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Global recyclers take
the stage in Music City
With a record-breaking 6 600 attendees, the ISRI2023 Convention & Exposition in
Nashville was a big hit. What’s more, recycling equipment and tech suppliers
reported full order books.
Broadway to be the big attraction,
rather than the latest trends in recy-
cling.
But when ISRI comes to town, things
are a little different. Or, as ISRI chair
Brian Henesey put it in his opening
words on the main stage of the
Nashville Music Center, ‘You did not
come here for the music; you did not
come here for the coffee; not to see
me. You’ve come here to network, to
learn, to see old friends and new, and
to buy equipment. You’re here
because you care about your business
and your industry.’
According to Henesey, recyclers
should be proud of themselves. ‘In a
In the city that gave country heroes
like Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison and
Dolly Parton their fame and glory you
would expect the live music in the
honky-tonk bars on Nashville’s
South
Africa’s David
Loewenthal
(left) and
Shannon
Brenner of
Universal
Recycling
Company.
A U T H O R / P H O T O S Martijn Reintjes
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