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Cooling the Planet
with
Zero
Waste
February 4, 2008, San Diego, CA
Zero Waste Businesses are leading the way for
Zero Waste and have diverted over 90% of their waste from landfill and
incineration. Zero Waste Communities have adopted Zero Waste goals
and plans to implement those goals. Join us to understand how Zero Waste
can be a key part of community and business sustainability plans and
helps contribute to reducing greenhouse gases and global cooling.
By attending this session, participants will be better able to:
- Provide innovative incentives to eliminate waste and focus on reuse
- Adopt producer responsibility and procurement policies
- Support expanding infrastructure needed to achieve Zero Waste (e.g.,
more reuse, recycling and composting services and development of new
Resource Recovery Parks).
Intro to Zero Waste
- Definition of Zero Waste
- Connections between Zero Waste and Climate Change
- Communities that have adopted Zero Waste as a goal
- Zero Waste Businesses that divert over 90% of their waste from
landfills or incinerators
Intro to Zero Waste Businesses
- Zero Waste Business Principles
- Model Zero Waste Businesses
Intro to Zero Waste Communities
- Sample Zero Waste Resolution
- Sample Zero Waste Community Plans
- Sample Zero Waste Goals and Objectives
Developing Zero Waste Community Plans
- Service Opportunities Analyses
- Commodities Analysis, Economics & Jobs
- Menu of Incentives and Policies
- Environmental Benefits of Zero Waste for Communities (WARM Model)
- Extended Producer Responsibility
- Zero Waste Infrastructure (Reduce, Reuse, Recycling and Composting)
- Resource Recovery Parks
- Public Participation Processes
Where & When
Date: February 4, 2008
Location: City of San Diego,
9601 Ridgehaven Court
San Diego, CA 92123
Auditorium
Time: Registration 8:30 - 9:30
Instruction: 9:30 - 4:00
CLASS PROJECT
In class, students will break into groups. Each
group will share their experience with Zero Waste at their business or
community. The team will choose one example and analyze them using the
principles learned in class. Each team will present their analysis
to the rest of the class. The class will discuss the team
presentations. WORKSHOP MATERIALS
We will email participants a list of URLs of Zero
Waste websites and will ask participants to review and comment on those
as part of the class. We will show sample documents in class,
including Zero Waste Business Principles, Zero Waste Community Strategies
and Plans, Sample Resource Recovery Park designs and useful references on
Extended Producer Responsibility.
INSTRUCTORS
Gary Liss will teach this workshop with
Richard Anthony.
Gary Liss has over 32 years of experience in solid waste and
recycling. Mr. Liss is a leading advocate of Zero Waste, and a Zero
Waste advisor to the GrassRoots Recycling Network (GRRN) and Earth
Resource Foundation (ERF). For GRRN, Mr. Liss has documented
Zero Waste Businesses, developed Zero Waste Business Principles
and with ERF helped organize Zero In on Zero Waste business
conferences. He helped write Zero Waste Plans for: Del
Norte County, CA; Nelson, British Columbia; Palo Alto, CA; and
Oakland, CA; and is now working on drafting Zero Waste
Plans for the City of Los Angeles and the City of Austin,
Texas. Mr. Liss is on the Planning Group for the Zero Waste
International Alliance and a member of the Sierra Club national
Zero Waste Committee. He is also one of the founders of the
California Sustainable Business Council and the Zero Waste for
Global Cooling Coalition. In 2005, the Zero Emissions
Research & Initiatives certified Mr. Liss as a ZERI Systems
Designer. Mr. Liss was selected as the CRRA Recycler of the Year
in 2005.
Richard V. Anthony has worked his entire career in environmental
program management positions. He is an internationally recognized and
published expert in the area of resource management using the Zero Waste
Systems approach. He has worked on Zero Waste Plans
in: Del Norte County, CA; Palo Alto, CA; and Oakland, CA
and is now working on Zero Waste Plans for Los Angeles, CA
and Austin, TX. Mr. Anthony has nearly 20 years of
experience working inside County Public Works Agencies as Program Manager
for the Fresno (79-87) and San Diego County Public Works Department
(87-98). He is a Member of the Planning Group for the Zero Waste
International Alliance
www.ZWIA.org, and
a member of the Board of Directors for the Grassroots Recycling
Network
www.grrn.org,
California Resource Recovery Association
www.crra.com, and
Keep California Beautiful. Mr. Anthony is also Chair of the
Citizen Advisory Committee on Integrated Waste Management for the
County of San Diego.
Recycling & Resource Management
Professional Certification
This workshop is part of a program aimed at training
and certifying recycling and resource management professionals by the
California Resource Recovery Association. This is the first of six
workshop series which will be held in 2008. This Zero Waste
workshop will be offered again on February 28, 2008 in Los Angeles, and
in March in Sacramento (at a date to be determined). For a full
list of all future trainings, visit CRRA Certification calendar at:
http://www.crra.com/certifications/calendar.html. For more
information about this Certification Program, go to:
http://www.crra.com/certifications/index.html
REGISTER NOW - go to:
http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=178123
These workshops are available in part due to a Grant from the US
Environmental Protection Agency. Sponsored by the City of Los
Angeles.
CA Resource Recovery Assoc | PO Box 1228 | San Luis Obispo | CA |
93406
Gary Liss
916-652-7850
Fax: 916-652-0485
www.garyliss.com
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