Past Recycling Resilience Webinars

Recycling Resilience: Educators Strike Back!

May 4, 2022

Join us for our next Recycling Resilience series FREE webinar: Educators Strike Back! Recycling professionals from communities, haulers, and colleges will discuss outreach and education projects they accomplished over the last year. As budgets have tightened, organizations have had to come up with creative techniques to provide recycling education. Speakers will explain how they used cart tagging, social media, creative marketing, and grant funding to encourage residents to recycle correctly. Join the webinar to hear about approaches to recycling outreach that won’t break your budget.

Panel:

Allison Harvey, Chief Administrative Officer – Town of Clover, SC
Shelby Lewis, Recycling Coordinator – City of Tampa Department of Solid Waste & EPM
Edgar Castro Tello, Recycling Specialist – City of Tampa Department of Solid Waste & EPM
Ashley Jenkins, Recycling Program Coordinator – SC Department of Commerce
BioJoe Renwick, Head Honcho – Re-Soil Commercial Composting
Elizabeth Morgan, Environmental Education Specialist – City of Rock Hill, SC

Moderator: Shannon Culpepper, Recycling & Education Specialist – Chatham County Solid Waste & Recycling

Recycling Resilience: Drop-off Programs Getting it Right

January 14, 2020

Check out the fifth webinar in the Recycling Resilience series: Drop-off Programs Getting it Right. Drop-off collection centers serve a critical role in ensuring universal access to trash and recycling services in the Carolinas. Learn how these centers are positioning for the future of drop-off collections, how they plan and pay for programs, and ways to operate effectively and efficiently, and how they have adapted services due to coronavirus.

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Joe Fitzpatrick – Recycling & Compliance Coordinator, Wake County, NC

Caleb Sinclair – Director of Environmental Management, Rowan County NC

Moderator: Shannon Culpepper – Recycling & Education Specialist, Chatham County, NC

 

Recycling Resilience: Tagging and Enforcement

November 5, 2020

Check out the fourth webinar in the Recycling Resilience series: Tagging and Enforcement. During the COVID-19 pandemic, contamination in the residential recycling stream has resurged as more people are staying home. The material going to our Material Recovery Facilites (MRFs) must be clean to sustain a healthy recycling industry in the Carolinas. In this webinar local governments, recycling support businesses, and haulers present how they have tackled contamination using tagging programs and enforcement mechanisms. Learn how these methods can be used in your community to keep your recycling stream clean and ensure the strength of your recycling program.

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Joe Fitzpatrick – Recycling & Compliance Coordinator, Wake County, NC
Hurst Renner – Manager of Public Policy & Smart City Partnerships, Rubicon
Molly Yeager – Corporate Communications Manager, Rumpke
Tori Carle – Waste Reduction Supervisor, City of Greensboro, NC
Moderator: Mike Greene – Industrial Development Specialist, NC DEQ

Recycling Resilience: Defending Recycling

August 11, 2020

Our third webinar in the Recycling Resilience series: Defending Recycling. Recycling is under a great deal of political and financial pressure in many communities. Combating “throw the baby out with the bathwater” thinking is not as hard as it sounds, as many communities have demonstrated. While a few programs have buckled under these pressures, others have continued to thrive by implementing creative solutions, making small changes together with their MRF partners, engaging citizen advocates, and having strong leadership in place. In this webinar, several recycling programs and communities discussed where success was achieved through one or more of these solutions, and where partnerships and resources made all the difference in keeping essential recycling services available to the community.

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Tori Carle – Waste Reduction Supervisor, City of Greensboro
Tony Krasienko – Municipal Sales Manager, Republic Services
Alma H. Resendiz – Recycling Coordinator, Rutherford County Solid Waste
Traude Sander – Recycling Coordinator, Lexington County Dept. of Solid Waste Mgmt.
Gifford Stack – Retired Recycling Industry Professional, Caswell Beach, NC

Moderator: Matt James – NC DEACS

Recycling Resilience: Adapting to the New Normal

June 24, 2020

The second webinar in our FREE Recycling Resilience series provided resources you need to adapt and thrive.  While questions and uncertainty are swirling about what a new recycling “normal” will look like, communities are committed to recycling.  Programs across the Carolinas are showing creativity and resiliency. Many are achieving a delicate balance to keep employees safe while maintaining core services. Others are making sure residents continue to receive the recycling services they value despite tight budgets at the local level. NC DEACS and SC DHEC provided a bird’s eye view of what’s happening in the two states and outline strategies that are keeping programs evolving.  Watch the recording for free below:

Agenda Included:

• State of the States: North and South Carolina will share insight from statewide polls
• Recycling 911: If programs are in jeopardy, call for help!
• Community Engagement: Voices from the public have big impacts
• Funding Reset
• Moving Forward
• Q & A

Recycling Resilience: MRF and Collection Safety During COVID-19

April 23, 2020

Thanks to everyone who joined us for our webinar panel and forum to discuss what is on everyone’s mind right now: Health and Safety. You may have asked in recent weeks; Is what I am doing safe? Are my employees as protected as possible while providing recycling collection and other essential services? Special thanks to our partners RRS, NC DEACS, and SC DHEC who helped us to to provide attendees with an opportunity to hear from the experts &  peers, express your concerns, and share what you are doing to increase safety and reduce the potential spread of COVID-19.  Missed the webinar?  Check out the recording below!

Webinar Agenda:

• Introduction and Welcome: Mary McClellan – Executive Director, Carolina Recycling Association
• Moderator: Marissa Segundo – Consultant, RRS
• NC Overview: Sandy Skolochenko – Community Development Specialist
• SC Overview: Alexandra Miller – Local Government Liason, SC DHEC
• Collection Safety Panel:
  • Alex Miller – Local Government Liason, SC DHEC
  • Tracy Nestor – Senior Area Manager of Municipal Sales, Republic Services
  • Bob Holden – Solid Waste Division Manager, Town of Cary (NC)
  • Laura Merrell, Ph.D., C.P.H., James Madison University, Department of Health Sciences
• MRF Safety Panel:
  • Patrick McDonald – Raleigh Plant Manager, Sonoco Recycling
  • Joe Hack – Engineering & Compliance Manager, Mecklenburg County (NC)
  • Laura Merrell, Ph.D., C.P.H., James Madison University, Department of Health Sciences
• Live Forum, Q&A, Polling