Re: [GreenYes] Grassroot recycling activities at NRC Congress

[Ted Smith <tsmith@svtc.org>]

One additional late add at the NRC  conference is a
panel on Wednesday, Jan 16 at 10:15 - 11:45 on Product Stewardship
Initiatives for Electronics.  I will be one of the
panelists.

Ted Smith


At 03:35 PM 1/9/2002 -0800, you wrote:
> The following is a summary of
> events at the National Recycling Congress next week that will be of
> interest to grassroots recyclers.  Please check with NRC staff at
> the Registration Desk, or in the Congress program for room numbers and
> locations.
>
> Don't forget to check out the booth in the exhibit area of CRRA's Global
> Recycling Council (GRC) and the GrassRoots Recycling Network.  It
> will feature local government resolutions on zero waste, electronics take
> back, beverage container waste, and Dow's herbicide that is threatening
> the compost industry.
>
> See you in Seattle!
>
> Gary Liss
> ****************************************
> Sunday - 12-4 GrassRoots Recycling Network (GRRN) Organizing
> Meeting.  For GRRN leaders to strategize on where GRRN is, where
> it's going, and what's GRRN doing at NRC.  This isn't on the
> Congress Program - please send reply to me or Rick Anthony
> (ricanthony@aol.com) for location.
>
> Monday - 4-5:30 pm  GrassRoots Recycling Network (GRRN) Open Forum -
> Annual update on GRRN activities.
>
> Tuesday - 9-10:30 am - "The Movement to Zero Waste" session
> organized by Eric Lombardi and Gary Liss.  Eric will highlight
> "What Is A ZW
> Community?", including a discussion of ZW Policy Innovations,
> Mandatory
> wet/dry separation, Mandatory ICI diversion planning, EPR funding
> support
> for new collections, Contracting Innovations, Market Development,
> Community Service Voids Assessments, Land Use Planning and Siting issues,
> Govt Purchasing Practices,  ZW Advocacy, Waste Prevention, Consumer
> Purchasing, Community Organizing, ZW Communications, ¨ Economics of the
> ZW option, ZW Collections, and ZW
> Competitors (Landfilling and  Incineration).
>
> Gary will present on Resource Recovery Parks, Incentives for
> diversion,  and Zero Waste Principles for Businesses. This session
> will
> highlight businesses that have achieved >90% waste diversion, and
> discuss other criteria being considered by international zero waste
> activists to be considered Zero Waste companies in the future. This talk
> will solicit
> suggestions for different categories of leadership by businesses
> towards
> the goal of Zero Waste, including those who have adopted a Zero Waste
> goal and a target date for achieving that goal (e.g., ZW Diversion
> leaders, ZW Procurement Leaders, ZW Responsibility and Takeback Leaders,
> ZW Reuse and Repair Leaders, ZW Waste Prevention Leaders).  The talk
> will also solicit input from the audience on the different purposes for
> listing companies as Zero Waste leaders including membership in an
> information sharing Zero Waste organization, recognition in national or
> international awards programs, and certification possibly for a rating
> service that would
> provide the basis for socially responsible investment companies to
> evaluate the waste management practices of listed businesses.
>
> Tuesday - 9-10:30 am - "Recovering Electronics from Residences and
> Small Businesses" session.  GRRN encourages people to attend
> this session.
>
> Tuesday - 1:30-3 pm - "International Trends in Packaging and
> Electronics
> Take-Back and Product Stewardship" session.  GRRN encourages
> people to attend this session.
>
> Tuesday - 1:30-3 pm - "Electronics Recycling Does Compute (Federal
> Envt. Executive track)" session.  GRRN encourages people to
> attend this session.
>
> Tuesday - 3:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m, CRRA's Global Recycling Council
> (GRC)
> Takebacks Meeting, Room 604, 6th Floor, East Side  - GRC encourages
> other ROs and NRC attendees to adopt e-waste resolutions and
> beyond.
>
> Wednesday, 8:30 - 10:00 am, "Just the Facts -- Comparing the
> Costs,
> Benefits and Effectiveness of Beverage Container Recovery
> Programs,"
> This session will mark the release of a ground-breaking study that
> could
> help break the logjam on new deposit legislation in the United
> States.
> The study was conducted by a team of leading consultants (RW Beck,
> Franklin Associates, Tellus and Sound Resource Management Group).
> Coca-Cola, Waste Management Inc. and other stakeholders sponsored
> and participated in the study.  The Multi-Stakeholder Recovery
> Project is
> spearheaded by Businesses and Environmentalists Allied for 
> Recycling
> (a project of Global Green USA), which formed in response to GRRN’s
> Beverage EPR Campaign.  The report, which documents baseline
> statistics on U.S. container recovery programs during the study year
> of
> 1999, shows that deposits are the only proven way to get to 80%
> recovery
> and points to a modified deposit/redemption system as the most cost
> effective approach.
>
> Wednesday - 10:15-11:45 am - "When you Don't Reach your
> Goals"
> session.  Gary Liss is one of the speakers, speaking about Del Norte
> Zero Waste Plan.  He will highlight what led this rural county of
> 30,000 to be the first community in the nation to adopt a Zero Waste
> Plan.  He will also summarize key aspects of the Zero Waste Plan,
> and report on its implementation.
>
> Wednesday - 10:15-11:45 am - "Corporate Product Stewardship
> Initiatives for Electronics" session.  GRRN encourages people
> to attend this session.
>
>
>
>
> Gary Liss
> 916-652-7850
> Fax: 916-652-0485
>
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Ted Smith
Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition/Campaign for Responsible Technology
760 N. First Street,San Jose, CA 95112
408-287-6707-phone;  408-287-6771-fax
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