The U.S. EPA Disaster Debris Recovery Tool provides emergency planners and responders at the federal, state, tribal and local levels with a tool to plan and implement proper recovery, recycling and disposal of disaster debris. The scope of the tool reaches beyond disasters to include green remediation and sustainable materials management technical assistance.

Join PSI, the International Solid Waste Agency (ISWA), and the Extended Producer Responsibility Alliance (EXPRA) an upcoming webinar on July 1 at 9:00 am ET: “Master Class EPR: Understanding the Basics.” The webinar will introduce the concept of EPR, provide an overview of its history, present the status of EPR today, and consider its potential for the next decade.

Free Webinar

July 21, 2020, 1:00 – 2:30 EST

Join the Glass Recycling Coalition for a free one-hour webinar to learn about our MRF glass certification program on June 17 at 2 pm ET. Learn from GRC's MRF certification committee on the value of this certification. Hear from MRF and industry and MRFs experts about how they handle glass in their systems.

This webinar will highlight the role of procurement in stimulating recycling markets, explain the government’s “buy-recycled” program and help facilitate public review of the program. Buying products with recycled content fosters the diversion and recycling of materials from the solid waste stream and promotes the use of these materials in the manufacture of new products.

Marion County former EarthWISE guru now Master Recycler Rockstar, Alan Pennington will be back hosting a new webinar on June 10th at 10:30 am: Materials Management and Climate Change. Find out how we can use life cycle analysis to discover the impacts everyday materials have on our climate. And, using this info, how we might make better decisions on what and how we use things.

You will learn about DEQ’s plans to reduce food waste through prevention and recovery by 50 percent by 2030. 

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Are you ready to learn how Marion County's unique solid waste system (that's garbage; recycling; composting, etc.) works? Then sign up today for a free, half-hour webinar where you'll learn where your waste goes, what happens to it, and how we work to reduce, reuse, and recycle as much as possible before it ends up as garbage.