Conference Tracks
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Workshop Session Five
Thursday, April 09, 2015 • 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
EI-5: Local Conservation Corps and World Café Discussion
Studio IV
Join this presentation to learn about how conservation corps are helping local jurisdictions increase used oil, HHW and other recycling rates. With financial support from CalRecycle the 14 local conservation corps throughout California are working strategically and collaboratively with local governments to co-create solutions to challenging waste management issues. Local conservation corps provide recycling industry training to young adults while helping jurisdictions solve environmental and social issues. We will also be discussing topics of interest to the group in a World Café based on thoughts, comments, and questions provided by conference attendees throughout the conference. Please add your thoughts and questions to the boards near the registration tables in preparation for this discussion.
Speakers
Karla Ramos,
Senior Program Manager, LA Conservation Corps.
Speaker-submitted biosketch
Karla Ramos is a Senior Program Manager at the Los Angeles Conservation Corps. She has management responsibilities on a wide variety of Corps work contracts and grants, which entail development, implementation and monitoring progress of projects such as community enhancement teams and recycling of beverage containers, and recent addition of e-waste, used tires and used oil programs. Her responsibilities include overseeing the day-to-day collections of recycled materials from the Corps’ local business, schools, large venue/ special events and local parks accounts. Furthermore, she develops and implements outreach programs designed to educate school children, special event attendees and the general public.
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Robert Carlson is a Senior Environmental Scientist with CalRecycle and has lead scientific studies investigating the environmental and human health impacts of used oil and artificial turf fields.
Moderator: Michelle Martin,
Branch Chief, CalRecycle
Presentations/Handouts
HHW-5: Is your HHW program convenient?
Studio III
The first Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) Programs started in the 1980s. Is your program “effective” relative to others in the state? We will also discuss what program “convenience” means and a formula for determining effectiveness. We will also explore the impact of existing Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) programs on municipal HHW collection, and provide an update on progress and convenience.
Speakers
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Burke Lucy is an Environmental Scientist with the Statewide Technical and Analytical Services Branch of CalRecycle. He manages CalRecycle’s Form 303 HHW reporting system and is the waste specialist for home-generated sharps, pharmaceuticals, batteries, and lamps. He was the lead for a 2010 Report to the Legislature, which in part, compared the effectiveness of various pharmaceutical waste collection program types including HHWCFs, events, and mailers. Before joining CalRecycle, he worked for 17 years in the private sector as an project manager, environmental specialist, proposal manager, marketing writer, and webmaster.
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David Nightingale is the principal of Special Waste Associates, a consulting and publishing firm located in Olympia, Washington. His career has focused on HHW management since 1987 and he has assisted dozens of local and state jurisdictions in the planning, design, development, and operation of HHW collection facilities and systems. He has visited over 120 operating HHW collection facilities in North America and is the author of the book: HHW Collection Facility Design Guide - Charting Your Path Through the Household Hazardous Waste Facility Design Process. He is a frequent speaker and trainer at HHW conferences in the US and serves as regular NAHMMA and SWANA training faculty. He served as the Northwest Product Stewardship Council representative to the national paint product stewardship initiative from its inception until 2009. He served on the NAHMMA Board in the creation of NAHMMA Chapters. He holds degrees in business and engineering, is a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager, and is also SWANA/NAHMMA Certified Instructor.
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Larry Sweetser has provided guidance to Household Hazardous Waste programs throughout California for 30 year and specializes in training, permitting, and regulatory assistance to local government and facility operators. Mr. Sweetser has been assisting with the California Annual Household Hazardous Waste Conference Training Sessions since 2002 as well as providing training for the Rural Counties' Environmental Services Joint Powers Authority. Mr. Sweetser frequently participates in regulatory discussions related to HHW operations.
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Liz Wagner is an Environmental Scientist with the Statewide Technical and Analytical Services Branch of CalRecycle. She is one of the key staff implementing CalRecycle’s Household Hazardous Waste Reporting System. She also specializes in Extended Producer Responsibility and oversight of the California Paint Stewardship Program. She graduated from UC Santa Barbara with an environmental studies degree.
Moderator: Dee Johnson,
, Novato Sanitary District
Presentations/Handouts
UO-5: Used Oil Recycling to Zero Waste Partnerships
Studio II
The City of Oceanside will conduct a workshop for state and local agencies to demonstrate how they, like Oceanside, can increase awareness and change behaviors to increase recycling of used oil and filters and advance additional environmental issues such as Zero Waste and pollution prevention. We will outline and demonstrate new and innovative partnerships and tools. Our presentation will introduce new technologies and approaches that help businesses increase awareness with their employees about the importance of recycling used oil.
Speakers
Colleen Foster,
Senior Management Analyst - Solid Waste and Recycling, City of Oceanside
Speaker-submitted biosketch
Over the past 9 years, Colleen Foster has successfully transformed a municipal Solid Waste and Recycling program to an award winning Zero Waste community based initiative that is now owned by multiple groups, public and private partnerships alike. Ms. Foster has been instrumental in creating successful relationships that foster environmental collaboration and program development that meet and exceed our community’s conservation and zero waste goals. Ms. Foster's holds a Bachelor’s Degree from UC Davis in International Sustainable Development, and a Master’s from Vermont Law School in Environmental Law and Policy.
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Bill Dean is the principal of Dean & Associates, an environmental consulting and education firm currently involved in several innovative programs. They are expanding and enhancing “Where You Live” for Oceanside. A year long “SWPPP Program” in five Encinitas Union School District sites, have 5th and 6th grade students writing and implementing a full scale Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan for their campus. City of Encinitas is funding a campus wide recycling program at Oak Crest Middle School using special needs students to design, implement and maintain a program to recycle 80% of the waste stream.
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