Division in early February.

“The ISRI specialty specification will help others understand that the liner can be recycled,” notes Chuck Williams, CELAB’s Technical Workstream Co-chair and Senior Technical Director at Avery Dennison. “The ISRI specialty specification will help others understand that the liner can be recycled. The liners that the label industry uses are high quality papers and have high recycle value. We have proven that the release coating can be managed in recycling systems and hope this helps paper manufacturers in adopting a higher use rate of this quality feed stream.”

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Label Release Liner — Chicago, IL — Mid America Paper Recycling Co Inc

MAPR Website News—TLMI/ISRI/CELAB—Label Release Liner Added to ISRI Paperstock Guidelines-April 2022

Label Release Liner Added to ISRI Paperstock Guidelines

TLMI, Milford, Ohio, announces that the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), Washington, has approved the addition of a specialty grade of paperstock to its guidelines for paper stock contained in the ISRI Scrap Specifications Circular. During the Institute’s spring board meeting in March, ISRI’s Paper Division recommended to its Board of Directors that the specialty grade be added to the circular and referenced as “37-S Silicone Release Liner.”

TLMI and the industry’s CELAB (Circular Economy for Labels) Consortium submitted the addition to the guideline circular. Founded by companies in the self-adhesive label industry, CELAB strives to create greater environmental circularity for its products by enhancing and promoting label liner matrix and release liner recycling. TLMI and CELAB jointly requested the creation of a bale specification for silicone release liner at the end of 2021, and an ISRI working group reviewed and researched the request. The decision to create a specialty grade classification was passed by the Paper Division in early February.

“The ISRI specialty specification will help others understand that the liner can be recycled,” notes Chuck Williams, CELAB’s Technical Workstream Co-chair and Senior Technical Director at Avery Dennison. “The ISRI specialty specification will help others understand that the liner can be recycled. The liners that the label industry uses are high quality papers and have high recycle value. We have proven that the release coating can be managed in recycling systems and hope this helps paper manufacturers in adopting a higher use rate of this quality feed stream.”

TLMI and the industry’s CELAB (Circular Economy for Labels) Consortium submitted the addition to the guideline circular. Founded by companies in the self-adhesive label industry, CELAB strives to create greater environmental circularity for its products by enhancing and promoting label liner matrix and release liner recycling. TLMI and CELAB jointly requested the creation of a bale specification for silicone release liner at the end of 2021, and an ISRI working group reviewed and researched the request. The decision to create a specialty grade classification was passed by the Paper Division in early February.

“The ISRI specialty specification will help others understand that the liner can be recycled,” notes Chuck Williams, CELAB’s Technical Workstream Co-chair and Senior Technical Director at Avery Dennison. “The ISRI specialty specification will help others understand that the liner can be recycled. The liners that the label industry uses are high quality papers and have high recycle value. We have proven that the release coating can be managed in recycling systems and hope this helps paper manufacturers in adopting a higher use rate of this quality feed stream.”

Recently, Mid America’s President, Paul Pirkle, spoke with some of CELAB’s members about the subject. CELAB members include companies up and down the value chain of the matrix and liner industry. “As a recycler, Mid America is researching options, solutions and outlets for effectively recycling this material going forward,” he said. “It’s good to know there is more interest today in providing a sustainable solution for label release liner and matrix materials versus sending the product to a landfill. Paper release liners and silicone backing papers are good fiber materials that certain customers want.”

Having a grade code to support the collection and recycling of used liner material demonstrates the value of used liner to the market, further explains Timothy Rummel, CELAB Technical Workstream Co-chair and Technical Manager, Performance Materials - Paper Coatings at Wacker Chemie. “Liner can only be made with premium, highly refined fiber, and once the market realizes this, we believe end users will begin to seek it out.”

Need a recycling partner for your label liner products? Contact Mid America Paper Recycling at info@midamericapaper.com. More details about this news are available at https://tlmi.com/news.

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Mid America Paper Recycling Wall — Chicago, IL — Mid America Paper Recycling Co Inc

To all our customers and partners:

It is not uncommon for two businesses to share similar sounding names, especially when they are located in different geographic areas. We would like to clarify that the recent news of Schupan and Sons Inc., a recycling firm based in Kalamazoo, Mich., acquiring Mid America Recycling, based in Des Moines, Iowa, has nothing to do with our own firm, Chicago-based Mid America Paper Recycling.

As a fourth-generation family-owned company since 1926, we can assure you it is our privilege to be at the forefront of an industry that has a positive impact on the environment. Our ownership team is fully vested in our relationships with customers and partners. Our financial strength is unwavering. Above all, we know how to deliver higher productivity, safety, and economic value, all while turning waste streams into value streams.

Sincerely,

Don Gaines

Paul Pirkle

Mid America Paper Recycling

Chicago, IL

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MAPR Modex 2022 Be Our Guest — Chicago, IL — Mid America Paper Recycling Co Inc

Mid America Paper Recycling to educate visitors on Increasing Revenue from Recyclable Waste at MODEX 2022

January 20, 2022

Chicago — January 20, 2022 — Mid America Paper Recycling (MAPR), one of the largest independent brokers, processors and exporters of recovered paper in the Central U.S., will exhibit at MODEX 2022, March 28-31, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, in Booth 7450. Mid America will highlight its first-of-its-kind Waste Audit, an initiative, focused on tracking and increasing the value of the recycling waste streams generated by logistics firms, commercial printers and paperboard converters.

Hosted by The Material Handling Industry of America, the MODEX show/conference will feature advancements in supply chain solutions, materials handling equipment, services, technology and logistics and smart systems. “MODEX 2022 will allow us to educate our customers and attendees about the hidden benefits of their recyclable waste,” explains Paul Pirkle, president of Mid America Paper Recycling. “We plan to do the same with visitors to our booth and explain the tremendous value in adopting a continuous improvement plan for their waste streams.”

Mid America works closely with many operations creating a customized, continuous improvement process that identifies where their waste is generated, establishes key collection procedures, and sets objectives that continually improve their waste stream’s revenue contribution to their business, Pirkle explains. “No other company offers as comprehensive and value-added a solution,” he states.

The Mid America exhibit staff will be available at MODEX 2022 to fully describe our recycling program, explain its many benefits, how it works, and illustrate why it is a key component for all types of companies, from small and newer businesses to the well established Fortune 500. The innovative recycling management program helps producers build a scorecard process by benchmarking, monitoring and continuously upgrading their recycling operations to help them achieve their sustainability goals and grow the financial worth of their waste.

“Recyclable materials can be wasted, which doesn’t meet anyone’s environmental goals,” Pirkle notes. “But we show companies how their waste can be a significant value-added contributor to their profitability if professionally managed. We target hidden savings opportunities in an operation’s indirect costs using our innovative Waste Audit process. When we introduce and outline the Audit with plant operations personnel, it gets them thinking, triggering discussion and raising questions.”

Mid America shows producers how they can grow the worth of the recyclable waste produced. It’s an important and detailed process that begins with how the waste is generated and where it flows through a plant, to how loads of the recyclable waste materials are shipped and how all of the steps within the recycling process can be improved to accrue more revenue per ton.

Taking Mid America’s free Waste Audit Survey is the first step on the path to recycling improvement. Easy to use, the survey takes only 10 minutes to fill out, but is comprehensive in scope.

Because manufacturing operations often create tons of waste each year, – ranging from pre-consumer, high-grade recyclable paper to production trim and paperboard – Mid America’s Audit Process can help these operations realize significant revenues, Pirkle says.

“Continuous Improvement is so important today in many areas of an operation, that we designed the Audit to bring this same strategic process to a recycler's current waste handling practices and build a smart program that continuously improves the worth of their waste.”

To learn more about Mid America’s continuous improvement initiative and the Audit, stop at the Mid America Booth 7450 at MODEX 2022 and take the Waste Audit survey or go online to visit https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MAPRAudit.

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About Mid America Paper Recycling: Founded in 1926, Mid America Paper Recycling is a fourth-generation leader in the recycling industry, and provides solutions for partners ranging from small businesses to large multinational corporations. Its robust program features a new benchmarking audit, consultation services, documentation, quantification and presentation of the specific and overall values that can be realized from customer waste streams. To learn more about the free waste audit and Mid America’s other environmental initiatives, call 773-890-5454 or visit www.midamericapaper.com.

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Mid America Paper Recycling Participates in Recovered Paper Market Webinar

November 2, 2021

Paper recycling worldwide is increasing robustly. Most of the material being recycled globally includes Old Corrugated Containers (OCC), mixed paper and Sorted Office Paper (SOP). The largest driver is e-commerce, which has increased in sales by 165 percent over the last five years, according to market researcher/consultancy firm IndexBox.

In fact, IndexBox reports the thriving e-commerce market should increase year-to-year in the U.S. by 15 percent by 2027, and is already grabbing more than 12 percent of total retail sales. According to the European Paper Recycling Council, paper recycling in the European Union reached 72 percent in 2019. The U.S. attained a record recycling performance indicator of 68.2% in 2018, but this figure began to drop to 65.7 percent in 2020, following a decline in the volume of American waste paper being processed abroad. And despite the rise in paper recycling facilities in the U.S., there continues to be a shortage of reprocessing plants.

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Mid America’s President Paul Pirkle participated as a speaker in IndexBox’s recent webinar about the global recovered paper market. Featuring trends, statistics and an overall outlook on the industry, the presentation explored the main macroeconomic statistics around production and trade. In 2020, global imports of waste and scrap of paper and paperboard declined by 15 percent against the previous year, according to IndexBox estimates. The decline was largely a result of China's systematic curb and later ban in 2021 of solid waste imports, the latter an initiative aimed at improving the country's environmental situation. As paper and paperboard recycling are primed to increase worldwide, in line with the global shift to a circular economy, the global market share is expected to be captured by other countries, such as India, Vietnam and Malaysia, which are increasing their volumes of imported paper waste.

Speakers including Pirkle discussed some the supply side challenges brought on by the e-commerce boom that have been magnified by the advent of COVID-19, the shifts in material usage, screening, collection and recycling in different parts of the market, as well as the future expectations of the market.

Pirkle and the other speakers shared thoughts on how they are coping during this trying time of changes in consumer preferences (retail purchases versus e-commerce) and the supply and demand curve’s somewhat erratic behavior. Currently, there is high demand for mixed paper, versus the available supply, Pirkle mentioned. That’s why curbside collection continues to be important, he said, especially in terms of the care in handling and sorting of corrugated materials, and the need for continued consumer education on the value of curbside recycling of corrugated materials, which would improve the state of paper recovery.

Sorted Office Paper (SOP) usage and recovery have been on the decline even before the COVID-19 pandemic prompted more work from home, the speakers said, causing those paper grades and others to be more difficult for the MFRs to find and dramatically affect paper prices. Some paper grades that were very inexpensive a few years ago are now reaching historic highs. All of this may prompt some paper mills to seek alternative fiber sources and/or make long-term shifts in the paper grades they select, Pirkle added.

The speakers observed the current soaring prices of many paper grades, such as OCC, may have reached their peak and are beginning to slightly recede. A decline in the global export and import of waste paper products is equally forecast against increasingly strict environmental standards in particular countries. The key exporters of paper waste, such as the U.S., the UK, and Japan will now be forced to develop their own paper and paperboard recycling capacity.

The entire webinar from IndexBox is available here: https://www.indexbox.io/events/global-recovered-paper-market-2021/

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CELAB Liner Recycling — Chicago, IL — Mid America Paper Recycling Co Inc

Mid America Joins CELAB Initiative to Increase Release Liner Recycling and Advance the Circular Economy

October 12, 2021

Chicago — October 12, 2021 — Mid America Paper Recycling (MAPR) today announced its participation as an official recycling partner in CELAB (Circular Economy for Labels), a first of its kind sustainability program to increase recycling of spent release liner used in the North American self-adhesive label and package printing industry.

One of the largest independent brokers, processors and exporters of r ecovered paper in the Central United States, Chicago-based MAPR will collaborate with CELAB on building a Midwest pilot program for label converters and their customers. It will include education efforts, resource links and free waste audit services, so they can begin recycling their matrix and release liner, creating a sustainable circular economy around labels.

“We are very proud to partner with CELAB to help converters everywhere strengthen the recycling and circularity of spent release liners,” said Paul Pirkle, president of Mid America Paper Recycling. “We have recycling best practices to share and all the tools in place to help converters capture this material.”

Once a label is removed, the film-based silicone release liner plays no further role in the packaging process and is typically discarded into the trash. Choosing and supporting release liner recycling can decrease a converter’s monthly waste-hauling costs while helping to divert material from landfills.

CELAB’s two-year-old consortium represents global and regional companies throughout the self-adhesive label supply chain. Its leadership team studied the entire value chain for film based silicone release liners, the use of which is growing worldwide.

“We were founded to create a sustainable labeling industry,” adds Brian Lawrence, CELAB Executive Board Member and Director of Business Development for Henkel Adhesive Technologies. “Increasing access to liner recycling through experienced partners like Mid America helps create greater circularity for all our North American members.”

CELAB will also be promoting its recycling initiative as an exhibitor at this year’s TLMI Annual Meeting October 17-19 in Naples, Florida, with Mr. Lawrence appearing as a panelist during TLMI’s Sustainability Panel Discussion on October 19^th at 10:15-11:15 AM.

For converters interested in taking the first step toward exploring options for their matrix and release liner recycling, Mid America offers a free Waste Audit Survey , which takes only 10 minutes to complete online.

ABOUT MID AMERICA PAPER RECYCLING

Founded in 1926, Mid America Paper Recycling is a fourth-generation leader in the recycling industry and provides solutions for partners ranging from small businesses to large multinational corporations. Its robust program features a new benchmarking audit, consultation services, documentation, quantification and presentation of the specific and overall values that can be realized from customer waste streams. To learn more about the free waste audit and Mid America’s other environmental initiatives, call 773-890-5454 or visit www.midamericapaper.com.

ABOUT CELAB

CELAB: Toward a Circular Economy for Labels is an industry initiative, founded by companies in the self-adhesive label industry to create greater circularity for its products by enhancing and promoting matrix and release liner recycling around the world. Comprising many of the self-adhesive label industry’s largest companies, CELAB will operate as a coalition, empowered to reach across the entire value chain to promote a circular economy for self-adhesive label materials. CELAB is designed to facilitate collaboration at a global level and encourage the universal adoption of best practices while fostering regionally appropriate initiatives and cooperation.

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An Unforgettable SuperCorrExpo 2021

Attracting nearly 3,000 attendees and more than 220 exhibitors to Orlando, Fla. In mid-August, SuperCorrExpo 2021 welcomed the corrugated industry for an incredible week of relationship building, learning, and experiencing the latest trends, innovations and new products and services. Mid America Paper Recycling exhibited at the show, which encompassed more than 102,000 sq. ft. of floorspace featuring new technology, materials, equipment and demonstrations, while also hosting numerous

onsite receptions and exclusive offsite adventures. After the lengthy pause in live events caused by COVID-19, the Mid America team, which included Paul Pirkle, Don Gaines and Jake Meszaros, was eager to walk the show floor live and in-person, and see the exhibit hall filled with new recycling and corrugated developments, and emerging technologies. At the Mid America booth, the team met and talked with many visitors, discussing how to effectively recycle fiber and grow income, revenues and efficient recycling practices. After the show, Mid America was super-charged and ready to follow up with all of the great new contacts made. Thanks to everyone who stopped by!

ABOUT MID AMERICA PAPER RECYCLING

Founded in 1926, Mid America Paper Recycling is a fourth-generation leader in the recycling industry and provides solutions for partners ranging from small businesses to large multinational corporations. Its robust program features a new benchmarking audit, consultation services, documentation, quantification and presentation of the specific and overall values that can be realized from customer waste streams. To learn more about the free waste audit and Mid America’s other environmental

initiatives, call 773-890-5454 or visit www.midamericapaper.com.

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Turning Waste Streams into Value Streams

October 11, 2021

Recently, Mid America Paper Recycling developed a great way for you to learn more about us. We developed a series of Company Videos, available on YouTube. Mid America has a long track record of developing effective recycling programs for our strategic partners that exceed their expectations. We often begin to outperform their previous recycling vendor within weeks or months of signing contracts. It all starts with a free waste audit, based on continuous improvement methods, which forms the foundation for our strategic business partnership with you.

This comprehensive Recycling Introduction video summarizes who we are, what we do, and how we transform customer waste streams into value streams. Our leadership team discusses how we help your processes become more cost-efficient, develop different markets for various commodities, and how we use our Waste Audit process to assess the health of your recycling program and improve your operation. This helps to maximize the value, sustainability and quality of your waste while decreasing costs and promoting safety and sustainability.

Mid America Paper Recycling has been providing recycling solutions and brokerage services to businesses in cities across the country for over 90 years. The video also talks about decades of our experience, which is backed by a growing nationwide network of buyers and suppliers of paper, cardboard, and plastics. Paper mills and plastics manufacturing operations rely on our expertise, which means we can secure a premium over prevailing market prices through the natural ups and downs of the market. This helps our partners gather more revenue from waste, and it’s made possible by insights many recycling vendors can’t offer.

So, enjoy the video! Call us to schedule your own Waste Audit to improve your recycling operation.

View this new video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUOEc_NOipU .

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Innovations Took Center Stage at Southeast Recycling Conference & Trade Show 2021

Sept. 27, 2021

Innovations Took Center Stage at Southeast Recycling Conference & Trade Show 2021

Mid America Paper Recycling was pleased to visit the 34^th Southeast Recycling Conference & Trade Show (SERC) in August, and looks forward to the next show in 2022. The Mid America team met a wealth of industry professionals and recycling leaders at the event in Orlando Fla., and got a chance to view new developments and advances from more than 500 recycling experts, all in one location. “That’s the beauty of an event like this. It provides all of these industry pros and visitors in one place,” notes Mid America’s President Paul Pirkle. “We made a great deal of valuable contacts, found more leads, sales and brand exposure, and enjoyed productive networking opportunities.”

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Attended by paper mill operators and buyers, brokers, MRF operators, recycling coordinators, solid waste directors, processors, equipment dealers and manufacturers, transporters and sustainability managers, SERC began as a Southeast venue, but today, 65 percent of its attendees come from outside the Southeast. Visitors can expect to find plenty of familiar and new businesses in the recycling profession, which is why Mid America is to take part. The company is looking forward to SERC 2022, which will be held at the Hilton Sandestin Beach Golf Resort & Spa in Miramar Beach, Fla. To learn more about SERC, visit https://southeastrecycling.com .

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Wow Messages — Chicago, IL — Mid America Paper Recycling Co Inc

Best of the WOWs – Words of Wisdom

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Paul Pirkle’s We Wow; we WIN!, or WOW messages, inspire, encourage, inform, and jumpstart the company’s morning.

Each morning, Mid America Paper Recycling’ issues a daily message called WOW (We WOW; we win!) that reinforces the company’s mission and core values, provides immediate company news and shares behaviors that best benefit customers and suppliers. Intra-company communication and a strong corporate culture are important at MAPR, and the excerpts here from some of the latest messages reflect its insights and exceptional customer and supplier service.

WOWs before the coronavirus pandemic:

“You are part of something being well thought of. The work you’re doing makes our relationships. We cannot stop here. We’ll continue to move forward and find ways to differentiate ourselves from all other companies that these companies work with.”—Paul Pirkle, President, WOW 11/22/19

“We’re not only able to talk about our experience in the recycling market; we’re able to demonstrate our proficiency with the value we add with real tools. The market is a struggle, and there are challenges every day, but overcoming challenges is why we all have jobs. We can get down about why something is difficult, but we should be celebrating the fact that we have the chance to demonstrate our ability to help others reach their goals.” — Paul Pirkle, President, WOW 12/3/19

“Adapting to change can be difficult. Helping to make [something] run as smoothly as possible makes customers happy. When markets are down and pricing isn’t strong, finding other ways to make customers happy is critical. If it’s not pricing, customers at least expect strong service, and they still expect you to meet their needs everywhere else.” – Alan Surdyk, Plant manager, WOW 2/19/2020

“It’s the little things that add up to the big things. Thinking about what will make someone else more successful instead of what will get something off your plate and onto the next task is critical to being relentless. — Paul Pirkle, President, WOW 3/5/2020

“It’s our job to provide a service and solve recycling problems without placing blame. We are faced with a situation we haven’t previously faced, so we must take action we haven’t previously taken.” — Lindsey Villanueva, Office Manager, WOW, 11/25/19

“The value we bring to our customers and suppliers is that we know this industry and its cyclical nature. There will be a solution to a problem. Most importantly, we know it will take hard work, time, dedication and understanding to get where we need to go.” – Paul Pirkle, President, WOW 11/14/19

WOWs during the coronavirus pandemic:

“We make history today at Mid America Paper as it is the first official day of a remote schedule for our Customer Service team … It’s so especially important that we adapt to the world around us and roll with these changes. If we do our best to really focus on what our customers and colleagues need, I think we will all find that we will WOW, and we will WIN.” — Lindsey Villanueva, Office Manager, WOW 3/18/2020

“…We have to be grateful working in an industry dependent on our product, in which demand is currently high for what we process, buy, and sell. Despite all the challenging news stories we are hearing … we can hold our heads high and realize that we have an opportunity today to WOW someone with what we personally do for them… This is when we can step up and do something special for someone and let them know we will honor our commitments and take a load from their shoulders. There are so many stories of businesses that are challenged right now. We may also have this come to us, but we can stave off the impact of COVID-19 by being intentional about what we are doing.” —Paul Pirkle, President, WOW 3/26/2020

“We have been more proactive updating our website and social media platforms, MAPR employees [attend] more industry related conferences than ever, we are putting literature/brochures in more people’s hands than ever… we celebrate the good and we correct the bad, and work every day towards WOW. We have done a lot to be something other than ‘just another recycler’ in Chicago.” – Alan Surdyk, Plant Manager, WOW 4/21/2020

“In what seems like the blink of an eye, our lives have all been disrupted…Our daily routines have been upended, and it’s easy to get overwhelmed, drowning in a sea of confusion. What’s happening? When things spin out of our control, one of the best things is to remind ourselves nothing lasts forever. Stay focused on what you can control and remember that this too, shall pass … When tough times leave us feeling unsure and uncertain, a sense of community can be the powerful force we need to maintain hope despite what feels like constant disruption.”—Training services provider, Carew International, 3/20/2020

“It is in times of adversity when the true colors come out in people. These terrible and sad issues we are dealing with should bring us closer together as a team and as a company. If there was ever a time to pick each other up, it’s right now…One off the most important things to do for a company practicing continuous improvement is to look at each employee as a leader. It is, after all, the workers on the ‘front lines’ that companies rely on to provide feedback or insight into what we can do differently, create additional value.”—Alan Surdyk, Plant Manager, WOW, 3/23/2020

“We need to look back on this time with a feeling of accomplishment. We are going to be impacted by this personally, and are going to be inconvenienced, face hardships and challenging situations when it comes to working this way. We have been communicating for months that we need to prepare and execute. It’s game time, and I like our chances of succeeding with the team… Thank you all for what you have done, what you are doing, and what you will do to make Mid America Paper Recycling an exemplary company for service and attention to the details.” — Paul Pirkle, President, WOW 3/19/2020

“There I was in a negative mental space, ready to make excuses for all of my responsibilities, with the words of this behavior slapping me in the face. I put my arms around the most wonderful part of my life – my WILL – and I thought, where there’s a WILL, there’s a way, and turned my mindset around. Just like that. Thank you MAPR Behavior # 18 [Find a Way] for showing up precisely when I needed…” – Lindsey Villanueva, Office Manager, WOW, 05/07/2020

“… by taking the time to talk to our customers, get to know them and their operation, what their issues and strong suites are, educate them, provide them with honest feedback, we are still growing the worth of their waste. There is monetary value for superior customer service.” — Alan Surdyk, Plant Manager, WOW, 5/15/2020

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Modex 2020 — Chicago, IL — Mid America Paper Recycling Co Inc

See us at MODEX 2020, EXHIBITION AND SEMINARS

midamericappr · Jan 23, 2020 · Leave a Comment

MARCH 9 – 12, 2020

See us at MODEX 2020, EXHIBITION AND SEMINARS, Booth 6392

Mid America Paper Recycling will exhibit at Modex 2020, March 9-12, at the Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta. The show/conference features advancements in supply chain solutions, materials handling equipment and technology and logistics and smart systems. Hosted by The Material Handling Industry of America. modexshow.com

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Serc — Chicago, IL — Mid America Paper Recycling Co Inc

See Mid America at the 2020 SERC 2020, SOUTHEAST RECYCLING CONFERENCE & TRADE SHOW

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MARCH 15-18

See Mid America Paper Recycling at the 2020 SERC 2020, SOUTHEAST RECYCLING CONFERENCE & TRADE SHOW Hilton Sandestin Beach Golf Resort & Spa, Miramar Beach (Destin), Fla. Trade Show: March 15-17; Conference: March 15-18. The 33rd show from organizer Southern Waste Information Exchange provides the recycling industry with solutions, valuable contacts and productive networking opportunities. southernwasteinformationexchange.com

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Cpa — Chicago, IL — Mid America Paper Recycling Co Inc

We’re visiting the CONTRACT PACKAGING ASSOCIATION’S ANNUAL MEETING

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FEBRUARY 19 – 21, 2020

Mid America Paper Recycling to attend the CONTRACT PACKAGING ASSOCIATION’S ANNUAL MEETING, El Conquistador Tucson, A Hilton Resort, Tucson, Ariz. Featuring exhibitions, panel discussions, networking events and presentations, with automation and e-commerce tracks in the afternoon. contractpackaging.org

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Mid America Paper Recycling to educate visitors on Increasing Revenue from Recyclable Waste at MODEX 2022

midamericappr · Oct 1, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Chicago — September 30, 2019 — First time exhibitor Mid America Paper Recycling (booth 221) plans to showcase the benefits of an industry-first waste audit report and explain recycling best practices at the TAPPI CorrExpo, October 14-16 at the Denver Convention Center.

One of the largest independent brokers, processors and exporters of recovered paper in the Central United States, Chicago-based MAPR has deep roots in the printing industry dating back to when it was founded in 1926. As large commercial printers and paperboard converters search for new methods to improve their revenue sources, MAPR’s experience in the recycling process can likely help them.

“I felt our decision to exhibit at TAPPI CorrExpo for the first time this year was a natural. We have been working with paper industry and corrugated users for years,” said Paul Pirkle, who joined Mid America Paper Recycling as president last year.

“This year we have shifted the focus to educating our customers about the hidden benefits of their waste. We plan to do the same with those who visit our booth and explain the tremendous value there is in having a continuous improvement plan in place. Our staff will explain how it works and why it is a key component for all types of companies, from small businesses to the Fortune 500.”

Pirkle recently attended AICC, The Independent Packaging Association’s annual meeting in Toronto, September 16-18. He said the leadership conference opened the door to some worthwhile discussions.

“We are relatively new members of AICC and I found it to be a great venue for networking. Some of the conversations allowed me the opportunity to talk about our new Audit Process,” said Pirkle. “It gave me the chance to explain the steps involved and how they can grow the worth of the waste that is produced. The overall continuous improvement process that encompasses waste generation, in-plant processes, safety, and logistics are all researched so that our customers can recognize more revenue per ton. I’m expecting to have good conversations in Denver as well.”

Since the manufacturing operations of paper or containerboard facilities often create tons of waste annually – ranging from pre-consumer, high-grade recyclable paper to production trim and paperboard – Mid America’s Audit Process can help companies realize significant revenues. Pirkle believes the timing is right to begin a dialogue now.

“Many corrugators understand that the economics of waste streams are cyclical. So it is vital to establish a program with process steps that encompass waste generation, collection procedures, and setting goals and objectives to improve revenue contributions,” said Pirkle.

“At corrugated and converting plants, we usually find ways to improve an inadequate process and/or non-compliance from their employees. Even though best practices have not been widely shared in our industry, our Audit Process is a huge step in the right direction. Combined with the expertise of our staff, we have all the tools in place to help. That’s the message we want to hit home at TAPPI CorrExpo. Most people don’t realize their waste is worth more than they think it is.”

For those interested in filling out the free Waste Audit Survey, it takes only 10 minutes to complete online. Or learn more by stopping by booth 221 at TAPPI CorrExpo and talking to MAPR representatives who can answer all of your questions.

ABOUT MID AMERICA PAPER RECYCLING

Founded in 1926, Mid America Paper Recycling is a fourth-generation leader in the recycling industry and provides solutions for partners ranging from small businesses to large multinational corporations. Its robust program features a new benchmarking audit, consultation services, documentation, quantification and presentation of the specific and overall values that can be realized from customer waste streams. To learn more about the free waste audit and Mid America’s other environmental initiatives, call 773-890-5454 or visit www.midamericapaper.com.

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Mid America Launches Quality Initiative for Paperboard Industry to Generate Increased Revenues from Waste

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Chicago — September 19, 2019 — Mid America Paper Recycling (MAPR), one of the largest independent brokers, processors and exporters of recovered paper in the Central United States, is launching a first-of-its-kind initiative focused on tracking and increasing the value of the recycling waste streams generated by large commercial printers and paperboard converters.

“The folding carton industry, for example, shipped about five million tons of product last year,” explained Paul Pirkle, president of Mid America Paper Recycling. “We work closely with these operators and all companies that recycle waste paper to create a continuous improvement process that helps them identify where waste is generated, establish key collection procedures, and set objectives that will continually improve their waste stream’s revenue contribution to the business.”

According to Mid America executives, the manufacturing operations of a typical paper or containerboard plant can generate thousands of tons of pre-consumer, high-grade recyclable paper, production trim waste and paperboard waste annually, which in turn, can generate significant revenues for the company.

Mid America’s innovative recycling management program helps producers build a scorecard process by benchmarking, monitoring and continuously upgrading their recycling operations to help them reach their sustainability goals and grow the financial worth of their waste. In the transactional, spot-market oriented business of paper recycling, MAPR’s continuous improvement initiative is a first of its kind.

“No other company has offered as comprehensive and value-added a solution until now,” adds Pirkle. “We understand the challenges and shortcomings companies face in dealing with recycling vendors, equipment, labor and transportation issues. Recyclable materials can be wasted, which doesn’t meet anyone’s environmental goals or boost revenue. But they can also be a significant value-added contributor to the recycler’s profitability if professionally managed. We perform onsite customer assessments and reviews to help them learn how to effectively manage these materials and help them exceed their expectations.”

The Industry’s First Online Waste Audit Survey

The first step in the continuous improvement process is MAPR’s new, free Waste Audit Survey, which takes only 10 minutes for customers to fill out online but is comprehensive in scope. It’s so easy to use, customers can launch it on their smartphones via a QR code and take the survey immediately.

Serving as an initial “recycling health scorecard,” the survey results help MAPR determine how each customer captures and recycles waste materials, what’s working and what’s not.

“The audit concept was based on an in-depth voice of customer study we conducted to better understand the challenges our customers face,” Pirkle adds. “Continuous Improvement is so important to organizations today in many other areas of their operations, so this audit was designed to bring this same strategic process to their current waste handling practices and build a smart program that continuously improves the worth of their waste.”

Responses to the survey questions are associated with a point scale and averaged into five categories to achieve a scale percentage. This determines an overall waste assessment grade for the customer’s “recycling health,” which the company uses to create an individual recycling plan that maximizes facility efficiency, safety, and updates employee training procedures.

The audit taxonomy assesses areas including:

Current operating procedures
Organizational goals
Frequency of recycling reports issued, reviewed and updated
Waste volumes
How customers train staff to maintain safety, logistics, handling and efficiencies

Revenues and financial goals
Level of service received
Equipment and labor involved
Continuous improvement objectives
Safety, preventative maintenance programs in place

The customer “scorecard” is just the beginning of the quality initiative. After taking the survey, MAPR’s hands-on team of experts then develops a custom plan to improve such aspects as the flow of waste through a customer’s facilities, eliminate cost streams, conserve and capture the most value possible. The customer receives a free report, and a plan tailored to upgrade their recycling processes and increase revenue growth.

Next, MAPR proceeds with follow-up conversations, onsite visits, mill assessments to match the best one to each paper grade, quarterly reviews on flow reports, rates, payments, recycling values, logistics coordination and more.

Progress in terms of revenues and environmental impacts are also tracked every step of the way, and the data is fed throughout the customer’s operation through regular management reports.

“We find every angle available to minimize waste and maximize returns, support customers by optimizing services and improve training, safety and value, with the visibility and transparency the operation needs,” Pirkle concludes. “Our vision is to become a significant value-added contributor to the paper converter’s waste generation profitability.”

To learn more about the continuous improvement initiative, start by taking the survey at www.midamericapaper.com or follow the link on your smartphone with the QR code imprinted below.

ABOUT MID AMERICA PAPER RECYCLING

Founded in 1926, Mid America Paper Recycling is a fourth-generation leader in the recycling industry and provides solutions for partners ranging from small businesses to large multinational corporations. Its robust program features a new benchmarking audit, consultation services, documentation, quantification and presentation of the specific and overall values that can be realized from customer waste streams. To learn more about the free waste audit and Mid America’s other environmental initiatives, call 773-890-5454 or visit www.midamericapaper.com.

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The New Mid America Paper Recycling Waste Audit Survey is here and it’s free! After taking the survey, the customer receives a free report and a plan tailored to upgrade their recycling processes and increase revenue growth.

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It takes just 10 minutes to start growing the worth of your recycling waste. Follow the survey link on your smartphone with this QR code or visit: www.surveymonkey.com/r/MAPRAudit.

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New Website — Chicago, IL — Mid America Paper Recycling Co Inc

Mid America Launches New Website

midamericappr · Jul 22, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Mid America Paper Recycling debuts new Website

Chicago, Illinois – July 15, 2019 – Mid America Paper Recycling has introduced a fresh new and informative website. Designed to educate and promote the value the company has to offer the industry, the website accomplishes this goal in a number of ways. It clearly communicates the mission and vision of Mid America Paper Recycling, and provides concise information ranging from the various types of Service Solutions of materials and processes, to Recycling Programs and materials the company recycles. There’s also a free waste audit available to help customers develop a plan to improve the flow of waste through their facilities, eliminate cost streams and capture the most value possible. Visit the new site at www.midamericapaper.com.

About Mid America Paper Recycling

Mid America Paper Recycling has been a leader in the recycling industry since 1926. Headquartered in Chicago, the company was founded with a vision to help companies develop successful recycling programs. Today it is one of the largest independent brokers, processors, and exporters of recovered paper in the Central United States. Their experienced recycling professionals are active in industry associations and serve on boards and committees that help set the direction of where our industry is heading into the future. For more information, call 773-890-5454 or visit www.midamericapaper.com.

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Tappi CorrExpo — Chicago, IL — Mid America Paper Recycling Co Inc

See us at CorrExpo

midamericappr · Jul 17, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Mid America Paper Recycling to exhibit at TAPPI CorrExpo

Chicago, Illinois – June 17, 2019 – Mid America Paper Recycling plans to exhibit (booth 221) at this year’s TAPPI CorrExpo, taking place October 14-16 at the Denver Convention Center. The event brings together one of the largest groups of paper industry decision makers and often attracts engaging keynote speakers. It’s the ideal audience to be in front to explain our message on Growing the Worth of Your Waste. Check back later for an update and more information.

About Mid America Paper Recycling

Mid America Paper Recycling has been a leader in the recycling industry since 1926. Headquartered in Chicago, the company was founded with a vision to help companies develop successful recycling programs. Today it is one of the largest independent brokers, processors, and exporters of recovered paper in the Central United States. Their experienced recycling professionals are active in industry associations and serve on boards and committees that help set the direction of where our industry is heading into the future. For more information, call 773-890-5454 or visit www.midamericapaper.com.

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Aicc — Chicago, IL — Mid America Paper Recycling Co Inc

See Mid America at AICC ANNUAL MEETING

midamericappr · Mar 15, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Pirkle to deliver Mid America Paper Recycling’s message to Packaging industry at upcoming AICC Conference

Chicago, Illinois – July 24, 2019 – Mid America Paper Recycling president Paul Pirkle will have a prominent speaking role at AICC, The Independent Packaging Association’s annual meeting, September 16-18 at the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel in Toronto.

Mr. Pirkle will deliver his talk at one of the Workshop sessions being held at the conference. His speech on Targeting hidden Savings Opportunities in your Indirect Costs will outline the numerous steps involved in Mid America Paper Recycling’s audit process. He also plans to discuss how diverting waste, avoiding expensive dumpster fees, directing important in-plant training initiatives, and managing the process as part of a continuous improvement program can produce a significant profit for any organization.

He will be front-and-center with a curious audience. AICC, The Independent Packaging Association represents and protects the business members in the independent sector of the Corrugated, Folding Carton and Rigid Box industries. Founded in 1974, it is the largest organization of corporate members involved in Corrugated and Paperboard and is affiliated with the International Corrugated Packaging Foundation (ICPF), which supports greater public and student understanding of the global Corrugated Packaging industry. AICC also promotes the products and role it plays in the world’s distribution system.

About Mid America Paper Recycling

Mid America Paper Recycling has been a leader in the recycling industry since 1926. Headquartered in Chicago, the company was founded with a vision to help companies develop successful recycling programs. Today it is one of the largest independent brokers, processors, and exporters of recovered paper in the Central United States. Their experienced recycling professionals are active in industry associations and serve on boards and committees that help set the direction of where our industry is heading into the future. For more information, call 773-890-5454 or visit www.midamericapaper.com.

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1/30/2019 – Mid America Featured in AICC BOX SCORE BIG ASSOCIATE ISSUE

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Mid America Paper Recycling joins AICC Association

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Mid America Paper Recycling appoints new president

midamericappr · Aug 29, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Paul Pirkle appointed President at Mid America Paper Recycling

Chicago, Illinois – August 29, 2018 – Mid America Paper Recycling announced today that Paul Pirkle has been selected for the role of president. Don Gaines has transitioned to chief executive officer at the privately held company in Chicago.

Pirkle has spent over 24 years in the printing industry. Most recently, Pirkle presided over three highly successful years as president/CEO of Rolling Meadows-based Modagrafics. There, Pirkle led the transformation of Modagrafics into a leading graphics solutions provider to the transportation fleets of major retailers and consumer goods brands. During his tenure, he grew sales with new and existing accounts, implemented production management practices, invested in new capital equipment and ERP software technology, expanded the products and services portfolio, and introduced mobile tracking technology that improved operations and customer satisfaction.

Mr. Pirkle stated, “I am thrilled to be joining Mid America Paper Recycling and look forward to hitting the ground running as president. I am excited by the prospect of working alongside Don Gaines, our management team and Mid America’s employees to accelerate the company’s growth and realize the full potential of our team’s offering.”

“Building a strong culture and bringing focus and innovation all to add value to customers is what I admired most about Paul,” added Gaines. “I look forward to seeing Paul lead the company into its next phase of growth.”

About Mid America Paper Recycling

Mid America Paper Recycling has been a leader in the recycling industry since 1926. Headquartered in Chicago, the company was founded with a vision to help companies develop successful recycling programs. Today it is one of the largest independent brokers, processors, and exporters of recovered paper in the Central United States. Their experienced recycling professionals are active in industry associations and serve on boards and committees that help set the direction of where our industry is heading into the future. For more information, call 773-890-5454 or visit www.midamericapaper.com.

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See Mid America at AICC ANNUAL MEETING

midamericappr · Mar 15, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Pirkle to deliver Mid America Paper Recycling’s message to Packaging industry at upcoming AICC Conference

Chicago, Illinois – July 24, 2019 – Mid America Paper Recycling president Paul Pirkle will have a prominent speaking role at AICC, The Independent Packaging Association’s annual meeting, September 16-18 at the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel in Toronto.

Mr. Pirkle will deliver his talk at one of the Workshop sessions being held at the conference. His speech on Targeting hidden Savings Opportunities in your Indirect Costs will outline the numerous steps involved in Mid America Paper Recycling’s audit process. He also plans to discuss how diverting waste, avoiding expensive dumpster fees, directing important in-plant training initiatives, and managing the process as part of a continuous improvement program can produce a significant profit for any organization.

He will be front-and-center with a curious audience. AICC, The Independent Packaging Association represents and protects the business members in the independent sector of the Corrugated, Folding Carton and Rigid Box industries. Founded in 1974, it is the largest organization of corporate members involved in Corrugated and Paperboard and is affiliated with the International Corrugated Packaging Foundation (ICPF), which supports greater public and student understanding of the global Corrugated Packaging industry. AICC also promotes the products and role it plays in the world’s distribution system.

About Mid America Paper Recycling

Mid America Paper Recycling has been a leader in the recycling industry since 1926. Headquartered in Chicago, the company was founded with a vision to help companies develop successful recycling programs. Today it is one of the largest independent brokers, processors, and exporters of recovered paper in the Central United States. Their experienced recycling professionals are active in industry associations and serve on boards and committees that help set the direction of where our industry is heading into the future. For more information, call 773-890-5454 or visit www.midamericapaper.com.

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1/30/2019 – Mid America Featured in AICC BOX SCORE BIG ASSOCIATE ISSUE

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Mid America Paper Recycling joins AICC Association

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Mid America Paper Recycling appoints new president

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Paul Pirkle appointed President at Mid America Paper Recycling

Chicago, Illinois – August 29, 2018 – Mid America Paper Recycling announced today that Paul Pirkle has been selected for the role of president. Don Gaines has transitioned to chief executive officer at the privately held company in Chicago.

Pirkle has spent over 24 years in the printing industry. Most recently, Pirkle presided over three highly successful years as president/CEO of Rolling Meadows-based Modagrafics. There, Pirkle led the transformation of Modagrafics into a leading graphics solutions provider to the transportation fleets of major retailers and consumer goods brands. During his tenure, he grew sales with new and existing accounts, implemented production management practices, invested in new capital equipment and ERP software technology, expanded the products and services portfolio, and introduced mobile tracking technology that improved operations and customer satisfaction.

Mr. Pirkle stated, “I am thrilled to be joining Mid America Paper Recycling and look forward to hitting the ground running as president. I am excited by the prospect of working alongside Don Gaines, our management team and Mid America’s employees to accelerate the company’s growth and realize the full potential of our team’s offering.”

“Building a strong culture and bringing focus and innovation all to add value to customers is what I admired most about Paul,” added Gaines. “I look forward to seeing Paul lead the company into its next phase of growth.”

About Mid America Paper Recycling

Mid America Paper Recycling has been a leader in the recycling industry since 1926. Headquartered in Chicago, the company was founded with a vision to help companies develop successful recycling programs. Today it is one of the largest independent brokers, processors, and exporters of recovered paper in the Central United States. Their experienced recycling professionals are active in industry associations and serve on boards and committees that help set the direction of where our industry is heading into the future. For more information, call 773-890-5454 or visit www.midamericapaper.com .

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Label Release Liner Added to ISRI Paperstock Guidelines

midamericappr · April 2022 · Leave a Comment

TLMI, Milford, Ohio, announces that the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), Washington, has approved the addition of a specialty grade of paperstock to its guidelines for paper stock contained in the ISRI Scrap Specifications Circular. During the Institute’s spring board meeting in March, ISRI’s Paper Division recommended to its Board of Directors that the specialty grade be added to the circular and referenced as “37-S Silicone Release Liner.”

TLMI and the industry’s CELAB (Circular Economy for Labels) Consortium submitted the addition to the guideline circular. Founded by companies in the self-adhesive label industry, CELAB strives to create greater environmental circularity for its products by enhancing and promoting label liner matrix and release liner recycling. TLMI and CELAB jointly requested the creation of a bale specification for silicone release liner at the end of 2021, and an ISRI working group reviewed and researched the request. The decision to create a specialty grade classification was passed by the Paper Division in early February.

“The ISRI specialty specification will help others understand that the liner can be recycled,” notes Chuck Williams, CELAB’s Technical Workstream Co-chair and Senior Technical Director at Avery Dennison. “The ISRI specialty specification will help others understand that the liner can be recycled. The liners that the label industry uses are high quality papers and have high recycle value. We have proven that the release coating can be managed in recycling systems and hope this helps paper manufacturers in adopting a higher use rate of this quality feed stream.”

Recently, Mid America’s President, Paul Pirkle, spoke with some of CELAB’s members about the subject. CELAB members include companies up and down the value chain of the matrix and liner industry. “As a recycler, Mid America is researching options, solutions and outlets for effectively recycling this material going forward,” he said. “It’s good to know there is more interest today in providing a sustainable solution for label release liner and matrix materials versus sending the product to a landfill. Paper release liners and silicone backing papers are good fiber materials that certain customers want.”

Having a grade code to support the collection and recycling of used liner material demonstrates the value of used liner to the market, further explains Timothy Rummel, CELAB Technical Workstream Co-chair and Technical Manager, Performance Materials - Paper Coatings at Wacker Chemie. “Liner can only be made with premium, highly refined fiber, and once the market realizes this, we believe end users will begin to seek it out.”

Need a recycling partner for your label liner products? Contact Mid America Paper Recycling at info@midamericapaper.com. More details about this news are available at https://tlmi.com/news.

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