Category: ZWW/Recycling Update

Thank you to all the organizers, speakers, participants and volunteers! The 21st Annual Recycling Update Conference
hosted in Berkeley, CA had an amazing turnout, engaging presenters, delicious local food, and exciting networking.
We have uploaded photos to our Facebook page, take a look!

We are also pleased to present you with the video presentations from our Speakers.  We will be adding more every few days, so check back, and view and share widely!

• Josh Simpson, Director of Marketing for Kamps Propane, “Innovation for Recreation: The Little Kamper Refillable Propane Tank”
• Mike O’Donnell, Marketing Director, Mattress Recycling Council, “Mattress Collection and Recycling Programs”
• Dana Frasz, Founder of Food Shift, “Strategies for Reducing Food Waste in Santa Clara County and Beyond”
• Miguel Robles, Project Coordinator, BioSafety Alliance, “The Soil Not Oil Coalition”
• Susan Collins, Container Recycling Institute, “CA Beverage Recycling Program Needs Our Help”
• Eli Goodsell, Director of Regenerative Programs, Conservation Corps North Bay, “Local Conservation Corps – Recycling Stuff and Changing Lives”
• Laura McKaughan, NCRA President, and Andrea Deleon, Cascadia Consulting Group Co-Project Manager, “Organics Outreach to Multifamily Properties in Oakland”
• Jared Blumenfeld, Director, EPA Region 9, “California’s Trash Control Policy: Guidance for Source-Reduction as well as controlling the Pacific Garbage Patch”
• Jessica Connolly, Recycling Programs Coordinator for MFDs, Marin Sanitary Service, “Multifamily Dwelling Compost Pilot: Measuring how Outreach Tools Influences Participation”
• Damon Carson, President of repurposedMATERIALS, “Repurposing Industrial Waste Streams”
• Maybo AuYeung and Emmanuel Nava, Co-coordinators of the 2016 Zero Waste Youth Convergence, present “Organizing Youth for Change”
• Tim Dewey-Mattia, Recycling & Public Education Manager for Napa Recycling & Waste Services, “Zero Waste Lessons from the Napa Earthquake”
• Evan Edgar, Principal of Edgar & Associates, “The California Plan before the Ban Goes Global”
• Doug Button, President and General Manager of South San Francisco Scavenger, “Making Gas Not Trash”
• Lisa Skumatz, Principal of Skumatz Economic Research Associate (SERA), presents “Every-Other-Week Collection: Tradeoffs in Frequency, New Streams, Efficiencies, and Cost-Effectiveness”
• Teresa Montgomery, Public Relations Manager for Garden City Sanitation, and Richard Gertman, Principal at For Sustainability Too, “San José Residential Food Scraps Pilot– from Fork to Feed!”
• NCRA Players, “At the Landfill”
• Eric Dubinsky, Project Scientist in the Ecology Department at Lawrence Berkeley, “The Fate of Pharmaceuticals in Thermophilic Compost”
• Conrad MacKerron, Senior Vice President at As You Sow, “Shareholder Pressure to Challenge Pharma on Drug Disposal”
• Nick Lapis, Legislative Coordinator for Californians Against Waste, “Legislative Action on Waste Policy”
• Matt Cotton, Composting Consultant, “Composting Rules: It’s Complicated”
• Michael Gross, Director of Sustainability for Zanker Recycling, “WoodAGeddon”
• Daniel Hamilton, Sustainability Program Manager for the City of Oakland, “Oakland Represents at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris”
• Rob Hilton, Vice President with HF&H Consultants, “How to Stop Worrying and Start Loving Charges for Recycling and Organics”
• Lori Marra, Environmental Specialist, City of Fremont, “Fremont Times Square: A Local Success Story”
• Wes Nelson, Sales and Marketing manager for GreenWaste Carpet Recycling, presents “California’s Magic Carpet Ride”