CRRA 2007 Conference

CRRA• 31st Annual Conference • July 29 - August 1, 2007 • Marina Hotel • San Pedro

Certification Information

To receive CEU's please read all instructions on the Report Form. Note that you must attend the entire day to receive contact hours. Additionally, to receive credit for Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday Concurrent Sessions, you will need to attend one session from each track, and will need to obtain multiple signatures on the "Instructor/Staff Signature" line. Click here for the Certification Form (pdf)

SUNDAY, JULY 29
9:00 - 2:00 pm Certification Workshop #1
Resource Management 101-C An Introduction to Resource Management
This workshop is intended to provide beginners in the field a solid foundation of understanding the broad features and issues of resource management. The impetus in
the industry is towards zero waste management, and practitioners need to know and understand the history, technology, socioeconomic, communications, ecology, and application of zero waste principles to real world problems of wasting. In this course, students will be introduced to 1) definitions and why defining terms is so important, 2) overview of the resource management paradigm, 3) theory and origins of wasting, 4) conventional wisdom of sanitation method as opposed to managing discarded resources, and 5) need for and application of conservation and environmental protection in the municipal arena. The workshop will include two components: (1) a three-hour lecture with questions, and (2) a one-hour laboratory. The “lab” will involve the students by organizing them into teams that will tackle a staged technological or communications problem with the intent of developing a potential solution. Students will perform a combined classroom presentation. A course workbook will be provided.

9:00 - 2:00 pm Certification Workshop #2
Moving Business to Clean Production and the Triple Bottom Line—Advanced Course
This workshop is intended to bring participants up to speed with the need to move businesses to clean production, and to understand and adopt the triple bottom line (TBL) as a resource management principle of business. There are many companies in California right now that have adopted zero waste to landfill, and they are making money as well as protecting the environment through clean production and TBL. However, it is necessary for participants to more fully understand four areas that impact the successful implementation of clean production: 1) economics, 2) education and training, 3) private and public policies and regulations, and 4) the ecology of wasting (why waste happens). The workshop will include two components: (1) a three-hour lecture with questions, and (2) a one hour facilitated laboratory. The “lab” will involve the students by organizing them into teams that will tackle a real world problem and provide a combined classroom presentation. The laboratory component will help students to integrate the lessons learned into a cohesive strategy for the future of their business or community. The real world problem solving will be focused on solving both a business related and a community-based issue designed to illustrate the need for a balanced and integrated solution. A course workbook will be provided. Click here for presentation

TUESDAY, JULY 31
10:30 - 4:15 pm Certification Workshop #3
Resource Management 101B—An Introduction to Rethinking Wastes
This training course will provide participants an understanding of the issues of resource management. The goal of Resource Management, as compared with Waste Management, is to eliminate waste by directing discards to reuse in the manufacture of new products. Training will focus on the basics of designing programs to achieve the goal of no waste going to landfill, by maximizing waste prevention, repair and reuse and recovery; while increasing participation by consumers.

In this course, participants will be introduced to: 1) what wastes are, how and why we have wastes, and what is in the waste stream; 2) designing integrated systems to
eliminate waste and recover resources; 3) the effects of collection and processing on feedstocks for manufacturing, and the raw material needs of manufacturers; 4) getting the public to understand resource management concepts; and 5) ways
to bring all these features together into one closed loop system.

The course will include: three hours of lecture with questions, a tour of the Exhibit Hall [with a discussion of how the exhibitors fit into the system] and a problem solving session where participants will work in groups to solve problems in implementing an element of a resource management program.