Conference Tracks
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Workshops Session Three
Wednesday, October 30, 2013 • 10:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
EI.3: Turning Waste Into Profit through Material Exchange Networks
Room 309/310
The Earth's regenerative ability can no longer keep pace with human demand-people are turning resources into waste faster than nature can turn waste back into resources. To restore equilibrium, businesses, government, nonprofits, trade associations, and academia are recognizing the economic and environmental value of their waste streams. Through the use of material exchange networks entities generate new revenue and savings by re-using undervalued materials. In addition, material exchange networks slow the pace of extracting virgin materials resulting in energy, water, hazardous pollutants and GHG reductions.
Speakers
Ken Pereira,
Supervising Waste Management Specialist, Sacramento County
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Mary Rose,
Co-Executive Director, NBIS (Network for Business Innovation & Sustainability)
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Since co-founding NBIS in 2003, Mary Rose has developed and delivered regional leadership and professional development programs to advance sustainability through the business sector. NBIS’ conferences, workshops and peer roundtables provide opportunities and strategies for businesses and professionals to leverage sustainable management practices for company advancement and impact. NBIS’ flagship regional programs, By-Product Synergy NW and the new online Materials Innovation Exchange, are helping companies develop closed loop approaches to waste materials. Mary serves on the Advisory Board of the Sustainable Business Practices program of Bellevue College, and is a member of the Tacoma Tideflats Industrial Stormwater Assistance Project. www.nbis.org; www.materialsinnovationexchange.com
Thomas Vinson,
Senior Program Coordinator, Zero Waste Network, University of Texas Arlington
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Thomas Vinson works out of the University of Texas Arlington where he founded the Zero Waste Network, working closely with a national network of specialists and the EPA to find ways businesses can save money by reducing waste. Thomas annually trains over 150 people, and speaks at workshops and trainings throughout the world. Thomas has led several IT projects to help businesses reduce their pollution, including a Pollution Prevention Planner that companies have used to reduce approximately half a million pounds per year and develop over 500 approaches for source reduction. Thomas has worked for the University of Texas, the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. He has a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Texas-Arlington and has completed ISO 14001 lead auditor training.
Presentations/Handouts
HHW.3: California’s Paint Product Stewardship Program
Room 313
Product stewardship is a product-centered approach to environmental protection. It calls on those in the product lifecycle—manufacturers, retailers, consumers and recyclers—to share responsibility for reducing the environmental impacts of products. This session will provide an opportunity for various stakeholders involved in product stewardship to share successes and challenges of implementing a stewardship program. The session would also provide an update on the PaintCare Program's progress to date, and findings from the first annual report. PaintCare, a non-profit stewardship organization, was created by the American Coatings Association for the purpose of managing post-consumer paint in states with paint product stewardship legislation. California's paint product stewardship legislation went into effect October 19, 2012.
Speakers
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Since 1990, Ms. Beurmann has been responsible for development, implementation and management of all special waste programs including; HHW, CESQGs, paint and used oil recycling, material reuse, non friable asbestos, load-check, banned pesticides and pesticide container recycling programs. In addition, Ms. Beurmann is responsible for oversight of three permanent collection facilities, departmental litigation, property management, grant coordination and administration, and management of the County’s 54 closed burn dump sites and their associated remediations. Ms. Beurmann graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and has worked for the county for the past 35 years.
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Gene Brickhouse, is the General Manager of True Value Manufacturing in Cary, Illinois. As a manufacturer of paints, coatings, paint applicators and specialty cleaning products we supply True Value Hardware stores in 50 states and 28 foreign countries.
Before managing the manufacturing business he was responsible for the distribution facilities for True Value Company that serviced True Value Hardware stores west of the Mississippi River from 2001 through 2004.
Prior to joining True Value he worked with Weyerhaeuser Company and with Boise Cascade Company where he spent 28 years in engineering, manufacturing, sales and distribution of commodity building products.
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Caitlin Sanders is the California Program Manager at PaintCare, where she is expanding the public's opportunities for paint recycling in the state. Prior to joining PaintCare, Caitlin worked for the San Francisco Department of the Environment (SFE), where she focused on product stewardship initiatives, public education on toxics reduction strategies, and development and implementation of Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) programs, including a network of more than 100 HHW retail drop-off sites and the nation's first industry-funded retail-based medicine collection and disposal program.
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UO.3: What’s New is Oil Again: Refreshing the Used Oil Payment Program
Room 311/312
What’s New in the Oil Program! New grant programs, new statewide outreach contracts, and the Farm and Ranch Grant Solid Waste Cleanup Grant Program. Come and hear the latest information to help you in your used oil and filter recycling programs! CalRecycle staff will provide an update overview of the Oil Payment Program (OPP) reporting system, upcoming statewide used oil contracts, and the used oil California Certified Collection Center Program. Information on CalRecycle’ s Farm and Ranch Grant Cleanup Program will also be presented for jurisdictions requiring assistance in their cleanup of illegal solid waste sites on farm or ranch properties. The session concludes with an opportunity for OPP participants to pose questions to the panel as well as meet in the smaller groups with their respective CalRecycle Program Advisors.
Speakers
Baljot Biring,
Integrated Waste Management Specialist, CalRecycle
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Baljot Biring attended California State University, Sacramento obtaining his Bachelor in Science in Finance and Risk Management Insurance. He started his State government career in 2006, joining the former California Integrated Waste Management Board as a student. As a student, he provided support to Grant Managers in the UO and Household Hazardous Waste Program grant programs. Baljot is on the UO Certified Collection Centers team, in addition to managing OPP for the greater Los Angeles Co. region.
Alan Ilusorio,
Integrated Waste Management Specialist, CalRecycle
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Alan Ilusorio has worked in CalRecycle for approximately four years, and is currently a Used Oil and HHW Program Advisor, as well as a co- lead for the most recent HHW Grant Program cycle. Previously, he worked in the Beverage Container and Tire Recycling Grants section, including a program lead for the FY 2011/12 and 2012/13 Beverage Container Recycling Grant Program.
Carla Repucci,
Integrated Waste Management Specialist, CalRecycle
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Carla Repucci graduated from California State University Sacramento with a B.S. in Environmental Science. Ms. Repucci began her state career in the California Integrated Waste Management Board’s Used Oil Program and worked there 10 years. In 2002 Carla moved into the Farm and Ranch Grant Program and two years ago added the Local Government Waste Tire Amnesty Grant Program to her duties.
Harnak Samra,
Integrated Waste Management Specialist, CalRecycle
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Harnak Samra attended California State University, Sacramento obtaining his Bachelor in Science in Business Management. His State government career began in 1998 with the Employment Development Department, where he served as a Grant Manager. In 2007, Harnak joined CalRecycle’s Used Oil Program. He currently serves as a Lead Program Advisor for the OPP Program, and manages payments for several cities in the Los Angeles region.
Presentations/Handouts
No presentations or handouts have been submitted for this session.
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