{"621420":{"#nid":"621420","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Matthew Realff Awarded for Recycling Work","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe industry organization Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) has awarded Matthew Realff\u0026nbsp;with a Person of the Year award for his longstanding research contributions in the field of carpet recycling.\u0026nbsp;Prof. Realff is the David Wang Senior Faculty Fellow and Professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.\u0026nbsp;\u201cI cannot even begin to imagine doing the work of CARE without the keen mind of Dr. Realff. We have collaborated since the beginning of his tenure at Georgia\u0026nbsp;Tech. Mass balances, process technology, greenhouse gas analysis, reverse supply chain logistics, Matthew helps with it all,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;Bob Peoples,\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003ECARE\u0027s Executive Director.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProf. Realff\u2019s\u0026nbsp;research focuses on waste minimization and recovery. He\u0026nbsp;earned a Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Engineering in 1986 from Imperial College, London and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe industry organization Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) has awarded Matthew Realff\u0026nbsp;with a Person of the Year award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The industry organization Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) has awarded Matthew Realff\u00a0with a Person of the Year award."}],"uid":"27338","created_gmt":"2019-05-06 23:06:15","changed_gmt":"2025-06-18 14:14:40","author":"Brent Verrill","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"621879":{"id":"621879","type":"image","title":"Matthew Realff Receiving CARE Award","body":null,"created":"1558537423","gmt_created":"2019-05-22 15:03:43","changed":"1558537423","gmt_changed":"2019-05-22 15:03:43","alt":"Professor Matthew Realff Receives the Carpet America Recovery Effort Person of the Year Award from CARE representative.","file":{"fid":"236881","name":"carerealff.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/carerealff.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/carerealff.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":313161,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/carerealff.jpg?itok=HccvieWm"}}},"media_ids":["621879"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/carpetrecovery.org\/","title":"Carpet Area Recovery Effort Website"}],"groups":[{"id":"244191","name":"Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems"}],"categories":[{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"176639","name":"Matthew Realff"},{"id":"3551","name":"carpet"},{"id":"1153","name":"recycling"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"194566","name":"Sustainable Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:brent.verrill@sustainable.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EBrent Verrill\u003C\/a\u003E, Communications Manager, BBISS\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["brent.verrill@sustainable.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}