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| Date(s): |
August 6, 2009 |
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Audio/Web Broadcast |
| Cost: |
Members: $150.00
Non Members: $200.00 |
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| Description: |
How can you adapt to the ever-changing recycling market?
This program focuses on finding and creating local markets for waste materials. Waste diversion goals can be achieved even when gas prices are up and recycling markets are down.
Lisa Skumatz, Ph.D., will give an overview of where recycling is in today's economic climate, tailoring your recycling program, and making cost-effective and high-performing choices. Additionally, Dr. Skumatz will discuss Pay As You Throw (PAYT) programs as a model for waste diversion and recycling.
Barry Edwards, P.E., presents a case study in waste management by highlighting the Catawba County EcoComplex. The EcoComplex combines waste management systems, energy production, and industry to form a renewable energy industrial park. Mr. Edwards will illustrate how the EcoComplex has promoted waste reduction and economic development.
After viewing this program, participants will better be able to:
• Identify the opportunities for recycling within your own waste stream and turn your waste into commodities
• Understand the need to tailor your program around your available materials, industry, and the needs of your community
• Communicate with economic development teams to build sustainable relationships
This program has been approved for .2 CEUs or 2 PDHs. The form to request these credits is included in the handouts for this program. Please note there is a $5 fee per individual requesting CEUs.
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 Barry B. Edwards, P.E.
Director
Department of Utilities & Engineering
Catawba County Government, NC
Mr. Edwards has been serving as Director of Utilities and Engineering for Catawba County since 1995. As Director, his primary responsibility is to oversee Solid Waste Management, Water, Sewer, Erosion Control, Eco-Complex and Green Energy development and operations including County’s Co-Generation and Electrical Production Facilities, Building Code Compliance and Permitting, and Local Code Compliance services.
Mr. Edwards will speak on the Catawba County Eco-Complex. The Regional Eco-Complex and Resource Recovery Facility is a system designed to recover all useable products and by-products from a group of private and public industrial partners who are located in a close knit defined area, the Eco-Complex. This group of partners work together to use each other’s waste products either as a source of energy (electricity, steam, or heat) or as a raw material for the production of their own product (pallets, lumber, compost, brick shapes/art). These shared relationships bring the old saying of “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” into real life.
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 Lisa Skumatz, Ph.D.
Principal
Skumatz Economic Research Associates, Inc.
(SERA)
Superior, CO
DR. LISA SKUMATZ is a “hands-on” resource economist with the research and consulting firm Skumatz Economic Research Associates, Inc. (www.serainc.com). Lisa and her colleagues split their time working on projects in both recycling / waste management and energy efficiency. For more than 20 years, Lisa has helped hundreds of large and small communities and utilities / regulators across the US analyze practical economic and policy issues in energy and solid waste. SERA, established in 1990,has offices in Boulder and Seattle.
Dr. Skumatz’s work in recycling concentrates on comprehensive planning, and program and policy evaluation / analysis / cost-effectiveness. She is best known for her work in Pay As You Throw (PAYT) and funding options. She has advised US and international solid waste agencies, governments, communities, and regulators on solid waste policy and programs. Lisa has a strong “numbers” orientation – focusing on “what do real-world, operating programs tell us”. She maintains a database of solid waste and recycling programs, policies, and costs from more than 1,300 communities across North America, and has analyzed programmatic features that increase diversion and cost-effectiveness in different situations. She completed work demonstrating the strong performance of waste management programs in reducing greenhouse gases, job creation / economic development, and identifying recycling / diversion programs that perform favorably and cost-effectively relative to energy efficiency strategies.
She has published extensively, and has more than 75 publications in solid waste trade journals and proceedings, and a similar in the energy field. She is considered an expert both in the US and internationally on PAYT, and has, quite literally, “written the book” on PAYT. Her detailed analyses of single stream recycling, source reduction, composting, education programs, social marketing, and commercial diversion options are also widely recognized and cited. She has conducted more than 180 solid waste projects for clients in Peru, Chile, Australia, Japan, and the UK as well as across North America. She has the unique distinction of having won the national lifetime achievement awards in solid waste from the two leading associations – the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) and the National Recycling Coalition (NRC). She served 10 years on the NRC board, 4 years in Washington State (WSRA), and 5 years in Colorado (CAFR). She serves on multiple boards and blue ribbon panels. She has keynoted at multiple state and international conferences and spoken at more than 100 conferences and webinars. She has appeared on “Good Morning America”, Fox Business Channel, Wall Street Journal (several times), International Herald Tribune, Kiplinger’s, and been interviewed by / included in Newsweek, New York Times, and numerous other regional newspaper and radio media. Her work on PAYT recently appeared in “Parade Magazine”, the widely-read Sunday newspaper insert. She previously worked for the federal government (BLS, HEW/DHHS), non-profits (Nader’s PIRG and Econservation Institute), Seattle Solid Waste Utility and other research and consulting firms.
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| Speaker: |
 MODERATOR: Ashley Scherzer
Program Coordinator
City of Lenexa, Public Works
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| Content Questions: |
Christina Davis
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education@apwa.net |
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