Edward R. (Jack) Cameron
President and Chief Executive Officer
Chairman of the Board

Jack Cameron is ARCA’s president and chief executive officer and focuses on new business development, strategic planning and ground-breaking developments in environmentally responsible recycling and energy efficiency industry standards. In 1976 Cameron founded the company that is now called Appliance Recycling Centers of America. He is a pioneer and authority in the energy-efficiency-through-appliance-recycling industry and has developed and continues to identify new solutions for environmentally sound methods for retiring, disassembling, processing, recycling and disposing of all parts of unwanted appliances.

Cameron also oversees strategic planning for the company’s ApplianceSmart chain of retail stores, which sells new in-the-box and new distressed appliances that ARCA, working directly with major appliance manufacturers, offers consumers at prices discounted considerably from full retail. ApplianceSmart stores sell only new appliances. Through relationships that Cameron has developed with major manufacturers, the company is also able to provide low-cost ENERGY STAR® appliances for utility replacement programs.

Since the late 1980s, Cameron has given dozens of presentations about the efficacy of appliance recycling programs at environmental, materials, utilities, governmental and energy venues and provided testimony for the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Consumer and Environmental Affairs. He was an early advocate for ensuring the proper handling of R-12 and CFC-11 from old refrigerators and freezers, air conditioners and dehumidifiers and the huge energy savings available to electric utilities by retiring these old appliances.

He was selected to represent the appliance recycling industry in the Climate Action Reserve’s 23-member workgroup that was tasked with developing the U.S. Ozone-Depleting Substances Project Protocol for the Destruction of Domestic High GWP Ozone-Depleting Substances. The protocol provides guidance to account for, report and verify GHG emission reductions associated with destruction of high global warming potential ODS that would have otherwise been released to the atmosphere, including ODS used in both foam and refrigerant applications.

Cameron is a member of the Association of Energy Services Professionals and Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, and serves on the board of directors for Resource Plus (formerly MARTA), which is associated with the BrandSource buying group. He was recently elected to the Donor Relations Advisory Board for the Montana State University Foundation and also serves on the Corporate Sponsor Committee of PACER Center, a nonprofit organization that works to expand opportunities and enhance the quality of life of children and young adults with disabilities and their families.

Cameron spent nine years as an account manager at Burroughs Corporation (a predecessor of Unisys Corporation) and spent several years in executive management in the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning industry.

Cameron holds a B.S. in Business Administration (Accounting) from Montana State University (Bozeman).