Below is the event schedule for the three-day 2020 National Zero Waste Conference.
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Building a Circular Economy with Zero Waste Businesses
December 1, 2020 Session 1
Welcome/Introductions
- Leslie Lukacs, NRC Conference Co-Chair
- Dave Keeling, NRC President
- Sophie Hahn, Vice-Mayor, City of Berkeley
Panelists
- Gary Liss, Gary Liss & Associates and NRC Board (Moderator)
- Joseph Button, Straus Family Creamery
- Mandi McKay, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
- Clare Miflin, AIA, NYC “Zero Waste Design Guidelines”
Zero Waste for Industrial, Commercial and Institutional Facilities
December 1, 2020 – Session 2
Moderated Discussion Panel
- Bob Gedert. President, NRC (Moderator)
- Stephanie Barger, U.S. Green Building Council, TRUE Zero Waste
- Sue Beets-Atkinson, SBM Services and Chair, GBCI Zero Waste Advisory Council
- Lin King, Cal Zero Waste, UC Berkeley
- Angela A. Moore, Missouri Historical Society
- Mateus Pecanha, Zero Waste Brazil
International Zero Waste Hierarchy of Highest and Best Use
December 1, 2020 – Session 3
Moderated Discussion Panel:
- Bob Gedert. President, NRC (Moderator)
- Jamie Kaminski, Zero Waste Canada
- Michael Sangiacomo, President, Recology
Zero Waste Community Plans
December 2, 2020 – Session 1
Panelists
- Denise Patel, GAIA (Moderator)
- Aditi Varshneya, GAIA Zero Waste Master Plan
- Jack McQuibban, Zero Waste Europe, Zero Waste Plans and Circular Economy
- Julie Sands Tyne, City of San Diego, San Diego Zero Waste Plan
- Portia Sinnott, Zero Waste USA, Zero Waste Principles and Tools
Zero Waste and Climate Change
December 2, 2020 – Session 2
Panelists
- David Krueger, Northern California Recycling Association, Moderator
- Maggie Clarke, Maggie Clarke Environmental and Manhattan Solid Waste Advisory Board
- Pal Martensson, Let’s Do It World, “Lessons from the Amazon: Lungs of the World”
Welcome and Introductions
December 3, 2020 – Session 1
Panelists
- Alec Cooley, NRC Conference Co-Chair
- Bob Gedert, NRC President, “Revitalization of NRC Buy Recycled Business Alliance”
Zero Waste and Climate Change
December 3, 2020 – Session 2
Panelists
- Stephen Bantillo, NRC Vice President and Policy Committee Co-Chair
- David Pinsky, Greenpeace Oceans & Plastics Campaigner
- Nina Butler, More Recycling and Circularity in Action
Recycling Market Development and Infrastructure
December 3, 2020 – Session 3 – Room A
Panelists
- Manuel Medrano, Association of Recycling Market Development Administrators and City of Chula Vista, Moderator
- Wayne Gjerde, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and NRC Board member
- Bret Bigger, Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries
- Ruth Abbe, Co-Chair, CRRA Global Recycling Council
- Lisa Skumatz, Skumatz Economic Research Associates
- Susan Kinsella, Conservatree
- Neil Seldman, Institute for Local Self-Reliance
- Elisa Seltzer, Resource Recycling Systems
- Martin Bourque, Berkeley Ecology Center (Moderator)
- Nina Butler, More Recycling and NRC Board
- Susan Kinsella, Conservatree
- Rory Bakke, Sustainable Concepts Studio
- Alicia Culver, Responsible Purchasing Institute
- Sarah O’Brien, Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council
- Gina Wu Lee, Upcyclers Network
- Lynn Hoffman, Eureka Recycling
- Jeff Donlevy, Mings Recycling
Organics and Zero Waste
December 3, 2020 – Session 3 – Room B
Panelists
- Ana Carvalho, Zero Waste International Alliance (Moderator)
- Neil Edgar, California Compost Coalition
- Matt Cotton, US Composting Council
- Will Bakx, California Organics Recycling Council of CRRA
- Kourtnii Brown, Sustainable Economies Law Center
- Marvin Hayes, Baltimore Compost Collective
- Kelley Dennings, Center for Biological Diversity, Population and Sustainability (Moderator)
- Christie Keith, Break Free from Plastics Steering Committee and GAIA
- Christienne DeTournay, Berkeley Zero Waste Commission
- Miriam Gordon, Upstream
- Laura Anthony, Save the Albatross Coalition and Zero Waste San Diego