For 17 years now Recycling Update has brought together speakers on what is new and different in discard materials management. It's 250 to 350 (depending on the year) of the best and brightest from our industry all in one auditorium on one day. It's where folks network, hang out with friends, and go from being out-of-touch to up-to-date. RU has been rated the best one day conference in the country.

 

Recycling Update 18 was held on Tuesday March 19, 2013 at Freight & Salvage in downtown Berkeley.  

Final Program for Recycling Update 18: Click here

List of Speakers for RU 18 and their presentation slides:

 

 Reduce:

* Megan Ponder of the City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability: Why Weekly Garbage? Try EOW!

* Bill Pollock of Alameda County Household Hazardous Waste:Pharmaceuticals EPR and the Pending Lawsuit 

* Paul Fresina of Paintcare:PaintCare and California’s Paint Stewardship Program

* Corinne Atwood of the British Columbia Bottle Depot Association: Printed Paper and Packaging Extended Producer Program (EPR) in BC

* Conrad MacKerron of As You Sow: Unfinished Business: The Case for EPR for Packaging

* Melissa Walsh Innes of Recycling Reinvented: How to Move Business Into Supporting EPR Legislation

 * Mary Lou Van Deventer of Urban Ore: Analysis of Some EPR Legislation and Results of Some Implemented Programs 

  

Reduce/Reuse:

 * Steven Chiv of the San Francisco Department of the Environment, Megan Ponder of the City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, and Nina McNitzky of the City of San Jose: Three Cities - Implementing a Bag Ordinance 

 

 

Reuse: 

* Kristina Miller of Tehama County: REAP the Benefits of Reuse - Mobile Reuse Pilot Project

 * Terry McDonald of Saint Vincent DePaul of Lane County Oregon: Reuse Markets 

 

 

Recycle: 

* Garth Schultz of the City of El Cerrito: How El Cerrito's new Recycling + Environmental Resource Center came to be, and why other communities are taking note 

* Danielle Peacock of GreenBlue: The Sustainable Packaging Coalition and How2Recycle Label

* Timonie Hood of U.S. EPA Region 9: U.S. EPA National Measurement Update

* Monica Wilson of GAIA: Coal Plants and Cement Kilns - The Future of Plastics and Waste? 

Recycle/Rot:

* Eric Lombardi and Dr. Jeff Morris: After 70% Recycling, What To Do With The Leftovers?

* Jeff Krump of the City of San Jose: The Way to San Jose’s New Commercial System

* Bob Gedert of the City of Austin: Austin Zero Waste Implementation Strategies (Bob was ill and couldn't make but would still like to share his slides)

* Dan Henderson and Pat Rogan of the San Francisco Forty Niners with Laura McKaughan of San Francisco Conservation Corps: 49ers Go Green - Waste Diversion at Candlestick Stadium

* Todd Sutton of WasteSleuth.com and Michael Chandler of the City of Martinez: Sustainable Citizen Workshops 

* StopWaste.Org: The 4Rs Student Action Project 

* Janelle Fitzpatrick of the San Francisco Department of the Environment: Environment Now, Grassroots Outreach Program 

 

Rot:

* Dana Frasz of Foodshift: Feeding People Not Landfills

* Emily Hanson of Greenwaste and Zero Waste Energy Development Company: Permitting & Construction of the First Commercial-Scale Dry Fermentation Anaerobic Digestion Facility in the United States

* Jacques Franco of CalRecycle: Anaerobic Digestion Projects in Development Across California

* Hillary Near of Cascadia Consulting: Compostable Bioplastics Testing Protocol - “Real-world” Experiences from San Jose"

* Bart Carr of Central Contra Costa Solid Waste Authority: Commercial Food Waste Collection - Retro Approach Yields Cost Savings

* Will Bakx of Sonoma Compost: Biodynamic Compost    

 

Thanks for coming! See you next year at RU 19!

Sincerely,

Rebecca Jewell and Jordan Figueiredo

Recycling Update 18 and 19 Program Coordinators 

 

 

Past Recycling Update Conferences
Click here for speakers and presentation slides from Recycling Update 17 in 2012.
Click here speakers from Recycling Update 16 in 2011.
Click here speakers from Recycling Update 15 in 2010.