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[greenyes] Dr. PAUL H. CONNETT at CRRA State Conference Ontario CA July 20 -23.
- Subject: [greenyes] Dr. PAUL H. CONNETT at CRRA State Conference Ontario CA July 20 -23.
- From: RicAnthony@no.address
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:51:53 EDT
Dr. Paul H.Connett will be at the CRRA State Conference Ontario, CA July
20-23.
The opening sesson entitled Searching for Zero Waste Monday, July 21,9:30 a.
m, will feature Dr. Paul Connett who will be returning from Australia and
Japan where he is working with communities for resource conservation and a toxic
free environment.
Professor Connett teaches environmental chemistry at St. Lawrence University
in Canton, New York. He has received numerous awards and citations for his
efforts as an environmental activist. A graduate of Cambridge University,
Connett holds a Ph.D. from Dartmouth College. He joined the faculty at St. Lawrence
in 1983.
Connett 's opposition to incineration as a method of managing solid waste,
based on his chemical analysis of the byproducts of the process, has taken him
to 49 states, five Canadian provinces and 44 other countries. During this time
he has given over 1,700 public presentations, written many articles on dioxin
and waste management and co-produced several videotapes on those topic
The Mercury, July 2, 2003
Brighton waste row for forum
By DANNY ROSE
THE key adversaries in Brighton's controversial $100 million
Waste-to-Energy incinerator project will face off for the first time
tonight.
The public forum, To Burn or Not to Burn, will be held at the
Bridgewater Community Centre from 7pm.
It will bring together opponents of the project, including chemistry
professor Paul Connett, who has flown from the United States.
The forum will be convened by a long-term opponent of the project,
international lobby group Greenpeace.
"Wherever you put in an incinerator, it acts as an incentive to keep
producing wasteful products and a disincentive for recycling and other
waste-reduction schemes," he said.
Dr Connett will also speak on A Community Approach to Waste in The 21st
Century tomorrow at the University of Tasmania's Stanley Burbury Theatre, from
6.30 to 8.30pm.
JAPAN
The Environmental Research Institute Tokyo and Greenpeace Japan will hold a
Zero Waste Seminar on 12 July 2003 in Ikebukuro, Tokyo with Paul Connett as
keynote speaker. The seminar will explore the possibility of a Zero Waste Policy
in Japan by presenting leading examples from Canada, Australia and New
Zealand. Also the seminar will present the findings of a research showing the degree
of the dioxin contamination caused by waste incinerators around Tokyo.
Greenpeace Japan will have a tour of leading recycling communities, six of
them, in Japan with Paul Connett for a week. The tour will start the Day of
Global Action by visiting a mayor of Hino City, one of the leading communities
doing recycling. The tour will identify communities that are willing to declare
incineration-free community and go for Zero Waste.
Check out the CRRA Conference Website
<A HREF="http://www.crra.com/conf2003/">Click Here for the Website</A>
ricanthony@no.address
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