NORTHERN CALIFORNIA RECYCLING ASSOCIATION
BOARD MEETING – THURS May 17, 2018
Location: John Moore’s Office, 1970 Broadway St, Oakland, CA 94612
Food served at 6 pm; meeting begins at 6:30 pm.
Open to the public – all welcome to attend. Please RSVP to the NCRA Office if you wish to attend. Coming late? Let the office know so someone can be prepared to come down to let you in; the doorperson leaves at 6pm.
We are pleased to offer you the video presentations for the 2018 Recycling Update conference; more will be added weekly, so please check back and spread widely!
Allie Lalor , Greg Dudish , Alina Bekkerman , Dennis Uyat, “Lessons Learned from Zero Waste Youth Brazil”
Terry McDonald , Executive Director, St. Vincent de Paul of Lane County, Inc.
Nicole Tai , CEO, GreenLynx
David Allaway, Senior Policy Analyst, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
Jeff Denby , Co-Founder of The Renewal Workshop,“Enabling a Circular Economy for Apparel”
Jerame Rentaria , Zanker Materials Processing, “DM Reduction System at Zanker Facility”
Hilary Gans , Manager, SBWMA
Michael Lok, Asian Health Services
Kevin Kumataka, SF Green Business Program
Sharon Daraphonhdeth, UC Berkeley
Jennifer Acton & Erin Cooke, San Francisco International Airport
Kelly McBee, Californians Against Waste
Mikhail Davis, Interface
Will Bakx, Sonoma Compost Company
Patrick Mathews, Salinas Valley Recycles
Ken DaRosa, Chief Deputy Director, CalRecycle
Ruth Abbe, President, Zero Waste USA
David Allaway, Senior Policy Analyst, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
Kerry Parker, Recycling Specialist, City of Alameda and Samantha Sommer, Waste Prevention Program Manager, Clean Water
Action
Sara Fuentes, Sustainability Program Manager, Commercial Industrial Waste Applications, Inc. (CIWA, Inc.)
Zoe Heller, Assistant Director of Policy Development, CalRecycle
Kate O’Neill, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley
Monica Wilson, Policy & Research Coordinator, GAIA
Jack Macy, Commercial Zero Waste Senior Coordinator, San Francisco Dept. of Environment
John Moore, Legal Counsel, NCRA
Tim Dewey-Mattia, Public Education Manager, Napa Recycling & Waste Services
Please join us for our annual meeting where we will brainstorm our focus for 2018. Meeting will be held at the StopWaste office at 1537 Webster Street, Oakland 94612. Email us at ncrarecycles at gmail.com to RSVP, or with any questions you may have.
Tentative Agenda is as follows:
6:00pm Food and Group Sharing
6:30pm Annual Membership Address
7:00pm Group Activity: Priority-setting for committees
7:30pm Groups come back together for report out
7:45pm Screening of STRAWS with brief Q&A after
8:30pm Meeting adjourns & off to green drinks!
Video presentations are being edited and will be featured on our YouTube Channel when they are ready in mid-April, so please check back!
Help the Northern California Recycling Association celebrate its 40th Anniversary in style in a celebration of reuse, recycling, and the magic of creation. Join us for an evening of dancing, food and refreshments at Ohmega Salvage, featuring the work of local Bay Area salvage and upcycling artists, who will be creating salvage art in real time and engaging attendees in their artistic process.
Free for NCRA members, a $15 donation requested of non-members, no one turned away for lack of funds. Mix and mingle with industry friends and newcomers. Help us celebrate 40 years of NCRA and imagine what the next 40 years may bring!
