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CRI hosts webinars throughout the year on topics of interest and importance to the recycling community.

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Deposit Return Systems in Germany and Lithuania

Date: Thursday, April 11, 2024
Time: 9 AM – 10:30 AM Pacific
(6 AM – 7:30 AM Hawaii, 10 AM – 11:30 AM Mountain, 11 AM – 12:30 PM Central, 12 PM – 1:30 PM Eastern)



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In October 2023, CRI President Susan Collins embarked on a five-day, multi-stakeholder “recycling expedition” to Germany and Lithuania. Join our information-packed webinar for insights and lessons learned based on these countries’ effective, high-performing deposit return and extended producer responsibility systems.

The expedition was sponsored by Texans for Clean Water and Green Dot USA and facilitated by the Ocean Plastics Leadership Network (OPLN).

Webinar speakers include:  
•    Gintaras Varnas, CEO of Užstato Sistemos Administratorius (Lithuania)
•    CRI President Susan Collins.

Additional speakers to be announced soon!

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about international deposit programs!

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In his New York Times opinion piece, John Tierney concluded that recycling is  “wasteful….costly and ineffectual.” We know this isn’t true, but we also know there’s room for improvement. With that in mind, our next webcast will deconstruct a familiar but critical issue—contamination—to examine how much material is lost in the recycling process so that we can design better systems that don’t lose so much. Contamination of materials is one problem that has numerous impacts on stakeholders invested in recycling - including consumers and environmentalists.
 
The webcast will explain the difference between the contamination that happens when curbside recycling bins are filled with items that shouldn’t be there, and the contamination that results when material is improperly sorted. We will look at three research studies that examined materials after they were sorted and quantified how much material was improperly sorted. 
 
Join the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, NAPCOR, and the American Forest and Paper Association as they discuss the effects contamination has on recycling and utilization of materials. Single stream versus mixed waste, including the economics of differing systems will also be addressed.

CRI’s Susan Collins will moderate the panel of experts.



Panel Includes:

Resa Dimino - Director of Public Policy, NAPCOR

Resa is the Director of Public Policy for the National Association for PET Container Resources and has more than 20 years of experience in recycling policy, programs and business development. At NAPCOR she focuses on policy issues that are in accordance with NAPCOR’s mission: promoting and protecting the PET package, and increasing the collection of postconsumer PET packaging as integral to its sustainable attributes. 
 


Peter Spendelow – Natural Resource Specialist, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality

Peter has worked on solid waste and recycling issues for the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality since 1985, beginning with implementation of Oregon's 1983 Recycling Opportunity Act, and most recently helping to develop and pass legislation in 2015 implementing Oregon's Materials Management program. Peter has also overseen Oregon's seven waste composition studies and two recycling composition studies since 1992. Other areas of work include the Oregon Bottle Bill, plastics recycling, used oil recycling, and solid waste and recycling policy development and interpretation.
 


Brian Hawkinson – Executive Director, Recovered Fiber, American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA)

Brian is executive director, Recovered Fiber, at the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA). In this capacity, he manages issues and programs that promote increased paper recovery for recycling. He is a former adjunct faculty member at The George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management and is a past member of the board of directors of the National Recycling Coalition.
Brian holds a BBA from James Madison University and an MBA from the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech.

 

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