Shared with permission from Resource Recycling Inc. magazine.

Industry Sends Recycling Philosopher into Retirement

From the August 14, 2023 article:

During his decades in the recycling industry, Michael Timpane has made a huge impact on a number of companies and local recycling programs. But perhaps more important is the way he has uplifted and inspired the people around him.

Timpane, who speaks today on a markets panel at the Resource Recycling Conference in Orlando, is retiring from full-time work at the end of this year. And this morning’s session will be his final presentation at a national conference.

To mark the occasion, Resource Recycling received comments from a number of sector professionals who have worked closely with Timpane during his career – a stretch that started in the 1970s at Reynolds Aluminum Company and included tenures at BFI, Waste Management (now WM) and, most recently, the consultancy RRS.

Timpane has also been a regular contributor to the pages of Resource Recycling, providing recycling pros with in-depth analysis of recycling economics, stakeholder coordination, facility operations and more.

Below are some of the perspectives offered by sector leaders who have known him over the years as a colleague, mentor, friend and, in at least one case, “the Timpaniac.”

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