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Recruiting real talent not easy


September 7, 2012 6:00 am ET

Extraordinary individuals and top performers in business are often called game-changing players. Every company understands that you need these unique individuals if you want to dominate your industry.

Don't dismiss marine debris


August 24, 2012 6:00 am ET

As a longtime member of the plastics industry deeply concerned with the issue of plastic marine debris, I feel the need to comment on Chandler Slavin’s Perspective in your Aug. 13 issue [Page 6].

In recycling, numbers matter


August 17, 2012 6:00 am ET

The recent push to move to “education without the numbers” is misguided and may be damaging. This new approach to plastics recycling education has caused quite a stir, following the July 31 promotional webinar, and for good reason.

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Plastics' foes wage campaign on social media battleground


August 10, 2012 6:00 am ET

A July 6 PlasticsNews.com article titled “Seabird study shows spike in plastic ocean litter” describes a University of British Columbia study that examined the stomach contents of beached northern fulmars (seabirds similar to gulls) in ...

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Don't sell plastics victories short


July 13, 2012 6:00 am ET

I read the ending of your recent blog post “Who won the battle with ‘Big Plastic’?” [“The Plastics Blog” by Don Loepp, June 28] as a jab at the job SPI and our allied organizations are doing to promote and protect ...

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Protracted hiring procedures can let top picks get away


June 29, 2012 6:00 am ET

Today, there’s a need for speed in your hiring practices and in order to keep pace, your company must be fast-moving, flexible and nimble. The main reason? In-demand talent doesn’t wait.

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Fracking’s future still on hold


June 22, 2012 6:00 am ET

The “fracking revolution” — improved hydraulic fracturing techniques — has liberated enormous quantities of crude oil, and especially natural gas, from previously uneconomic deposits trapped deep underground in isolated...

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Election brings back Cambridge


June 1, 2012 6:00 am ET

Mitt Romney’s history with a plastics company is now a campaign issue. So since we’re likely to hear more about it in the next five months, let’s take a closer look.

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