Join us for our 35th Annual Recycling & Organics Conference on July 23 - 25, 2025 to hear the latest recycling market news, attend sessions to build your knowledge on educating the public, find solutions to challenges, and network with colleagues.  Conference Attendees and Exhibitors will enjoy the networking, sessions, plenaries, and certification classes that will be available. Preconference Certification & Organics Track Classes will be held on Tuesday, July 22nd.

The Conference Committee has been hard at work building an outstanding program for the 2025 Conference.  We are currently working on speakers / presenters for each of the subjects that were chosen with suggestions from the committee and evaluations from the 2024 conference. Scroll to the bottom of the page to Register for the conference.

We have a designated Organics Track this year at the conference. In coordination with the PROP Certification Committee, the PROP Organics Committee is starting our Certified Compost Professional (CCP) Certification.  Starting in February 2025 through the PROP Conference you will have opportunities to take classes and attend events to acquire the amount of credits/hours of training to sit for a test at the PROP 2025 Conference, pass the test, and have your Certified Compost Professional (CCP) Certificate awarded to you at the PROP Awards Banquet on Thursday July 24th.

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 Early Bird Registration Expires February 28th.

A brief overview of what each day looks like:

Pre-Conference, Tuesday July 22nd: Certification classes as follows:

• Multi stop Reuse tour: Construction Junction / Pittsburgh Center for Reuse / Michael Brothers
• Environmental Justice
• Organics Track – Tour & Hands on Onsite & Theory (Required for CCP)

Wednesday, July 23rd:

• Breakfast & Meet the Exhibitors
• Organics Track - Siting the Compost Facility / Design & Layout (Required for CCP)
• Recycling Multi-family Units / Apartments
• Conference Welcome & Keynote
• Organics Track - Compost Business and Economics (Required for CCP)
• Anti-Littering & Recycling Enforcement
• Recycling Coordinators Corner / Town Hall
• Annual Picnic & Reception

Thursday, July 24th:

• Breakfast with the Exhibitors
• Morning Plenary
• Organics Track - Odor Generation & Control, Surface Water Control (Required for CCP)
• HHW Collections – Multi County Event Based Programs, working with different vendors
• Glass Recycling Session & Updates
• Contract Development
• Battery Session
• Lunch & Members Meeting
• Legislative Updates Plenary
• Waste Management for Events & Venues
• Facility Managers Session
• Circular Economy, Practical Understanding and How it Works
• Recycling Education - Continuously Changing Your Strategy
• Thursday Evening Reception/Banquet & Awards Ceremony

Friday, July 25th

• Breakfast
• Pennsylvania Recycling Markets Center Plenary
• Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Plenary