How does your community measure up when it comes to Zero Waste? What room is there for improvement? Come learn from several of the nation’s foremost authorities about Zero Waste implementation in this free workshop. Topics will include: Global Zero Waste Community Principles and how they apply to individual communities, development of Zero Waste Strategic Plans and overcoming implementation challenges. 

By attending this session, participants will learn:

• Four keys to Zero Waste from GrassRoots Recycling Network (GRRN)
• Fourteen Global Zero Waste Community Principles and their overarching goals
• What policies, programs and facilities are being adopted to get to Zero Waste
• What are Resource Recovery Parks and key design features
• What are new rules for landfills that need to be adopted
• Different ways the public and employees have been engaged in planning for Zero Waste
• How to fund implementation of Zero Waste for communities

Who should attend this course? Elected officials, staff from planning organizations, government agency staff, etc.

Cost: FREE

VIew tentative agenda here

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