Don Loepp is editor of Plastics News and editorial director of Crain’s Global Polymer Group, which includes Sustainable Plastics magazine. He joined Plastics News as a staff reporter in 1991 and was named editor in 2011. Loepp worked at two daily newspapers prior to joining Plastics News. He has been a Plastics Industry Awards judge for several years, and he also judges the Processor of the Year award in North America.