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October 2018
Welcome

Dear Recycling Market Development Zone (RMDZ) Workshop Attendee:

We are pleased to invite you to CalRecycle's Zone Works Training Workshop on October 24-25, 2018 at the Holiday Inn in Sacramento. Zone Works offers the unique opportunity for Zone Administrators, CalRecycle Zone Liaisons and Loan staff, and valued program partners to regularly convene and discuss current issues and to coordinate business assistance activities. Through the educational and networking sessions, attendees will have the opportunity to learn about new and expanding funding opportunities and other business incentives to support recycling manufacturers and reuse/recovery networks.

Pre-Workshop Opportunities

• The morning of October 24th, Zone Administrators are encouraged to attend the California Association of Recycling Market Development Zones (CARMDZ) meeting. This is a meeting where Zone Administrators can talk among themselves about issues important to them.
   
• Additionally, for new Zone Administrators, CalRecycle and CARMDZ will host a RMDZ 101 training to review roles and share resources.

Workshop Summary

Following the CARMDZ meeting, RMDZ 101 Training, and lunch on Day One, October 24th, the first session of the training workshop will focus on what zones are doing as a result of China’s policies, e.g. slowing conveyors, decreasing contamination, and short- and long-term infrastructure development.

Successful operators who rescue food, compost, and/or run anaerobic digesters in anticipation of SB 1383 will present during the Session 2.

The third session on Day One will be Peer Share. This is where zone administrators can share their business assistance experience with their peers since the last workshop. ZAs can also share challenges, e.g. how are cannabis operations affecting the manufacturers in your zone, and see if their peers have solutions to offer.

During the last session of the day, learn about the power and inexpensive marketing potential of social media and other electronic platforms.

We will conclude the first day with a networking reception during which attendees have the opportunity to discuss the material shared throughout the afternoon’s training and have additional access to workshop presenters.

On Day Two, CARMDZ and CalRecycle will share with you the Project and Loan criteria for RMDZ loans that we both recently updated. During this session, we will solicit your input! Then we will finalize those changes after Zone Works through our normal public process. We will also share with you eligible and ineligible project types and what makes businesses financially eligible and ineligible.

We will email the draft criteria to you before Zone Works so that you can consider what input you’d like to share during this session.

We will wrap up our workshop with a session where California manufacturers will talk about their manufacturing processes and about how China’s policies have affected their feedstocks.

As you can see, the workshop agenda represents a diverse array of excellent topics and knowledgeable speakers. We hope you will join us in Sacramento on October 24-25, 2018 to learn and to share your specific experience with others.

In the meantime, if you have any questions about Zone Works, please contact me.

Sincerely,

 

Frank Severson, Zone Works Coordinator
Local Assistance and Market Development