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Session Descriptions
Sunday, August 3rd
Session #1 9:00 am - 3:00 pm* *(unless noted)
CRRA Certification Courses
Certification Classes only:
Certification Classes added to full conference registration:
Introduction to Construction Debris Management Practices (separate fee applies)
This course will consist of a brief overview of potential C&D diversion opportunities through source reduction, reuse, recycling and composting, a discussion of barriers that hamper C&D diversion and a summary of strategies to increase C&D recycling as well as processing infrastructure and markets for select C&D materials. View full Introduction to Construction Debris Management Practices course description.
Introduction to Recycling & Rethinking Waste - 101A* (separate fee applies)
This course will provide participants an understanding of the history of recycling in California. The course will cover the development of residential, commercial and institutional recycling programs, composting, construction and demolition debris diversion, and hard to recycle Sections of the waste stream. The course will provide an overview of state legislation and regulations relating to waste management concepts, with a strong focus on AB939, AB2020 and AB32. The course will cover the original 3Rs, plus an additional 3Rs; reduce, reuse and recycle (and compost), plus recovery, remanufacture and repurchase. View full Introduction to Recycling & Rethinking Waste course description.
Introduction to Zero Waste, the Foundation to Resource Management - 101B* (separate fee applies)
This course is intended to provide a solid foundation of understanding the broad features and issues of zero waste, the foundation to resource management. The impetus in the industry is towards zero waste management, and practitioners need to know and understand the history, technology, socio-economics, communications, ecology, and application of zero waste principles to real world problems of wasting. View full Introduction to Zero Waste, the Foundation to Resource Management course description. Workshops
Introduction To Extended Producer Responsibility* - Harbour Room A
Session #2 1:00 - 4:00 pm
Advanced Policy Workshop - Carbonopoly: Keeping Score Through Offset Trading and Accounting Protocols - Regency Ballroom B Carbon offset trading is an emerging market for composting and recycling. Trading can add value to projects, encourage program expansion, and create demand for new approaches. There are real issues of ownership, verification, double counting, and market regulation that must be addressed. Accounting through models like US EPA's WAste Reduction Model (WARM) can demonstrate recycling and composting greenhouse gas reduction benefits, precursors to offset trading. Scott Subler is President of Environmental Credit Corporation, a director of the US Composting Council, and Chair of the Offset Committee for the Chicago Climate Exchange. He actively trades offset credits for composting projects, and is working CCE to overcome recycling offset challenges. Scott will open the Roundtable with an overview of compost and recycling carbon credits. Kate Krebs will highlight her work as Executive Director of the National Recycling Coalition, including Congressional input to establish a recycling protocol and research on carbon credit accounting and transfer options. The remaining time will be used as a lightly moderated open roundtable, focused on the issues identified by Scott, Kate and the group, including accounting protocols. There will knowledgeable and involved folks from Sacramento and Washington D.C. participating in this discussion, a unique opportunity to narrow the gap between concept and reality, and clear the way to capture carbon offset credit value.
1:00 - 5:00 Video Screening Room - Harbour Room A
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