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Conference Agenda
FALL
CONFERENCE & BOARD MEETING
UPDATED AGENDA
October 26 - 27,
2004
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Tuesday, October 26, 2004
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| 8:30 |
Registration & Continental Breakfast
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| 9:00 |
Welcoming Remarks: John Trevor, RI RRC, President,
NERC Board of Directors
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| 9:30 |
Presidential Candidate Kerry's Environmental Platform ~ Laurie
Burt, Senior Partner, Foley
Hoag LLP
President George W. Bush's Environmental Platform ~
Office of Environmental Quality (invited)
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| 10:30 |
The Latest News on Beverage Container
Recycling Markets
- Overview of Beverage Container Markets ~ Wendy Pratt, NewPoint Consulting
- PET Markets ~ Mike Schedler, Vice President of Technology, National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR)
- State Efforts to Support the Marketplace ~ Darryl Young, previously head of the CA Department of Conservation
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| 12:30 |
LUNCH
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| 1:30 |
The Invisible Recyclable ~ Industrial By-Products
- Overview of Industrial By-products Beneficial Use Summits
and Existing Issues
Mike Giuranna, Solid Waste Specialist, US EPA, Region 3
- Overview of Existing Markets for:
- Coal Ash - John Glenn, Project Manager of C2P2 Initiative, EPA Headquarters
- Foundry Sand - Chris Moyer, Vice President of the Pennsylvania
Foundry Association
- Paper Mill Sludge - Peter M. Coleman General Manager, Erseco, Inc.
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| 5:30 - 7:30 |
Social Hour at the Northampton Brewery, sponsored
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Wednesday, October 27, 2004
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| 7:30 |
Advisory Member Breakfast - By Invitation Only
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| 8:30 |
Registration & Continental Breakfast
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| 9:00 |
Welcoming Remarks: Jeffrey Bednar, PA DEP, Vice
President, NERC Board of Directors
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| 9:15 |
It's Time Be Proactive: Let's Use Our
Regional Strengths to Influence the Future of Recycling ~ What
Would it Mean if We Didn't Recycle?
Pete Grogan, Weyerhaeuser Company, Manager of Market Development
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| 10:15 |
Toxicity in Packaging - It's there & it matters!
- Session Introduction & NERC's Role in the Toxics in Packaging
Clearinghouse (TPCH) ~ Lynn
Rubinstein, NERC
- Background of Model Toxics in Packaging Legislation - who,
what, where, when, how & why ~ Dave
Westcott, CT
DEP, TPCH Chair
- Impact of Legislation on Packaging Manufacturers - An Industry
Observer's Perspective ~ Eric Greenberg, Principal Attorney,
Eric F. Greenberg, PC; Legal Editor, Packaging Digest Magazine;
General Counsel, Institute of Packaging Professionals
- Effect on operations and bottom line,
- Packaging in states that have adopted Toxics in Packaging
legislation as compared to states & countries without
these laws, and
- Technical implications & substitutes
- Impact and Enforcement of Model Toxics in Packaging Legislation ~ Victor Bell, Environmental
Packaging International
- In the U.S. and other countries, and
- What needs to be done to increase visibility & activity
on this issue
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| 12:45 |
LUNCH
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| 1:45 |
Environmental Auditing of Electronics Recyclers: Making sure that they are doing what you want them to do &
not doing what you don't!
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Thursday, October 28 ~
NERC Board of Directors Meeting
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| 8:00 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast |
8:30 a.m. -
12:00 noon |
- Conference Feedback and Suggestions
- Director's Report
- Project Updates
- Treasurer's Report
- Updates from Board and Advisory Members
- EPA Updates
- Dates & locations for 2005 Conferences
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TPCH Membership Meeting
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| 1 - 5 p.m. |
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