Steve Alexander

President/CEO at the Association of Plastic Recyclers

Steve Alexander serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR), The Voice of Plastics Recycling®.

As the international trade association representing the plastics recycling industry, membership includes independent recycling companies of all sizes, processing numerous resins, as well as consumer product companies, equipment manufacturers, testing laboratories, organizations, and others committed to the success of plastics recycling. APR serves the plastics recycling industry by providing technical and educational solutions with a goal of creating more good supply of material for recycling and enhancing the quality of the existing supply stream.

Steve is also the president of Resource Recycling, Inc., a publishing and conference management firm. Resource Recycling produces the Plastics Recycling Conference, Resource Recycling Conference, as well as the E-Scrap Conference. It also publishes three trade journals: Resource Recycling, Plastics Recycling Update and E-Scrap News.

Previously, Steve spent more than 20 year representing corporate and association clients on Capitol Hill and in State Houses across the country, including 10 years with Eastman Kodak Company, where he specialized in environment, technology, and appropriations issues. He is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island and holds an MBA from the Sellenger School of Business at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland.