Entrance to Mohawk Carpet PET Bottle Recycling Plant

Phil Cavin & Post Consumer PET Bottle Bales

Post Consumer PET Bottles

Post Consumer PET Bottles

Polyester fibers from Post Consumer PET Bottles

Polyester Fiber Bale

Mohawk Carpet produced from Post Consumer PET Bottles

Larry Koester & Phil Cavin at Mohawk Carpet

GPEC Tour: Phil Cavin of Mohawk Carpet

Lobby of Sheraton Hotel

GPEC Registration Desk

Mike Montpetit, GPEC Chair Tim Kettering, Environmental Division Chair

Key Note Speaker:

James Kenney

, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Enforcement “Vinyl Chloride Emission Reduction Strategies: How U.S. E.P.A Enforcers working with Industry Achieved Results”

Key Note Speaker: William Carteaux, President Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI) “High Energy Costs: The Future of Plastics”

Thank you to William Carteaux

Thank you to Subu, Awards Chair

Environmental Stewardship Award Winners 2006

Anthony Georges of AMUT

Rodrigo Lima of Ciba Specialty Chemicals

Marcia Miller & Bob Whitehouse of Metabolix

Bob Williamson of PP Recyclers Pty Ltd. - Australia

Jeff Galloway of Shaw Industries

Jeffrey Bailey of Soliant

George Abd of Spartech Corporation

Lisa Owen of NatureWorks & John Stoll of Wal-Mart

Dr. Klementina Khait with Student Poster Winners Napawan Kostiruangchai, Thitisilp Kijchavengkul, Brian Ray

Shalendra Porwal of Battelle Cynthia Bonner of Battelle Rod Jackson & Mary Perigo of QTR

Edward Schut of Creafill

Doug Ritchie of Star Plastics

Danielle Montpetit

William Carteaux Society of the Plastics Industry Brian Larin, Hewlett-Packard Dr. Michael Fisher American Plastics Council

GPEC 2006 Awards Dinner

Gwen Mathis, GPEC Conference Coordinator