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* Sandy Blalock
Sandy Blalock, President of automotive recycling facility Truck & Auto

Parts of Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, has been installed as the 2007-
2008 President of the US Automotive Recyclers Association (ARA) at the
body’s 64th Annual Convention and Exposition held in Orlando, Florida.
Most recently, she served as the association’s First Vice President and
has been on the ARA Executive Committee since 2005. She is the second
female to serve as President of the ARA.

Sandy Blalock began her automotive recycling career in 1993 after spend-
ing 22 years in the prosthetics and orthotics field. As President of a family-
owned late model automotive recycling facility, she also served as the NM
Automotive Recycling Association President for four years and continues to
serve on the board of directors, working primarily on government affairs.

www.a-r-a.org

* Graham Davy
The world’s largest metal recycler, Australia’s Sims Group Ltd, has

appointed Graham Davy as head of their European Unit & Sims
Recycling Solutions (SRS) – Global. Since 2000, he has held the position of
Managing Director – SRS.

Senior executives reporting to Mr Davy will include: Tom Bird,
Managing Director, Sims Group UK; and Hans Otto Hagemann,
Managing Director, SRS – Continental Europe. Mr Bird will have an
expanded role encompassing Sims’ UK Recycling Solutions business, in
addition to his current responsibilities for UK Metals Recycling.
Mr Hagemann joined Sims following the October 2006 acquisition of
Metall + Recycling GmbH, of which he was the major shareholder.

www.sims-group.com

* Vic Cocker
Founding Chairman of the UK’s Waste & Resources Action

Programme (WRAP) Vic Cocker is to retire after seven years in the post.
Mr Cocker, aged 66, says his decision was part of a move to bring fresh
blood to the WRAP board while reducing his public commitments.
He delayed his decision to oversee the settling-in of WRAP CEO Liz
Goodwin who took up the post in April this year.

Mr Cocker comments: ‘Since we began, the recycling industry’s
turnover has doubled; it is now capable of processing an extra 5.8 million
tonnes per year and recycling rates have escalated dramatically. This is
an achievement for the whole sector from which we have received an
enormous amount of support.’ Mr Cocker will remain in post for approxi-
mately six months to oversee the appointment of a new Chairman.

www.wrap.org.uk

People

N E W S

Anthony Pratt has promised to
invest US$ 1 billion (Euro 700 mil-
lion) over a 10-year period in recy-
cling initiatives at his USA-based
Pratt Industries to tackle global
warming as well as to boost his com-
pany’s bottom line.

Mr Pratt is Chairman and CEO of
Pratt Industries, a sister company of
Visy Corp. which is run by his father
Dick Pratt. The Australian business-
man announced the investment
pledge in New York at the celebrity-
studded third Clinton Global
Initiative conference spearheaded by
former US president Bill Clinton.

The US$ 1 billion will finance at
least three recycled paper mills and
four waste-to-energy plants. Mr Pratt
said he hoped to help create a ‘recy-
cling movement’ in the USA, adding
that his company’s recycling rate for
paper and cardboard products such
as a pizza boxes was around 55% in
the USA compared to nearer 65% in
Australia and up to 75% in Japan
and Germany.

During the conference, Mr Pratt
acknowledged that the green move-
ment made good business sense for
Pratt Industries and represented an
‘opportunity’. The investment will
cover, for example, a third recycled
paper mill in Shreveport, Louisiana,
and the company’s first waste-to-
energy plan to convert wood waste
into power at Conyers, Georgia.

Bill Clinton’s three-day get-togeth-
er attracted actors Brad Pitt and
Angelina Jolie, Archbishop Desmond
Tutu, former US Vice-President Al
Gore and former British Prime
Minister Tony Blair. The Clinton
Global Initiative works towards tack-
ling climate change, poverty, health
and education issues across the
world. The first two initiatives saw
more than US$ 10 billion (Euro 7 bil-
lion) pledged to global causes.

Billion-dollar
investment promise

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