Zero Waste Week Speakers

* The Bag Ban cities of San Francisco, San Jose and Portland will all update us on their ordinances and implementation
* Portland will also be speaking about its bi-weekly garbage collection implementation
* Kyle Wiens, the CEO/Founder of iFixit and Dozuki will be telling his story of repair and reuse
* Bob Gedert will be speaking about the new City of Austin, Texas Resource Recovery Master Plan
* Recycling Reinvented will tell us about their new organization and its EPR mission
* Mary Lou Van Deventer will give analysis of some EPR legislation and results of some implemented programs
* Zero Waste Energy will speak about their anaerobic digestion projects
* CalRecycle will update us on anaerobic digestion developments
* GreenBlue‘s Sustainable Packaging Coalition will be speaking about the How2Recycle Label, a harmonized packaging system
* Garth Schultz of the City of El Cerrito on their beautiful new publicly funded Recycling Center
* Alameda County HHW on Pharmaceutical EPR and the pending lawsuit
* Manuel Medrano of the City of Chula Vista on Reuse in San Diego County
* Terry McDonald of Saint Vincent DePaul of Lane County Oregon on reuse
* Yerdle.com on their new reuse website
* Todd Sutton of WasteSleuth.com and Michael Chandler of the City of Martinez on their Sustainable Citizen workshops
* Lois Courchaine of Central Contra Costa Solid Waste Authority on Organics in Contra Costa County
* Dana Frasz of FoodShift.org on reducing food waste
* Paul Fresina of Paintcare on Paint EPR for California
* Michael Gross of Zanker on C&D Facilities certification
* Hillary Near of Cascadia Consulting on compostables bioplastic testing and news
* Kristina McCaffery of the City of San Jose on Wet/Dry processing
* Sonoma Compost will explain their biodynamic compost process, and
* More speakers to come with over 30 sessions in all!