Spend Less by Registering Early
for NERC’s Spring ’10 Workshop:
“Boost Your Marketing Efforts
with Web-Based Resources”

With ever-tightening budgets limiting travel, NERC offers a reduced registration rate for its Spring Workshop until February 18.  Take advantage of this offer and register early to save money!

The Workshop offers expert speakers and training sessions to help you:

Utilize social marketing tools to promote your business or organization.

Measure the environmental benefits of your purchasing and recycling efforts and highlight these practices to promote your products or services.

Use materials trading to save money — by getting rid of unwanted items or purchasing materials for reuse.  

Workshop Sponsors

Date:  March 23, 2010
Location:  Hotel Northampton, Northampton, Massachusetts
Agenda & Registration
Who Should Attend:  Representatives from business, business service providers, state environmental agencies and nonprofit organizations; plus municipal recycling coordinators, sustainability coordinators, and consultants.

For questions on registration, contact Moon Morgan, NERC’s Office Manager.

NERC Launches Online Reuse Marketplace -
First Multi-State Materials Exchange Network

NERC has announced the launch of the Reuse Marketplace, the nation’s first multi-state Materials Exchange network, which enables businesses, government agencies, and nonprofits that have unwanted materials to connect with markets beyond their local areas.  The Reuse Marketplace helps participants in seven states find alternatives to the disposal of valuable materials, and in the process, trim their waste removal costs, reduce the quantity of items they send to landfills, and lower carbon emissions.  

Entities wishing to list items with the Reuse Marketplace can post them on their state’s participating Materials Exchange.  Visitors to the Reuse Marketplace will be able to browse all listings from the eight exchanges.  Businesses, government agencies, and nonprofits will therefore have access to a much broader network of potential takers for their unwanted items than they could reach through their statewide exchanges alone.

NERC has partnered with the individual Materials Exchanges in each of the seven states to help them develop their websites and integrate into the new online Reuse Marketplace.  Ontario-based iWasteNot Systems has developed the technical platform for the site.

For additional information, contact Mary Ann Remolador, NERC’s Assistant Director and Project Manager. 

Electronics Recycling Coordination Clearinghouse Kicks Off At Consumer Electronics Show

On January 7, the National Center for Electronics Recycling (NCER) and the Northeast Recycling Council (NERC) launched the Electronics Recycling Coordination Clearinghouse (ERCC) at the annual International Consumer Electronics Show.

The ERCC is a forum for coordination and information exchange among the state/local agencies that are implementing electronics recycling laws and impacted stakeholders.  The ERCC will identify common area within the laws and coordinate joint approaches.  The ERCC includes a voting state/local government members and an affiliate membership.  Then NCER and NERC would like to thank all of the Founding Members listed below for a very successful launch.  If you would like your organization to become a member, please contact Jason Linnell.

NCER & NERC thank the ERCC’s FOUNDING MEMBERS

Voting Members

• California CalRecycle
• Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection
• Hawaii Department of Health
• Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
• Maine Department of Environmental Protection
• Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
• New York City Department of Sanitation
• New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
• North Carolina Department of Environmental and Natural Resources
• Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Affiliate Members

• Brother International
• Best Buy
• Consumer Electronics Association
• ecoATM
• ECS Refining
• Funai Group
• IMS Electronics Recycling
• Samsung
• Sims Recycling Solutions
• Waste Management Recycle America

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