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- Cooling the Planet
with
Zero Waste
- March 21, 2008, Davis, 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: March 21, 2008
- Location: University Club Conference Center, One Shields Ave, Davis,
CA 95616
- 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.
- INSTRUCTOR
- Gary Liss will teach this workshop. Mr. 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.
- 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. 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
- COST: $85 Member; $100 Non Member per workshop,
except as noted below (for combined course on Friday)
REGISTER NOW
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test, will receive a certificate of completion for each course. For more
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certification
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This is the third of six workshop series which will be held in
2008. For a full list of all future trainings, visit CRRA
Certification calendar
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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
Gary Liss & Associates
4395 Gold Trail Way
Loomis, CA 95650-8929
916-652-7850
Fax: 916-652-0485
gary@no.address
www.garyliss.com
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