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NRC Conference Committee Report to NRC Board 1-24-20
Action Items
1. Based on the input from Board members noted below, we propose the following Motion regarding Attendees List for the National Zero Waste Conference:
“The NRC Board of Directors agrees to provide attendees a published attendee list for the National Zero Waste Conference with name, organization and email, with those already registered and new registrants given the opportunity to opt-out of the list.”
2. Discuss strategy for NRC to play in future for organizing National Zero Waste Conference
a. NRC is on track to achieve its goals for 2020 National Zero Waste Conference
b. Gary Liss is not able to be lead to organize next National Zero Waste Conference. Is anyone else on NRC Board able to be lead?
c. If not, NRC could negotiate with Zero Waste USA and U.S. Green Building Council to partner with one or both to organize next National Zero Waste Conference in 2021 or 2022.
Updates
1. National Zero Waste Conference (Co-Chairs: Leslie Lukacs and Gary Liss)
a. Registration – As of 1-24-20, there were 204 separate registration transactions, with 176 attendees, 6 sponsors, 57 speakers, 78 Earlybird, 24 full 2-day, 14 Wednesday,17 Thursday, 1 Gold 1 Silver, and 5 Bronze registrations from sponsors (\see Attachment A). . This next month we will actively promote the Conference to meet our goal of 300 attendees! If you haven’t registered, please do so ASAP! At the last Board meeting, we asked for Board input on whether we should publish the attendee list of those attending the Conference with or without emails, for all to have access, or just for sponsors. Chairman Mick Barry emailed the Board after our last call to get input. I have compiled the responses we received from the Board (see Attachment B).
b. Sponsorships
Alec Cooley and the Fundraising Committee has done a fabulous job coordinating sponsorships for the National Zero Waste Conference! Our Sponsorship and Exhibits goal is $31,000. We now have Total cash commitments of $31,072, meeting our goal!! (see Attachment C). In addition, Alec is negotiating to confirm UC Berkeley paying for the $4,000 cost of renting the venue site for the Conference as an in-kind contribution. Alec and Sarah are coordinating on sending links and following up with sponsors as needed, and Sarah is sending invoices to all sponsors.
Other organizations are actively considering sponsorship still. View complete list of all prospects in a Google sheet. Suggestions for additional companies and contacts are welcome. This Conference is one of the best opportunities for NRC to get sponsors as it’s providing a major new product/service.
PLEASE NOTIFY ALEC BEFORE THE BOARD CALL ON FRIDAY OF WHO YOU HAVE CONTACTED OR COULD CONTACT.
We are now considering providing a limited number of scholarships if specific sponsors wish to contribute to those. We are looking for someone to help coordinate the scholarship program if we proceed with that.
c. Cooperating Organizations - Groups are listed as Cooperating Organizations who we have confirmed have helped promote the Conference by: 1) sending an announcement directly to their members/network; 2) including an article in their next newsletter about the Conference; 3) including a Conference link on their website; and/or 4) promoting the Conference via their social media links. Amanda Waddle, from Zero Waste Gainesville in Florida, has reached out to groups we identified. Attachment D is the list of people Amanda has confirmed as of 1-24-20 (she’s providing weekly updates):
d. Program and Speakers Outreach
56 speakers have confirmed of the approximately 80 invited. A list of those speakers has been posted to the Conference website along with photos and bios. Some people are asking if they could speak. We’re still saying that our Program is full (see Attachment E), but we encourage them to organize Topic Lunches, Topic Dinners or additional workshops/events during Zero Waste Week. Chrise deTournay of Berkeley is helping to organize Topic Lunches and Topic Dinners. As we get NOs from invited speakers, we also still look for places to plug in additional people proposed. We are also revisiting whether we need as many speakers as invited for a number of sessions. The Container Recycling Institute will be organizing a Best Practices in Container Deposit Laws event on Monday, 3/16. CRI is making this available on an invitation basis at first to their members. Arthur Boone of the Center for Recycling Research in Berkeley is organizing a forum on Monday, 3/16 from 4 to 6 p.m. to address the topic: “What’s Next for Recycling: Overcoming the Errors and Omissions of the Last 50 Years.”
Karyn Kaplan (formerly of University of Oregon) is helping with follow-up to speakers to request them to submit bios, photos and ppts. She’s reaching out to all Moderators this week to ask them to convene a call with all their speakers within 2 weeks, and to ask their speakers to get in PowerPoints within 2 weeks thereafter.
National Recycling Coalition Board meeting at the Conference has been cancelled. Still awaiting word if the Recycling Organizations Council would like to hold a meeting in Berkeley during Zero Waste Week.
e. Venues
We have arranged for the Conference to be held at UC Berkeley’s Martin Luther King Student Union building. I asked Alec Cooley to follow-up with Cal Zero Waste on how best to pay for the venue as a sponsorship opportunity. We proposed to trade the equivalent number of registrations for Cal Zero Waste paying the Student Union for use of their facility. We need to finalize details on this soon.
Leslie Lukacs has reached out to the caterer used for the NCRA Recycling Update
to reserve their participation. We’re awaiting a proposed price for the services needed from them.
Leslie Lukacs also got a report from the Hotel Shattuck Plaza on the status of our room block (see Attachment F). We have met and exceeded our room block, with 133 room nights booked (~45/night on Tuesday and Wednesday nights). We’re still expecting that most people will use their own travel services to find the best hotels for their budgets. We heard from the Shattuck that there is a major Gamers conference going on in San Francisco that same week, so hotel space will be at a premium. If you haven’t already, please reserve ASAP.
Urban Ore is hosting a Tribute to Recycling Pioneers and the Recycling Archives Project of Earth Island Institute. Portia Sinnott is helping to lead that event for the Conference Committee. Urban Ore has also added a promotion of reuse as part of that evening, a tour of their operations, and possibly Karaoke of the best songs from the NCRA Players.
NCRA has agreed to be lead on organizing a dance on Wednesday night, 3/18/20.
CalPIRG is organizing a free student event for the evening of 3/19, where they could get several of the speakers from the Conference to join on a panel discussion. Rick Anthony is following up with them on the event that will likely focus on reducing the use of single-use plastics.
f. Promotions –
Promotions are the priority for February!
Marialyce Pedersen completed the latest News Release on 1-24-20. Mary McClellan sent a News Release on 1-8-20 to ROC and ROs. Sarah has sent info out to NRC social media. A number of ROs have run articles on the Conference.
Please add the following to your signature line on all your emails:
“Register now for the NRC National Zero Waste Conference! March 18-19, 2020 https://zwconference.org”
2. Subcommittees We have developed 12 Subcommittees to get more people actively involved with the details of organizing the Conference. We welcome other Board Members help on leading or helping on tasks of any of the Subcommittees.
3. Board and ROC meetings in Berkeley We agreed last month to not hold a Board meeting in Berkeley.
We still need to determine if ROC would like to hold a ROC meeting in Berkeley (as some ROC members may attend). Lynn Rubinstein indicated she would explore that with ROC.
4. Resource Recycling (RR) Conference 2020
a. Dave will update on his coordination with Assn. of Plastic Recyclers regarding a new deal for 2020.
5. National Recycling Congress (2021 and beyond?)
In November I attached is a discussion document prepared in 2017 when NRC was discussing taking back the responsibility for organizing a National Recycling Congress from Resource Recycling that led to RR proposing a partnership with NRC. This is a reminder that the Board should discuss options noted in this document soon.
6. Keep America Beautiful Conference February 12-14, 2020 (Memphis)
a. NRC is working to organize a Recycling Workshop at the KAB Conference on February 11, 2020. Dave will provide updates on Board Call.
National Recycling Coalition – BOARD 12-20-19, ATTACHMENT A
176 Registered Attendees as of 1-24-20
Ruth Abbe Principal Abbe & Associates LLC Clark Ajwani Civil Engineer Los Angeles County Public Works KT Andresky Robert Andrews Director, Facilities CSU East Bay
Olivia Angus Rise Above Plastics Program Lead Surfrider
Ricchard Anthony Chairman Zero Waste International alliance Laura Anthony Coordinator Save the Albatross Coalition Sarah Archer Lead Resultant Iris Waste Diversion Specialists, Inc. Jesse Arreguin Mayor of Berkeley City of Berkeley
Maybo AuYeung Manager Environmental Program Control City of Palo Alto
Will Bakx Sonoma Compost/Renewable Sonoma
Stephanie Barger Director - TRUE Zero Waste Program U.S. Green Building Council
Mick Barry President / Chair Mid America Recycling/ National Recycling Coalitio
Peni Basalusalu Deputy Director of Public Works over Solid Waste City of Manteca
Sue Beets-Atkinson Sr. Director of Sustainability SBM Management/ GBCI TRUE Zero Waste
Ryan Bell Associate Director of Sustainability University of California Office of the President
Dave Bennink Director Building Deconstruction Institute Gary Bilbro Regional Manager EcoSafe Zero Waste Inc.
Clytie Binder Program Officer, Waste Education Brisbane City Council
Sarah Bottom Clif Bar & Company Denise Braun Principal All About Waste LLC Vivian Breckenridge GAIA Mandy Brooks Resource Recovery Manager Salinas Valley Recycles Kourtnii Brown Founder and Director Common Compost
Louise Bruce Director of Zero Waste & Recycling San Jose Conservation Corps
Michael Bryan-Brown President Green Mountain Technologies Jillian Buckholz Director of Sustainability CSU East Bay Nina Butler CEO More Recycling Van Calvez Composting Systems Engineer Green Mountain Technologies Timothy Carroll Director of Social Marketing MIG
Bethany Cartledge Cascade Alliance Director Cascade Alliance Scott Cassel CEO / Founder Product Stewardship Institute, Inc. Maggie Clarke Founder Zero Waste New York Sara Coates Low Waste Shop Manager Ethos Santa Cruz Susan Collins President Container Recycling Institute Stephanie Compton
Freddy Coronado Residential Zero Waste Associate San Francisco Department of the Environment
Matthew Cotton Owner Integrated Waste Management Consulting Madison Crittenden Sales and Marketing Assistant Green Mountain Technologies Jennifer Cutter Recycling Programs Coordinator City of Union City Kate Davenport Co President Eureka Recycling
Christienne de Tournay Zero Waste Advocate and Consultant Self
Nancy Deming Sustainability Manager Oakland Unified School District April Dickinson Debbi Dodson Recycling Coordinator Carton Council Danner Doud-Martin Associate Director Haas School of Business
Tyler Douthitt Southern California Program Coordinator Mattress Recycling Council
Kevin Drew Residential Zero Waste Senior Coordinator San Francisco Department of the Environment
Radame Dumenigo Sustainability Sr. Manager & Procurement Innovatio Fresh Express, Inc
Barbara Eckstrom Director Tompkins County Recycling & Materials Management Jennifer Faught Contracts Compliance Specialist RecycleSmart David Fridland Sustainability Manager Eco-Products, PBC Celia Furber Waste Zero Manager Recology David Galaviz EHS Specialist Fireclay tile Maricela Garcia-Flores Energy and Utility Coordinator CSU East Bay Bob Gedert Liz Gignilliat UW Nina Goodrich Executive Director GreenBlue Miriam Gordon Policy Director UPSTREAM Stacy Gorin Executive Officer Southern California Mountains Foundation
Rebecca Graham Project Manager - Communications MIG Inc
Bill Griffith Head Trash Talker Reduction In Motion Sophie Hahn Vice Mayor City of Berkeley Robert Haley Zero Waste Manager San Francisco Department of the Environment Emily Harris Waste Zero Specialist Recology Jenn Harrman Logan Harvey Waste Zero Specialist Recology
Robyn Hathcock Zero Waste Admin Services Manager University of Oregon CPFM Office of Sustainability
Joey Hejnowicz Administrative Analyst City of Santa Rosa
Ruth Herrera Zero Waste Schools Coordinator San Jose Conservation Corps
Karen Hilsberg Program Manager Container Recycling Institute Lynn Hoffman Co-President Eureka Recycling
Irene Holguin Keep Doña Ana County Beautiful Coordinator Dona Ana County
Brittany Horner Eco Entrepreneur Hero for Zero Heather Horning Sr. Management Analyst City of Palm Desert Jeffrey Jacoby Deputy Director Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund Lance Joe Jamie Kaminski Director - Policy Advisor Zero Waste Canada Rita Kampalath Sustainability Program Director County of Los Angeles, Chief Sustainability Office Brent Kawamura Sr. Sustainability Specialist PCC Community Markets Garen Kazanjian Waste Zero Specialist Recology
Christine Keith International Coordinator and US Executive Directo GAIA
Nicole Kenney Circular Materials Consultant Lin King Zero Waste Manager University of California, Berkeley Susan Kinsella Executive Director Conservatree, Environmental Paper Network
Marie Kneemeyer Development and Communications Coordinator Daily Acts Organization
Doug Kobold Executive Director California Product Stewardship Council Alice Koehler Sr. VP Marketing WasteZero
David Krueger Environmental Programs Manager City of San Ramon
Jeff Kubis Lean and Zero Waste Program Manager Heath Ceramics
JORDAN LANE Solid Waste & Recycling Coordinator City of San Luis Obispo
Stephanie Lau Zero Waste Coordinator City of Palo Alto Gina Wu Lee Founder Upcyclers Network Grace Lee Rethink Disposable Auditor Clean Water Fund Carolina Leonhardt Clif Bar Alana Levine Director Arizona State University Gary Liss President Gary Liss & Associates Ashley Louisiana Program Manager RecycleSmart Julia Lowry Quality Assurance Clover Sonoma Kimberly Lyman Management Specialist I Los Angeles County Public Works Pål Mårtensson Director Let´s Do It World Shana McCracken
Terry McDonald Executive Director St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County Clarence McILroy Recycling Manager Southern California Mountains Foundation Laura McKaughan Principal Envirolutions Consulting Mandi Mckay Sustainability Manager Sierra Nevada Brewing Co Erin McNichol Sustainability Program Manager HP, Inc.
Dani Menendez City Government Zero Waste Assistant San Francisco Department of the Environment
Clare Miflin Founder Center for Zero Waste Design Victoria Miller Intern Architect Dekker/Perich/Sabatini
Caroline Mitchell Lead Waste Reduction and Recycling Specialist City of Fort Collins
Alfiya Moghaddam Sustanability manager MCA Cherrie Mohring Community Outreach Specialist Hamilton County Recycling and Solid Waste District
Natalie Monro CE Communications Coordinator City of Boise
Dorsey Moore CEO San Jose Conservation Corps & Charter School Clarissa Morawski CEO Reloop Sarah Morgan Natural Resources Manager YOCHA DEHE WINTUN NATION Abby Morris Zero Waste Coordinator The Presidio Trust Julie Muir Zero Waste Manager Stanford University Sarah OBrien Kerrin O'Brien Executive Director Michigan Recycling Coalition Kate O'Neill Professor University of California at Berkeley
Shawn Orgel-Olson Director of Sustainability Services California Green Business Network
Denise Patel GAIA Kirstie Pecci Director, Zero Waste Project Conservation Law Foundation Marialyce Pedersen Advisory Board Member TRUE Zero Waste Certification Lisa Pellegrino Strategic Partnerships Manager TerraCycle Loralyn Perry Energy Manager CSU East Bay Joel Powell VP Marketing and Sales InStream Environmental Tracy Purrenhage Project Coordinator Iris Waste Diversion Specialists, Inc.
Julianne Rhodes Environmental Programs Manager Environmental Innovations
Kevin Richardson Zero Waste Organizer Texas Campaign for the Environment JASON RICHBURG Raw Material Procurement KW Plastics Recycling Kaity Robbins Zero Waste Manager Boston University Cole Rosengren Senior Editor Waste Dive Emily Rusch Executive Director CalPIRG Heidi Sanborn Executive Director National Stewarship Action Council Julie Sands Tyne Supervising Recycling Specialist City of San Diego, CA Robin Schneider Executive Director Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund
Beatrix Scolari Sustainability Coordinator Straus Family Creamery Cheri Seeley Waste Zero Specialist Recology Neil Seldman Director Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Kyra Seymour Facilities and Programs Coordinator Del Norte Solid Waste Management Authority
Tamara Shulman Principal Consultant Alces Technologies Portia Sinnott Program Director Zero Waste USA/Zero Waste Action - Sonoma County Lisa Skumatz Principal / President Skumatz Economic Research Associates (SERA) Chris Slafter Zero Waste Program Associate Clean Water Fund Neil Seldman Director Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Jamie Smith Rethink Disposable Program Assistant Clean Water Fund
Samantha Sommer Waste Prevention Program Manager ReThink Disposable
Adrienne Spohr Director of Marketing Clover Sonoma Julie Sutton Grounds Services Manager UC Santa Cruzf Jason Teliszczak CEO JT Environmental Consulting Ambrosia Thomson Waste Zero Specialist Recology Patrick Thornsburg Recycling Operations Manager San Jose Conservation Corps Leah Tischler Sustainabilty Manager SBM Josie Van schoick Sales Biagini Waste Aditi Varshneya GAIA Amanda Waddle Director of Zero Waste The Repurpose Project
Randi Walkins Materials Management Environmental Analyst City of Boise
Daron Warren Raw Material Procurement KW Plastics Recycling
Roy Weedman Sustainability and Recycling Programs Manager JLL
Kelsey Welliver Trash Talker Reduction In Motion
Linnea Whitney Business Development Manager Recyclist
Justin Wilcock Sonoma County Resource Recovery Casey Williams Public Education Manager Recology Scott Wolff Diversion Manager Keter Environmental Services Kikei Wong Zero Waste Coordinator UCLA 5 staff United Workers, Baltimore
Thomas Wright Western Regional Representative Carton Council
Alex Wykoff Environmental Programs Specialist City of Cupertino
National Recycling Coalition – BOARD 12-20-19, ATTACHMENT B
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2019 11:19 AM Subject: Homework from BOD meeting of DEC 20th due into Gary Liss and Leslie Lukas by Friday jan 6th
…We do have an important need for input and it must be timely so the dead line to send in is Jan 6th by COB Pacific time…Should we publish the attendee list of those attending the National Zero Waste Conference in Berkley CA March 2020
Your input should go to :
Leslie Lukas [email protected]
Gary Liss [email protected]
Dave Keeling [email protected]
or just hit reply all and keep everyones email buzzing over the holidays.
The question is simple
• Yes we should but only with name and organization with email • Yes we should but only with name and organization no email. • No we should not give out attendee list.
Please respond quickly…
Mick
RESPONSES RECEIVED
From: Fryer, Chantal <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2019 11:31 AM …Yes we should- name and organization with email - with Opt-in at registration
From: Kerrin O'Brien <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2019 12:24 PM Have we promised any lists to sponsors or exhibitors? This is often a benefit of sponsoring/exhibiting and we should honor that. If not, we could just make names and organizations available.
From: Kerrin O'Brien <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2019 8:26 AM I think it's a typical offering for sponsors and one we should consider.
From: Marialyce Pedersen <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2019 4:07 PM Hi, I vote that attendees be clearly provided the option to "opt in" to being included in a published
attendee list (with follow-up to those already registered). I think if yes, it would have to include name, org and email, otherwise not of much use?
From: Barb Eckstrom <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2019 7:14 AM …I think we should share names with organizations and emails.
National Recycling Coalition – BOARD 12-20-19, ATTACHMENT C
Current Status of Conference Sponsors
Recology Platinum level - $4,322
UC Berkeley - Cal Zero Waste Platinum level - $4,500 (in-kind)
PaintCare Platinum level - $5,000 Green Mountain Technologies Gold Level - $2,500 Mattress Recycling Council Gold Level - $2,500 Strategic Materials Gold Level - $2,500 The Recycling Partnership Gold Level - $2,500 Zero Waste Sonoma Gold Level - $2,500 Monterey Regional Solid Waste District Silver level - $1,000 + $250 KW Plastics Silver level - $1,000 SWANA GoldRush Chapter Silver level - $1,000 Verde Silver level - $1,000 Zero Waste Campus Council Silver level - $1,000 Eco Products Bronze level - $500 GreenEducation.US Bronze level - $500 JT Environmental Bronze level - $500 Payzone Systems, Inc. Bronze level - $500 Recycle Away Bronze level - $500 Salinas Valley Recycles (DBA: Salinas Valley Solid Waste Authority) Bronze level - $500
SCS Engineers Bronze level - $500
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Bronze level - $500
National Recycling Coalition – BOARD 12-20-19, ATTACHMENT D
Cooperating Organizations
These Organizations have shared already Terracycle Lisa Pellegrino State of Texas Alliance for Recycling Tamara Kowalski ILSR Neil Seldman Illinois Recycling Association Marta Keane California Resource Recovery Association Despina Kreatsoulas UpCyclers Network Gina Wu Lee Zero Waste Gainesville Amanda Waddle GAIA Aditi Varshneya New Mexico Recycling Coalition Sarah Pierpont Construction & Demolition Recycling Association Bill Turley Air & Waste Management Association Tracy Fedkoe Eureka Recycling Kate Davenport Center for Zero Waste Design Clare Miflin SBM Management Sue Beets-Atkinson BioCycle CONNECT Nora Goldstein Algalita Stephanie Shao CalRecycle Cara Morgan St. Vincent de Paul Bethany Cartledge Cascade Alliance Laura Bennett Michigan Recycling Coalition Kerrin O'Brien Container Recycling Institute Susan Collins Southeast Recycling Development Council Will Sagar TRUE Zero Waste, USGBC Stephanie Barger CURC – College and University Recycling Coalition Eric Halverson
Conservation Law Foundation Kirstie Pecci Stanford University Julie Muir HSR Zero Waste Jamie Kaminski The Recycling Partnership Dylan de Thomas
These Organizations have Agreed to Share Organization Contact Perlmutter Associates Amy Perlmutter Glass Packaging Institute Brian Vickers
Upstream Lauren Moore New York Association for Reduction, Reuse, and Recycling Greg Hancock
National Recycling Coalition – BOARD 12-20-19, ATTACHMENT E
National Zero Waste Conference Program Draft 11, 1-24-20
MARCH 16, 2020 – Recycling Pioneers Tribute & Reuse Tour 7:30-9:30 pm– Urban Ore Reuse Facility – No-host bar honoring Recycling Pioneers and the Recycling Archives Project and Reuse Tour
MARCH 18, 2020 8:30 am – Welcome/Introductions
• Gary Liss, NRC Conference Committee Co-Chair • Jesse Arreguin, Mayor of Berkeley • Kira Stoll, UC Berkeley Director of Sustainability
8:45 am – “Building a Circular Economy with Zero Waste”
• Joseph Button, Straus Family Creamery • Mandi McKay, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company • Clare Miflin, AIA, NYC “ZW Design Standards”
10:15 am – Break
10:30 am - Models of a Circular Economy - Zero Waste Campuses
• Danner Doud-Martin, Chou Hall, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley • Erin McNichol – Hewlett Packard HQ, Palo Alto • Alana Levine, Arizona State University
11:45 am - International Zero Waste Hierarchy of Highest and Best Uses
• Jamie Kaminski, Zero Waste Canada 12:00 pm - Lunch (including 10 topic lunch tables)
Concurrent Sessions
1:00 pm – A - Zero Waste for Industrial, Commercial and Institutional Facilities
Moderated Discussion Panel (Interactive Discussion with Panel and Audience; 1 brief intro ppt by 1 of presenters):
Stephanie Barger, U.S. Green Building Council, TRUE Zero Waste Sue Beets-Atkinson, SBM Services and Chair, GBCI Zero Waste Advisory Council Lin King, Cal Zero Waste, UC Berkeley
Topics to be covered:
• How to Recycle Right in Today’s Markets • Right Sizing • Designing it Right • Hard to Recycle Materials • Business contracts for recycling vendors
• Liquid wastes • Certifications – for Events, Construction Sites, • Hazardous Wastes • Training and Leadership
1:00 pm – B - Reduce and Reuse
Moderated Discussion Panel (Interactive Discussion with Panel and Audience; 1 brief intro ppt by 1 of presenters):
Leah Tischler, SBM Site Services Emily Rusch, CalPIRG and the Repair Association Dave Bennink, RE-USE Consulting
Topics to be covered:
• Right to Repair • How to measure Reduce and Reuse • Engaging Employees to Reduce and Reuse • Reusable Shipping Containers • R&D Programs
1:00 pm – C - Recycling Market Development and Infrastructure
Moderated Discussion Panel (Interactive Discussion with Panel and Audience; 1 brief intro ppt by 1 of presenters):
Ruth Abbe, Co-Chair, Global Recycling Council, CRRA Lisa Skumatz, Skumatz Economic Research Associates
Topics to be covered:
• What’s Contamination and How to Recycle Right • Latest Processing Improvements (e.g. more labor, slower belts, more equipment, robotics) • Use Materials Domestically and Bring Recycling Jobs Home from China • Container deposit systems to provide cleaner materials • Dual vs. Single Stream Collection and Processing • Recycling Incentives (e.g. Save as you Throw)
3:00 pm – Break
3:30 pm – A – Finding Markets for Hard to Recycle Materials
• Bring your own hard to recycle materials and review with marketing experts and attendees. Set up room like Antiques Road Show, with experts at stations for different types of materials (e.g. plastics, other packaging, metals, glass, paper, organics)
3:30 pm – B – Buy Recycled
• Nina Belluci Butler, More Recycling and NRC Buy Recycled Campaign • Alicia Culver, Responsible Purchasing Institute • Susan Kinsella, Conservatree • Sarah O'Brien, Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council
Topics to be Discussed:
• Buy Recycled, Environmentally Preferable and Sustainable Procurement Policies and Programs
• Durable Products
• Minimum Content Policies 3:30 pm – C – ReThink and Redesign
• Marialyce Pedersen, GBCI Zero Waste Advisory Council and NRC Board, Moderator • Susan Collins, Container Recycling Institute • Lisa Pellegrino, Terracycle • Nina Goodrich, Sustainable Packaging Coalition
Topics to be Discussed:
• Are Compostable Products the Answer? • New Models for Reuse Systems • Adopting or Expanding Bottle Bills for Clean Materials • Progress in Redesign of Sustainable Packaging
5:00 pm - Informal Gathering, No-host bar
6 – 8 pm – Topic Dinners at Local Restaurants
7 – 9 pm – CalPIRG Student Zero Waste Forum
7 – 10 pm –NCRA Zero Waste Dance (NCRA organizing)
MARCH 19, 2020 8:15 am – Welcome
• Leslie Lukacs, NRC Conference Committee Co-Chair • Sophie Hahn, Vice-Mayor of Berkeley • Kate O’Neill, UC Berkeley Co-Chair of Sustainability Advisory Committee
8:30 am – “Future of Wasting Less in America”
• Michael Sangiacomo, President, Recology (invited) 9:00 am – Zero Waste Community Plans
• Portia Sinnott, Zero Waste USA, Moderator • Julie Sands Tyne, San Diego • Alice Koehler, Waste Zero • Zero Waste Plans and Circular Economy – Esra Tat, Zero Waste Europe (invited)
Topics to be Discussed:
• Sample Zero Waste Community Plans • Model Zero Waste Master Plan • How to help your community get started doing Zero Waste Community Plan • Policies, Programs and Infrastructure Options for Zero Waste Community Plans • Zero Waste USA Zero Waste Community Planning Checklist
10:00 am –Zero Waste and Climate Change
• Maggie Clarke, Manhattan Solid Waste Advisory Board • Pal Martensson, Let’s Do It World, “Lessons from the Amazon: Lungs of the World”
10:30 am – World Cleanup Day and Plastics in the Oceans
• Rick Anthony, Chair, Zero Waste International Alliance and Vice-President, Zero Waste USA
10:45 am – Break
11:00 am – Workers Dignity, Environmental Justice and Community Economic Development
• Neil Seldman, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Moderator • Greg Sawtell, United Workers, Baltimore • Shashawnda Campbell, Zero Waste Baltimore • Terry McDonald, St. Vincent DePaul Society, Eugene, OR
Topics to be Discussed
• Workers Dignity and Living Wages • Equitable Siting of Facilities, Sharing benefits and challenges fairly • Managing Resources and converting problems into assets • Community Land Trusts to add value to vacant land and properties
12:15 pm - Lunch (including 10 topic lunch tables)
1:15 pm – A - Organics and Zero Waste
Moderated Discussion Panel (Interactive Discussion with Panel and Audience; 1 brief intro ppt by 1 of presenters):
• Ana Carvalho (Zero Waste International Alliance), Moderator • Stu Buckner (Waste 360, invited) • Matt Cotton, US Composting Council • Will Bakx, California Organics Recycling Council of CRRA • Kourtnii Brown, Sustainable Economies Law Center
Topics to be covered:
• Reducing Food Wasting (e.g. Lean Path) • Food Donations • On-site composters and digesters • Community composting • Compostable Packaging • Carbon Sequestration • Large-scale composting and anaerobic digestion • Permitting facilities and dealing with air and water regulations • Mandates for haulers and/or residential and commercial generators
1:15 pm – B – Zero Waste Community Planning
• Aditi Varshneya, GAIA (Moderator, invited) • Kirstie Pecci, Conservation Law Foundation, Boston • Kate Bailey, EcoCycle, Boulder, CO • Kate Davenport, Eureka Recycling, St. Paul, MN • Caroline Mitchell, City of Fort Collins, CO
Topics to be covered:
• Focus for Community Recycling Ordinances – Haulers, Generators, or Both • Best Practices for RFPs and Contracts (for communities) • Zero Waste Culture Change
• Dignity and Justice in Pursuing Zero Waste • Resource Recovery Parks • Living the Dream - Zero Waste Lifestyles
1:15 pm – C – Product Policies
Moderated Discussion Panel (Interactive Discussion with Panel and Audience; 1 brief intro ppt by 1 of presenters):
• Deborah Raphael, San Francisco, Moderator • Ruth Abbe (Zero Waste USA) • Heidi Sanborn (National Product Stewardship Council) • Robin Schneider (Texas Campaign for the Environment) • Miriam Gordon (Upstream Solutions) • Scott Cassel (Product Stewardship Institute) • Clarissa Morawski, (Reloop Platform)
Topics to be covered:
• Bans • Fees and deposits • Minimum content • Extended Producer Responsibility
2:45 pm – Break
3:00 pm – A - Upcyclers Network and NRC Buy Recycled Campaign Forum on marketing recycled products
• Gina Wu Lee, Upcyclers Network • Nina Butler, More Recycling and NRC Board • Alicia Culver, Responsible Purchasing Institute • Susan Kinsella, Conservatree • Sarah O’Brien, Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council
3:00 pm – B – Promotions of Zero Waste on Campuses
• Alec Cooley, Busch Systems, Moderator • Julie Muir, Stanford University • Erin McNichol, HP • Kaity Robbins, Boston University
3:00 pm – C – Single-Use Product Bans
• Dylan DeThomas, The Recycling Partnership (Moderator, invited) • Christie Keith, Break Free from Plastics Steering Committee and GAIA • Christine DeTournay, Berkeley Zero Waste Commission • Samantha Sommer, Clean Water Action • Laura Anthony, Save the Albatross Coalition and Zero Waste San Diego • Kate O’Neill, UC Berkeley, author of “Waste”
4:30 pm –Closing Plenary: David Pinsky, Greenpeace Oceans & Plastics Campaigner, l“Zero Waste to Break Free from Plastics”
5:00 pm - Close of Conference and Evaluations
OTHER ZERO WASTE WEEK ACTIVITIES Zero Waste Youth Convergence, Saturday/Sunday, March 14-15, 2020 NCRA Recycling Update 2020, March 17, 2020 (Program to be determined by NCRA, including
Green Drinks after event) Zero Waste USA Zero Waste Associates Certified Training (Classes 1 and 2), March 16 and March
20, 2020 Zero Waste Tours (NCRA) – Monday, March 16 and Friday, March 20, 2020
National Recycling Coalition – BOARD 12-20-19, ATTACHMENT F
Shattuck Hotel Plaza Room Block Update
From: Fancey Jackson <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2020 2:10 PM To: Leslie Lukacs <[email protected]> Cc: Gary Liss <[email protected]>; 'Lin King' <[email protected]>; Rhonda Alatorre <[email protected]>; Patricia Acosta <[email protected]> Subject: Room update
Hello Leslie,
Your group is actually over its contracted amount of rooms. Please see your group's pick up report below. The hotel's occupancy level is at 50% over the dates of your group's stay. If you have additional attendees that would like to reserve a room, they may at the hotel's best available rate.
All my best,
Fancey Jackson– Rooms Coordinator D: 510.225.6017 | hotelshattuckplaza.com 2086 Allston Way | Berkeley, CA 94704 Home to ZINO Mediterranean Cuisines
