Workshop: Zero Waste Strategies

Special Discounts:

$50 for anyone registering before September 28, 2010

$75 off for ISSP members (can be combined with early bird discount)

This course meets on-line on Tuesdays (Oct 5, 12, 19, 26) at 12:00PM Pacific Time-USA for 60-90 minutes.

Sustainability is a powerful tool for improving business foresight. Sustainability planning helps people foresee emerging threats and take advantage of new opportunities. In the solid waste field, sustainability is often framed as zero waste. Examine what this trend means for your organization.

Learning Objectives:

• Engage in four interactive webinar discussions oriented to stimulate creative thinking and solutions.
• Survey of how the whole waste issue has evolved.
• Gain an understanding of the major waste trends in the current system.
• Gain an understanding of product stewardship.
• Explore a new set of initiatives that can challenge our basic mental models of our thinking.
• Grasp waste challenges: waste-to-energy and when to recycle / when to landfill.
• Discover the best strategies for sustainability, going forward.

Week 1: Zero Waste and Resource Conservation. 

Survey of how the whole waste issue has evolved from traditional public works to a zero waste perspective. Defining waste as a value proposition, rather than a mass of material. What are the real costs involved with waste, not only to your organizations, but also to the environment and society?

Week 2: Product Stewardship.  How should responsibility and cost be allocated? A look at product stewardship and Environmental Performance Review (EPR).

Week 3: Participants will be offered an opportunity in Week 1 to tailor this workshop to their needs.  The topic chosen in Week 1 will be presented in Week 3.

Week 4: Participant presentations.  

Instructor:   Wayne Rifer, an expert in solid waste management, zero waste, and product stewardship at the Zero Waste Alliance.

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