Monthly Board Meeting – This Thursday in Oakland – All are welcome

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.

DRAFT Meeting Agenda

Annual Members Meeting! Thursday April 19th at StopWaste Office

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!

2018 Recycling Update – Speaker PDF Presentations

Thanks to our outstanding speakers at the Recycling Update Conference!

Video presentations are being edited and will be featured on our YouTube Channel when they are ready in mid-April, so please check back!

Ruth Abbe – Save the Albatross Zoe Heller – CalRecycle
David Allaway – Part 1 & 2 – Oregon Department of Environment Kevin Kumataka – San Francisco Green Business Program
Will Bakx – Sonoma Compost Michael Lok – Asian Health Services
Erin Cooke & Jennifer Acton – San Francisco Intl Airport Jack Macy – San Francisco Department of Environment
Sharon Daraphonhdeth – UC Berkeley Patrick Mathews – Salinas Valley Recycles
Ken DaRosa – CalRecycle Kelly McBee – CAW
Mikhail Davis – Interface Terry McDonald – St. Vincent de Paul
Jeff Denby – Renewal Workshop John Moore – Recycle Law
Tim Dewey-Mattia – Napa Recycling Kate O’Neill – UC Berkeley
Sara Fuentes – CIWA Kerry Parker & Samantha Sommer – City of Alameda and Clean Water Action
Hilary Gans – ABAG Jerame Renteria – Zanker
Adam Gendell – Sustainable Packaging Coalition Nicole Tai – GreenLynx
Iain Gulland – Zero Waste Scotland Monica Wilson – GAIA
Allie Lalor, Greg Dudish, Dennis Uyat, Alina Bekkerman – Zero Waste Youth International

Salvage Spring Fling – NCRA’s 40th Anniversary Party!

REGISTER HERE!

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!

REGISTER HERE!

Thank you 2018 Recycling Update Sponsors!

THANK YOU TO OUR 2018 RECYCLING UPDATE SPONSORS!

GOLD: San Francisco Department of the Environment, City of Vallejo, StopWaste, City of Napa, Napa Recycling & Waste Services, R3 Consulting, Mt. Diablo Resource Recovery, ReThink Waste, City of Fremont

SILVER: HF&H Consultants, Ecology Center, Marin Sanitary Service

BRONZE: City of Livermore, City of Stockton, Pleasanton Garbage Service, PSSI/Stanford Recycling Center, Amador Valley Industries, CRRA, Recycle for Change, South San Francisco Scavenger, CRRC-Northern District, RecycleMore, RecycleSmart, SCS Engineers, SureClose