BOWIE, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce has appointed Tire Industry Association (TIA) CEO Richard Gust to its Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee (ETTAC) for a second time.
Gust will represent TIA and the waste management and recycling segment of the U.S. environmental technology industry on the committee.
The appointment will run through Aug. 12, 2024, when the committee's current charter expires. Gust's previous appointment to the committee began in May 2021.
The committee's role is to provide consensus advice on the development and administration of programs to expand U.S. exports of environmental technologies, goods and services, and products that comply with U.S. environmental, safety and related requirements, according to Commerce Secretary Raimondo.
Well known in the scrap tire field, Gust was named TIA CEO on Jan. 1, 2022. He came to TIA from Liberty Tire Recycling, where he was director of government affairs and president of national account sales. He also is a past president of Lakin Environmental Industries, overseeing operations involving tire retreading, remanufacturing, scrap tire collections and scrap tire processing.
