Recycling Industry Veteran, Maite Quinn-Richards, Joins International Recycling Group Board
ERIE, PA—Large-scale plastics mechanical recycling plant developer, International Recycling Group, LLC (IRG), appointed recycling industry veteran, Maite Quinn-Richards, to the Board of Directors of its controlling partnership, GreenSteel, LLC.
Drawing from her experience working with some of the largest recyclers in the country and serving on several industry boards, Quinn-Richards will be supporting the group with respect to IRG’s development of partnerships throughout the entire sustainable plastics value chain. She will help strengthen connections with consumer products groups, recyclers, and distributors of post-consumer resins.
“We’re incredibly excited to have Maite join our team. Her wealth of experience and passion for recycling will be a great asset in helping us achieve our zero-plastic-waste vision for the future,” commented Mitch Hecht, Founder and CEO of IRG.
Maite Quinn-Richards is a highly accomplished industry executive with extensive experience in private equity and business development. She co-led the Closed Loop Leadership Fund at Closed Loop Partners, where she played a critical role in managing the fund’s portfolio and leading strategic acquisitions. As President of Re-Colab, Quinn-Richards collaborated with clients such as Nestle and GDB International to achieve their circular economy goals. Her career also included key roles at Sims Municipal Recycling, where she expanded market presence and led business development efforts for the largest commingled recycled plant in North America, and at Sprint Recycling, where she managed operations for the largest privately held recycling company in the New York-New Jersey area.
Quinn-Richards holds an MBA from Baruch College and has served on several industry boards, including Resource Recycling, Inc. and the Association of Plastic Recyclers.
About International Recycling Group
Based in Erie, Pa, International Recycling Group (IRG) is developing one of the country’s largest plastics mechanical recycling plants to process all types and grades of plastic scrap. In the United States, according to EPA estimates, less than 9 percent of all plastics that enter the municipal solid waste stream are recycled. Combined with plastic scrap generated by industrial and commercial industries, we estimate that over 50 million tons annually of plastic scrap are destined for landfills. Plastic scrap has considerable potential to be repurposed and IRG plans to efficiently utilize this untapped resource. Located on the US Great Lakes, IRG’s new “SuperPRF” will be able to accept ALL types of plastic—not just bottles (the “#1s and #2s”). Thus, “single streaming,” or combining all plastics into a recycling bin or cart for pickup, will now be economically viable.