Meet RLG at the 2025 U.S. Product Stewardship Forum

June 3, 2025 9:00 am

Reverse Logistics Group (RLG) is excited to announce our participation in the 2025 U.S. Product Stewardship Forum, taking place June 3–5, 2025 at The Westin Chicago North Shore in Wheeling, Illinois.

This annual forum is a premier event for product stewardship professionals, policymakers, and sustainability leaders focused on advancing responsible product lifecycle strategies. It offers a space to explore key topics like regulatory compliance, circular economy innovation, and environmental health and safety.

We’re Speaking on the Future of Textile Recycling

We’re excited to share our expertise on a high-impact panel session during the Forum – “Threading the Future: Revolutionizing Textile Recycling Through EPR” on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, from 2:45 PM to 3:45 PM.

This session will bring together policymakers, researchers, and industry leaders – including our team – to explore how Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) can help address the global surge in textile waste. The discussion will cover critical topics such as California’s first in the U.S. EPR legislation for textiles, E.U. developments, infrastructure for collection and recycling, transparency across the supply chain, and sustainable funding strategies for long-term impact.

About RLG

RLG is a global leader in delivering EPR compliance solutions. For 30 years, we’ve partnered with businesses across industries to build and expand programs that align profitability with environmental responsibility. From EPR compliance to advanced data management, RLG is committed to helping organizations achieve their sustainability targets while shaping a more sustainable future.

Let’s Connect

Will you be attending the 2025 U.S. Product Stewardship Forum? We’d love to connect. Whether you’re looking to partner, explore circular innovations, or simply exchange ideas about sustainable stewardship, contact us in advance to set up a meeting.

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We look forward to seeing you in Illinois and joining the conversation on shaping a more sustainable future.

Would you like to learn more about RLG? Contact us here.

Les Griffith - Speakers

Business Development Director
RLGA

Les Griffith is currently the Business Development Director at RLGA and is tasked with expanding the company’s data management offerings for packaging EPR in the Americas. Les has over 30 years of industry experience in Environmental Services, Extended Producer Responsibility and Reverse Distribution. Les has spent these last 30 years working with organizations to develop progressively more sustainable solutions to the management of end-of-life materials. Prior to joining RLG, Les spent eleven years at Covanta most recently serving as the Business Development Director for the Healthcare Solutions division. His group covered North and Central America and specialized in providing a suite of services to healthcare PROs, take-back services to retail pharmacy and law enforcement and environmental services to the healthcare sector and reverse distributors. Prior to Covanta Les spent 10 years at Waste Management Inc. as an Area Manager for their Healthcare Solutions group.

Andriana Kontovrakis - Speakers

Director of Compliance Services
RLG

Andriana Kontovrakis is the Director of Compliance Services for Reverse Logistics Group’s US team.  She manages a team responsible for ensuring manufacturer and retailer customer compliance with EPR laws for electronics, batteries, packaging, household hazardous wastes, and other consumer products across the US. Along with RLG partner the Household and Commercial Products Association, she is spearheading the development of the Household Product Stewardship Alliance, a stewardship organization forming under the guidelines of Vermont’s HHW EPR law.  Prior to working with RLG, she was a Policy Analyst with the global electronics recycler Sims Lifecycle Solutions where she managed programmatic implementation and customer and supplier accounts for the US EPR compliance unit and the Deputy Director for Waste Prevention for the NYC Department of Sanitation.

Meet RLG at the 2025 U.S. Product Stewardship Forum