The Nebraska Recycling Council will be hosting a webinar on Thursday, July 8 from 12:00 noon-1:00 p.m. CDT on accessibility and recycling. This webinar will feature two panelists, Hillary Scanlon, Founder and CEO of STILSOLUTIONS in Toronto, Canada, and Gloria Eddins, the ADA Coordinator for the State of Nebraska. According to the CDC, 25.6% of adults in the United States live with a disability. In Nebraska, 22.2% of adults live with a disability.

This joint NEWMOA and NERC webinar will focus on the emerging business of upcycling food waste. The presenters will cover:

State of the upcycled food movement - definition, certification standard, and environmental benefits
How upcycling is different than other methods of diverting wasted food – donation, animal feed, composting, anaerobic digestion 
Key challenges with upcycling food waste
Business leaders who are building the food upcycling economy

Presenters:

Join the NRC and the Pennsylvanie Recycling Markets Center for their webinar on paper markets. 

A paper recycling markets industry expert will provide an update on recycled paper in the U.S., and will include updates on collection, markets, and recent challenges, including China’s import restrictions. The session will also include a discussion on the impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic.

Presenter - Megan Workman, Price Reporter/Editor, Fastmarkets RISI

​This discussion will examine the potential benefits that a growing clean materials industry can have in the innovative Northwest economy. We'll talk to industry leaders and innovators on the cutting-edge of the sector about how clean materials can become an emerging economic engine. Plus, there will be plenty of networking time so you can make the connections that make a difference! Click here for the agenda and more info about the series.
 

Join us for a webinar where we’ll share innovative zero waste contracting approaches to reducing and managing materials to advance source reduction, reuse, and recycling. The U.S. Forest Service will share their strategies for achieving net zero waste at all large fire incidents by 2030, and Urban Ore, Inc., will discuss their transfer station salvage, reuse and recycling contract with the City of Berkeley.

Did you know you can save money and the planet at the same time by wasting less food? Food that ends up in a landfill releases methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. There are simple and fun things we can learn to do at home to use more of the food we buy and turn the rest into rich compost that feeds the soil.

Contamination may be one the biggest challenges associated with strategies to recover food waste.

Whether it’s inappropriate materials (e.g. plastic, glass) or emerging contaminants (such as PFAS), contamination leads to a low quality final product, problems for facilities, and environmental challenges.

Dr. Jean MacRae, Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maine, will lead the conversation on emerging contaminants in organics.

In this Science Session, you will learn:

Lithium batteries are key to our modern connected world, from our cellphones and computers to our cars - and not just electric cars! Lithium batteries also have an increasing role in storing electricity for the electric grid which is critical to society and future progress. However, used lithium batteries aren’t like the used alkaline or lead acid batteries that many of us are familiar with handling. Because of the battery’s high energy density and the potential for serious incident, special preparation is needed when shipping these batteries.