Three days of networking and engagement
2024 Schedule
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Wednesday, Nov 13
9:00 AM – 7:00 PM
REGISTRATION OPEN
10:30 AM - 12:00PM
SRO MEETING
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
WELCOME & OPENING PLENARY: Women in Circularity
2:00 PM – 7:00 PM
EXHIBIT HALL OPEN
2:15 PM – 2:45 PM
BREAK
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM
CONCURRENT SESSION: Urban Leadership in Reuse: Policy and Strategic Action
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM
CONCURRENT SESSION: Be a Recycling Resource: How to Engage with the Media and Fight Disinformation
2:45 PM – 4:45 PM
WORKSHOP: Residential Food Scraps Collection and Composting 101
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM
BREAK
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
CONCURRENT SESSION: Connecting Innovation and Grassroots Efforts to Curtail Contamination
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
CONCURRENT SESSION: EPR & DRS: Better Together?
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
RECEPTION
Thursday, Nov 14
7:00 AM – 7:00 PM
REGISTRATION OPEN
7:30 AM – 7:00 PM
EXHIBIT HALL OPEN
7:45 AM – 8:30 AM
BREAKFAST
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM
PLENARY: Who Decides What’s Recyclable?
9:30 AM – 9:45 AM
BREAK
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM
CONCURRENT SESSION: Textile Recycling: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM
CONCURRENT SESSION: Conversations in Compostable Packaging
9:45 AM – 12:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Resident Education
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM
BREAK
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
CONCURRENT SESSION: Developing End Markets for Recovered Materials
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
CONCURRENT SESSION: Building Consensus for Legislative Action
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
LUNCH & GUEST SPEAKER: The Language of Leadership
1:15 AM –2:15 PM
PLENARY: EPR: Extended Producer Responsibility, or Extra Problematic Recycling?
2:15 PM – 2:45 PM
BREAK
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM
CONCURRENT SESSION: EPR for Non-Curbside Materials
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM
CONCURRENT SESSION: Secondary Sortation - When Once is Not Enough
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM
CONCURRENT SESSION: Climate Impacts of Packaging
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM
BREAK
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
CONCURRENT SESSION: Saying Yes in the Land of No
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
CONCURRENT SESSION: Leveraging Partnerships to Achieve Program Growth
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
WORKSHOP: Recycling through High-Performance Recycling Policy: Creating a Circular and Climate-Resilient Future
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
RECEPTION
Friday, Nov 15
7:00 AM – 8:30 AM
REGISTRATION OPEN
8:00 AM – 8:45 AM
BREAKFAST
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
EXHIBIT HALL OPEN
8:45 AM – 9:45 AM
CONCURRENT SESSION: Finding the Funds, Getting the Grant
8:45 AM – 9:45 AM
CONCURRENT SESSION: Shaping Tomorrow's Cities: Integrating Reuse Into Infrastructure and Services
8:45 AM – 9:45 AM
CONCURRENT SESSION: Principles, Successes and Shortcomings of EPR Legislation
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM
BREAK
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
CLOSING PLENARY: If We Could Do It Over, What Would We Do?
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