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Conference Presentations:
CRA would like to wholeheartedly thank everyone who made our 26th Annual Conference a success.

The following list contains all of the presentations that were made available to the Carolina Recycling Association office.

 

Monday, March 21

Collegiate Recycling Coalition Workshop and Tour	Jennifer Sellers (Coastal Carolina University) Jen Jones (College of Charleston) Anna Lynott (Resource Recycling Systems) Kat Pohlman (UNC-Wilmington) Robert Riddle (NC Department of Administration) Sandy Skolochenko (NC DEACS) Lucien Rosenbloom (Warren Wilson College) Natalie Williams (Warren Wilson College) Ben Paulson (Warren Wilson College) Jack Terrell (Appalachian State University) Annie Lopez (NC State University)
C&D Workshop and C&D Recycling Facility Tour	Stacey Washington (SC DHEC) Regina Guyer (UNC-Charlotte) Bill Hilling (Horry County, SC) Joe Suleyman (New Hanover County, NC) Randall Baker (Abbey Green Wendy Worley (NC RBAC)
Sustainability Assessment Workshop	Tom Rhodes (NC DEACS) Heather Cashwell (NC DEACS) Amanda Fairley (Waste Management)

Tuesday, March 22

Education & Outreach Workshop	Tina Lindler (SC DHEC) Jane Hiller (Sonoco Recycling) Mary Margret Mendenhall (SC Educator) Becky Dunstan (Wake County, NC) Mary McClellan (Recommunity Recycling) Lesson Plan
HHW Workshop	Tony Gallagher (NC DWM) Michele Sakwa (3RC) Derrick Bell (NC DA&CS PDAP) Teresa Baker (Granville County Schools) Rachel Kippar (Henderson County)
KAB Workshop	Cecile Carson (Keep America Beautiful) Lisa Rider (Keep Onslow Beautiful) Tania Dautlick (Keep Durham Beautiful) Carley Caldwell (Keep Gastonia Beautiful) KAB Mascots KAB BC Cartoon
Zero Waste to Landfill 101	Angela Barger (NC DEACS) Stacey Washington (SC DHEC) Jan Foster (Waste Reduction Partners) Sandra Carter (Daimler Trucks North America) Ryan Pennington (Daimler Trucks North America)
General Session I Recycling Megatrends: Where We Have Been and Where We are Going	Bill Moore (Moore & Associates) Eddie Ingle (UNIFI) Dave Keeling (Steel Recycling Institute)
Concurrent Sessions
1- Glass and the Modern Mix: Finding Solutions that Work	Arthur J. Ligon (York County, SC) LaDonna Bolton (Republic Services) Ron Moore (American Recycling of WNC) Bill Clark (SMI)
2- Plastics: Possibilities to Expand the Mix	Bev Fermor (Waste Reduction Partners) Jordan Tony (Moore Recycling Associates) Marty Danko (Verity Recycling) Shari Jackson (American Chemistry Council)
3- State of Practice: Single Stream Recycling, Material Processing Technology, & Anaerobic Digestion	David Lank (ReCommunity Recycling) Gary Bilbro (SMART Recycling US) Peter Schirk (BHS-Sonthofen Inc.)
4- Prepping the Public to Recycle Right	Tonya Randell (Moore Recycling Associates) Samantha Yager (City of Columbia, SC) Jason Hale (The Recycling Partnership) Bianca Howard (City of Raleigh, NC) Tina Lindler (SC DHEC)

Wednesday, March 23

General Session II Paths to Sustainability: Corporate Leadership in Zero Waste and Recycling	Greer Tidwell (Bridgestone Americas) Julie Zaniewski (Unilever)
Concurrent Sessions
5- County and Rural Recycling: Models to Model	Anne Blindt (Independent Consultant) Amanda Kain (Catawba County, NC) Leslie Hatchell (York County, SC) Alysen Woodruff (York County, SC) Andy Davis (Wilson County)
6- The Evolving Ton: How Recyclables Change in the Past and Future	Marty Seaman (Resource Recycling Systems) Adam Gendell (Sustainable Packaging Coalition) Amanda Fairley (Waste Management)
7- Winning the Food Loss Game	Meghan Baldwin (Wake County, NC) Harvey Gibson (Charleston County Bees Ferry Compost Facility) Amy Brooks (Brooks Contractor) Paulette Dunn (Loaves & Fishes) Dan Schnitzer (Chapel Hill – Carrboro City Schools
8- Better Together: MRF and Community Programs	Cody Marshall (The Recycling Partnership) Mary McClellan (ReCommunity Recycling) Laurette Hall (Mecklenburg County, NC) Jane Hiller (Sonoco Recycling)
CRA Town Hall and Business Meeting	State of the CRA

Thursday, March 24

Concurrent Sessions
- Keeping it Clean: Real Contamination Solutions	David Lank (ReCommunity Recycling) Alex Arnett (City of Greensboro, NC) Srijana Guilford (Town of Cary, NC) Jacob Seldin (Springfield, Massachusetts)
- Putting Data to Work to Improve Program Performance	Bianca Howard (City of Raleigh, NC) Nick Crawford (Mecklenburg County, NC) Rob Taylor (NC DEACS) Tim Atkins (City of Spartanburg, SC)
- Best of the Rest: Recovering Challenging Materials	Samantha Yager (City of Columbia, SC) Beverly Hester (Catawba County, NC) Biojoe Renwick (Midlands Biofuels) Ben Bryant (New River Tire) Shirley Mims (Richland County, SC) John Votaw (Southeastern Plastics Recovery) Joe Suleymann (New Hanover County, NC) Ken Webb (ECOFLO Inc.) Joel Willard (Cleanlites) Tim Warren (Call2Recycle) Roy Baldwin (Wake County, NC)
- Break through Plateaus: Recycling On the Go	Christina Moskos (Charleston County, SC) Blair Pollock (Orange County, NC) John Adair (Town of Surfside Beach, SC) Jake Wilson (Keep Mecklenburg Beautiful)
Closing General Session - Why Can't We Just Get Along: Building Strong and Lasting MRF/Community Partnerships	Scott Mouw (NC DEACS) Anne Germain (National Waste & Recycling Association) Mike Pope (Sonoco) Jeff Smithberger (Mecklenburg County, NC)