US Ecology, Inc. announced the appointment of Mack L. Hogans as a new independent director of its Board of Directors (the “Board”), increasing the number of directors to ten (10), nine of whom are independent. Hogans, who runs his own consulting firm, was a former executive at Weyerhaeuser Company, a timberlands and wood products company, retiring in 2004 where he served twenty-five (25) years in various leadership roles including Corporate Communications, Environmental, Health and Safety, Governmental Affairs, E-commerce and Supply Chain Management. Prior to joining Weyerhaeuser in 1979, Mr. Hogans worked for the U.S. Forest Service, Maryland National Capital Parks and Planning Commission, and the National Park Service.