Levetan Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Steve Levetan, longtime Pull-A-Part executive, was recently recognized as the 2025 recipient of the Recycled Materials Association (ReMA) esteemed Lifetime Achievement Award. Levetan was honored at the ReMA2025 National Convention in San Diego.

Levetan has served the recycled materials industry for more than 50 years. He recently retired from Pull-A-Part. Headquartered in Atlanta, Pull-A-Part is among America’s largest self-serve automotive recycling operations. There, Levetan served as executive vice president.

Pull-A-Part CEO Ross Kogon hailed Levetan’s leadership in the industry saying, “Steve is incredibly deserving of this recognition. He spent a lifetime making this industry and our company better. Recycling policy across the country has been shaped under his leadership.”

Kogon added, “Steve Levetan’s fingerprints and DNA are all over this company as well as the recycling industry.”

Prior to Levetan’s service at Pull-A-Part, he was an owner and operator at his family’s metal and paper recycling company from 1970 to 1986, which was founded in Atlanta, by his grandfather in 1919. After selling the company, Levetan became a policy expert for the recycling industry, opening a public affairs firm that he operated from 1987 to 2005. During this time, he was instrumental in crafting and passing metals theft, solid waste and recycling, and auto recycling legislation.

In 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice appointed Levetan to serve on the Federal Advisory Board of the National Motor Vehicle Title Information System (NMVTIS).

“I am humbled and honored to be named the 2025 ReMA Lifetime Achievement Award recipient,” said Levetan. “I have been privileged to have worked with, and learned from, many of the past recipients; other great friends in the recycled materials industry; and now over 50 years of amazing professional association leadership and staff. It is because of their mentorship that I have been able to help accomplish what we have in this industry.”