#RCBC2017 Presentation Overview
Wednesday, June 21
Session One: Illegal Dumping - Developing a Provincial Collaboration
Scott Kyle, Dillon Consulting
In recent years, Dillon has worked with several Canadian municipalities to develop strategies to address issues related to littering and illegal disposal of municipal solid waste. The formulation of approaches to address these challenges has been founded on local stakeholder engagement and international best practices research. Program components to be discussed as part of this presentation will include waste audits, targeted education campaigns, enforcement, and infrastructure.
Paul Henderson, Metro Vancouver and Harry Janda, City of Surrey
Paul Henderson from Metro Vancouver and Harry Janda from the City of Surrey will provide a joint presentation on illegal dumping issues and efforts in Metro Vancouver communities. Paul Henderson will provide an overview of the regional strategy, the context, and the variety of municipal actions applied to the issue. Harry Janda will present details on the innovations and impacts of Surrey's programs that provides alternatives to abandoning waste.
Panelist for Session Roundtable - Sgt. Dean Miller, BC Ministry of Environment Conservation Officer
Thursday, June 22
Session Two: Product Stewardship and the Circular Economy
Provincial-wide Zero Waste Strategy - Sue Maxwell, Resort Municipality of Whistler
In 2016, a group of elected officials convened at the Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) Convention and decided to develop a discussion paper outlining how British Columbia could help to support Zero Waste and the efforts of local governments. Hear about the process, the eight key recommendations, and the next steps.
Competition Model in EPR - Usman Valiante, Corporate Policy Group & Leeanne Fraser, MoE
Details forthcoming.
Circular or Just Going in Circles - Al Metauro, Cascades Recovery+
Switching to a circular economy will not be an easy transition – we need agreement on what “circular” means. Doing so will get us all on the same page and draw our attention to product and packaging design. The producer of the product or package controls its destiny in a circular economy, not the waste management industry, and the producer must do it through design – design that takes into account the environment, the use of natural resources, and at the end-of-life, recovery for reuse.
Canada’s Moving Towards a Circular Economy, and Business Must Prepare Now - Michael W. Zabaneh, Reclay StewardEdge
With #RCBC2017’s overarching goals of reducing waste and building a circular economy, this presentation will offer governments and businesses an overview of current circular economy trends, opportunities, risks, and best practices on a national and an international level. It will also examine public and private sector case studies that highlight the environmental and economic impacts of circular economy system adaptations.
Session Three: Circularity - Policies and Principles to Set the Stage for Circularity
Design in the Circular Economy - Elena Papakosta, Dell Inc.
The traditional linear economic model in which goods are made from raw materials, used, and then discarded at end-of-life is not the logic of the 21st century. As populations and resource pressures grow, forward-looking organizations are recognizing the need for a shift to a circular economy in which nothing is thrown “away” because waste is designed out and materials are reused. This presentation by Dell will look at what the circular economy is, provide two cases of how the company has applied circular thinking to its manufacturing process, and explore how technology can drive the circular ambitions of others.
Driving Improvements in Plastic Packaging’s Environmental Performance Through The Circular Economy & Sustainable Material Management - Joe Hruska, CPIA
Circular Economy (CE) and Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) are powerful concepts driving continuous improvement in the environment and economy to address the growing global pressures on resources due to growing populations and economies. It is critical that these approaches incorporate a lifecycle approach to product/packaging value chains to maximize system performance. This presentation will provide an overview of plastics recycling in Canada, CPIA’s signature Imagebank, define both CE & SMM approaches, and outline why they are complementary while pointing out their differences.
The Worth of a Grain of Sand - Peter Holgate, Ronin8 Technologies
Offering insights, practices, and stories, Peter J. Holgate will deliver a talk on the finite global supply of sand and the staggering impacts if faced with extinction. Peter relates this to the journey of the printed circuit board and explores how Ronin8 Technologies is unlocking the full value of what electronic waste as a multi-faceted resource, all the while inviting the audience to enter into a broader and more impactful paradigm of circularity and being consequential.
Session Four: Reuse Policies and Practices for Circularity
Reuse and Recycling Since 1908 - Tonny Colyn, Salvation Army
The Salvation Army Thrift Stores are in the business of recycling and salvage for resale. A large part of what they do is not only household item and textile diversion, but actual textile recycling. This presentation will look at the successes they have had in reducing large volumes of household items and textile waste from landfills through reuse.
Deconstruction Wood Recovery - Adam Corneil, Naturally Crafted Contracting
In this presentation, Adam Corneil will talk about how the resources once regularly sent to landfill from demolished homes are now transformed in to valuable resources that are being looped back in the circular economy through a combination of sustainable entrepreneurialism and local government bylaw incentives.
A Business Case for Remanufacturing - Vanessa Cone, EAB Tool Company Inc.
EAB Tool Company has created a business model using circular design principles that is able to keep power tool accessories out of landfills. Its green exchange system offers a large selection of long-lasting, high-performance power tool accessories for customers to buy, use, and return for credit towards new blades. The old blades are then brought back to the warehouse in Delta, BC for remanufacturing. Challenges include technical issues, logistics, and most challenging of all, the creation of incentives to win over a target audience that is often skeptical of “remanufactured” labels. EAB’s story demonstrates a real-world example of economic success while incorporating lifecycle considerations and remanufacturing processes into a business model from which other companies can draw insight from.
Session Five: Textiles Recovery and Diversion
Tackling Textile Waste at Home and Abroad - Amelia Eleiter & Wes Baker, Debrand Services Inc.
With potential changes to legislation and a rising social conscience, Debrand has been engaged with researchers, industry stakeholders, and government representatives to look more closely at current challenges and opportunities facing the textile industry. Debrand’s (not-so) famous textile waste duo of Amelia Eleiter and Wes Baker will look to share insights and provide updates on the work of groups such as the Leverage Lab, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, and Fashion Takes Action.
The City of Markham’s Innovative Textile Recycling Program - Claudia Marsales, City of Markham
For many reasons, governments have generally taken a hands-off approach towards textile recycling. Textiles are a poor fit for municipal blue box programs due to high costs and contamination, leaving collection exclusively to charities and for-profit companies. As a result, textile donation containers have become an urban problem with many cities seeking to ban them. Failure to address textile waste is a lost opportunity and is a consequence of inadequate consumer education, insufficient diversion data, and low end-market accountability. In 2012, Markham Council approved a new plan designed to increase diversion to 80%. One of the 10 actions was to create a program that provided expanded diversion opportunities for household textiles. Staff conducted focus groups testing with Markham residents to gauge interest in textile recycling. The results provided insight into how residents managed textile waste and valuable information into the design of Markham’s innovative textile recycling program.
Winter Jacket Re-purposing - Mary Forbes, The Potato House Project
Details forthcoming.
Friday, June 23
Session Six: Organics Diversion
Movie Screening: Just Eat It, The Food Waste Movie
Featuring interviews with TED lecturer, author, and activist Tristram Stuart along with acclaimed author Jonathan Bloom, Just Eat It looks at our systemic obsession with expiry dates, perfect produce and portion sizes, and reveals the core of this seemingly insignificant issue that is having devastating consequences around the globe. Just Eat It brings farmers, retailers, inspiring organizations, and consumers to the table in a cinematic story that is equal parts education and delicious entertainment.
Tamara Shulman, Tetra Tech Canada - Waste Composition: Sorting out Program Impacts
Between 2010 and 2015, British Columbia’s two most populous districts – Metro Vancouver and the Capital Regional District – implemented organic management strategies to include the phasing in of incentives and/or surcharges leading to a full organics disposal ban in 2015. In 2016, Tetra Tech worked with both districts to complete comprehensive waste composition studies to monitor their waste streams from various waste generating sectors and determine the changes that have occurred since 2010. These studies confirm that there has been significant progress in the reduction of organic waste in the garbage within these two districts, which represent 62% of BC’s population. This presentation will share the most recent waste composition data as well as detailed information about the quantities and types of material of interest such as avoidable food waste, textiles, and product stewardship items.
Session Seven: Communications, Messaging and Collaboration
Changing Behaviour by Delivering The Right Message - Rod Roodenburg, Ion Brand Design
Designing the right visual and written language to connect with your audience is critical to changing behaviour and increasing uptake. Ion Brand Design has worked with Metro Vancouver, Township of Langley, City of Coquitlam, University of British Columbia, City of Vancouver and Saskatoon, among others, to help their communities adapt to the new realities of reducing, reusing and recycling. Rod Roodenburg, partner at Ion, will show some of the cutting-edge work the firm has done to move the needle on waste management. He will share the process, strategy, and secrets of stakeholder engagement that generated these concepts. The metrics and visual presentation will provide inspiration and ammunition for improving the efficacy of waste management communications.
Mastering Change Through Insanity: A Future Predictor of Success - Jennifer Pereira, Fluent Motion Inc.
Organizations that will thrive in the future are agile and able to quickly adapt to an ever-changing environment - they are organizations that have honed their change management skills to a fine art. Organizations with a history of success in driving change build credibility with their employees, who know that when leadership comes to them with a change initiative they can be assured that it is not a "flavour of the month." Peter Drucker, management guru, once said that "the only way to predict the future is to create it". By tangibly understanding what you would like your future to look like, you can leverage your team’s innate skills and translate them into long-term growth. Learn to create sustainable growth through strategic partnerships, innovative thinking, and the mastery of "relational chemistry".
RCBC's Expanding Communication Services - Harvinder Aujula, Recycling Council of BC
The Recycling Council of BC (RCBC) has been communicating with the public since 1974. With changes in technology and how people are accessing and consuming information, the Council has had to adapt. By transitioning to a digital strategy, RCBC has developed resources in a variety of formats as well as for multiple platforms. Utilizing available metrics, RCBC has been able to better focus our communications strategy for optimum growth. As a non-profit organization on a budget with limited marketing resources, RCBC has had to be imaginative and resourceful in our production and delivery methods. See how the Council has adapted their communications plan to reach more British Columbians than ever before.
Session One: Illegal Dumping - Developing a Provincial Collaboration
Scott Kyle, Dillon Consulting
In recent years, Dillon has worked with several Canadian municipalities to develop strategies to address issues related to littering and illegal disposal of municipal solid waste. The formulation of approaches to address these challenges has been founded on local stakeholder engagement and international best practices research. Program components to be discussed as part of this presentation will include waste audits, targeted education campaigns, enforcement, and infrastructure.
Paul Henderson, Metro Vancouver and Harry Janda, City of Surrey
Paul Henderson from Metro Vancouver and Harry Janda from the City of Surrey will provide a joint presentation on illegal dumping issues and efforts in Metro Vancouver communities. Paul Henderson will provide an overview of the regional strategy, the context, and the variety of municipal actions applied to the issue. Harry Janda will present details on the innovations and impacts of Surrey's programs that provides alternatives to abandoning waste.
Panelist for Session Roundtable - Sgt. Dean Miller, BC Ministry of Environment Conservation Officer
Thursday, June 22
Session Two: Product Stewardship and the Circular Economy
Provincial-wide Zero Waste Strategy - Sue Maxwell, Resort Municipality of Whistler
In 2016, a group of elected officials convened at the Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) Convention and decided to develop a discussion paper outlining how British Columbia could help to support Zero Waste and the efforts of local governments. Hear about the process, the eight key recommendations, and the next steps.
Competition Model in EPR - Usman Valiante, Corporate Policy Group & Leeanne Fraser, MoE
Details forthcoming.
Circular or Just Going in Circles - Al Metauro, Cascades Recovery+
Switching to a circular economy will not be an easy transition – we need agreement on what “circular” means. Doing so will get us all on the same page and draw our attention to product and packaging design. The producer of the product or package controls its destiny in a circular economy, not the waste management industry, and the producer must do it through design – design that takes into account the environment, the use of natural resources, and at the end-of-life, recovery for reuse.
Canada’s Moving Towards a Circular Economy, and Business Must Prepare Now - Michael W. Zabaneh, Reclay StewardEdge
With #RCBC2017’s overarching goals of reducing waste and building a circular economy, this presentation will offer governments and businesses an overview of current circular economy trends, opportunities, risks, and best practices on a national and an international level. It will also examine public and private sector case studies that highlight the environmental and economic impacts of circular economy system adaptations.
Session Three: Circularity - Policies and Principles to Set the Stage for Circularity
Design in the Circular Economy - Elena Papakosta, Dell Inc.
The traditional linear economic model in which goods are made from raw materials, used, and then discarded at end-of-life is not the logic of the 21st century. As populations and resource pressures grow, forward-looking organizations are recognizing the need for a shift to a circular economy in which nothing is thrown “away” because waste is designed out and materials are reused. This presentation by Dell will look at what the circular economy is, provide two cases of how the company has applied circular thinking to its manufacturing process, and explore how technology can drive the circular ambitions of others.
Driving Improvements in Plastic Packaging’s Environmental Performance Through The Circular Economy & Sustainable Material Management - Joe Hruska, CPIA
Circular Economy (CE) and Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) are powerful concepts driving continuous improvement in the environment and economy to address the growing global pressures on resources due to growing populations and economies. It is critical that these approaches incorporate a lifecycle approach to product/packaging value chains to maximize system performance. This presentation will provide an overview of plastics recycling in Canada, CPIA’s signature Imagebank, define both CE & SMM approaches, and outline why they are complementary while pointing out their differences.
The Worth of a Grain of Sand - Peter Holgate, Ronin8 Technologies
Offering insights, practices, and stories, Peter J. Holgate will deliver a talk on the finite global supply of sand and the staggering impacts if faced with extinction. Peter relates this to the journey of the printed circuit board and explores how Ronin8 Technologies is unlocking the full value of what electronic waste as a multi-faceted resource, all the while inviting the audience to enter into a broader and more impactful paradigm of circularity and being consequential.
Session Four: Reuse Policies and Practices for Circularity
Reuse and Recycling Since 1908 - Tonny Colyn, Salvation Army
The Salvation Army Thrift Stores are in the business of recycling and salvage for resale. A large part of what they do is not only household item and textile diversion, but actual textile recycling. This presentation will look at the successes they have had in reducing large volumes of household items and textile waste from landfills through reuse.
Deconstruction Wood Recovery - Adam Corneil, Naturally Crafted Contracting
In this presentation, Adam Corneil will talk about how the resources once regularly sent to landfill from demolished homes are now transformed in to valuable resources that are being looped back in the circular economy through a combination of sustainable entrepreneurialism and local government bylaw incentives.
A Business Case for Remanufacturing - Vanessa Cone, EAB Tool Company Inc.
EAB Tool Company has created a business model using circular design principles that is able to keep power tool accessories out of landfills. Its green exchange system offers a large selection of long-lasting, high-performance power tool accessories for customers to buy, use, and return for credit towards new blades. The old blades are then brought back to the warehouse in Delta, BC for remanufacturing. Challenges include technical issues, logistics, and most challenging of all, the creation of incentives to win over a target audience that is often skeptical of “remanufactured” labels. EAB’s story demonstrates a real-world example of economic success while incorporating lifecycle considerations and remanufacturing processes into a business model from which other companies can draw insight from.
Session Five: Textiles Recovery and Diversion
Tackling Textile Waste at Home and Abroad - Amelia Eleiter & Wes Baker, Debrand Services Inc.
With potential changes to legislation and a rising social conscience, Debrand has been engaged with researchers, industry stakeholders, and government representatives to look more closely at current challenges and opportunities facing the textile industry. Debrand’s (not-so) famous textile waste duo of Amelia Eleiter and Wes Baker will look to share insights and provide updates on the work of groups such as the Leverage Lab, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, and Fashion Takes Action.
The City of Markham’s Innovative Textile Recycling Program - Claudia Marsales, City of Markham
For many reasons, governments have generally taken a hands-off approach towards textile recycling. Textiles are a poor fit for municipal blue box programs due to high costs and contamination, leaving collection exclusively to charities and for-profit companies. As a result, textile donation containers have become an urban problem with many cities seeking to ban them. Failure to address textile waste is a lost opportunity and is a consequence of inadequate consumer education, insufficient diversion data, and low end-market accountability. In 2012, Markham Council approved a new plan designed to increase diversion to 80%. One of the 10 actions was to create a program that provided expanded diversion opportunities for household textiles. Staff conducted focus groups testing with Markham residents to gauge interest in textile recycling. The results provided insight into how residents managed textile waste and valuable information into the design of Markham’s innovative textile recycling program.
Winter Jacket Re-purposing - Mary Forbes, The Potato House Project
Details forthcoming.
Friday, June 23
Session Six: Organics Diversion
Movie Screening: Just Eat It, The Food Waste Movie
Featuring interviews with TED lecturer, author, and activist Tristram Stuart along with acclaimed author Jonathan Bloom, Just Eat It looks at our systemic obsession with expiry dates, perfect produce and portion sizes, and reveals the core of this seemingly insignificant issue that is having devastating consequences around the globe. Just Eat It brings farmers, retailers, inspiring organizations, and consumers to the table in a cinematic story that is equal parts education and delicious entertainment.
Tamara Shulman, Tetra Tech Canada - Waste Composition: Sorting out Program Impacts
Between 2010 and 2015, British Columbia’s two most populous districts – Metro Vancouver and the Capital Regional District – implemented organic management strategies to include the phasing in of incentives and/or surcharges leading to a full organics disposal ban in 2015. In 2016, Tetra Tech worked with both districts to complete comprehensive waste composition studies to monitor their waste streams from various waste generating sectors and determine the changes that have occurred since 2010. These studies confirm that there has been significant progress in the reduction of organic waste in the garbage within these two districts, which represent 62% of BC’s population. This presentation will share the most recent waste composition data as well as detailed information about the quantities and types of material of interest such as avoidable food waste, textiles, and product stewardship items.
Session Seven: Communications, Messaging and Collaboration
Changing Behaviour by Delivering The Right Message - Rod Roodenburg, Ion Brand Design
Designing the right visual and written language to connect with your audience is critical to changing behaviour and increasing uptake. Ion Brand Design has worked with Metro Vancouver, Township of Langley, City of Coquitlam, University of British Columbia, City of Vancouver and Saskatoon, among others, to help their communities adapt to the new realities of reducing, reusing and recycling. Rod Roodenburg, partner at Ion, will show some of the cutting-edge work the firm has done to move the needle on waste management. He will share the process, strategy, and secrets of stakeholder engagement that generated these concepts. The metrics and visual presentation will provide inspiration and ammunition for improving the efficacy of waste management communications.
Mastering Change Through Insanity: A Future Predictor of Success - Jennifer Pereira, Fluent Motion Inc.
Organizations that will thrive in the future are agile and able to quickly adapt to an ever-changing environment - they are organizations that have honed their change management skills to a fine art. Organizations with a history of success in driving change build credibility with their employees, who know that when leadership comes to them with a change initiative they can be assured that it is not a "flavour of the month." Peter Drucker, management guru, once said that "the only way to predict the future is to create it". By tangibly understanding what you would like your future to look like, you can leverage your team’s innate skills and translate them into long-term growth. Learn to create sustainable growth through strategic partnerships, innovative thinking, and the mastery of "relational chemistry".
RCBC's Expanding Communication Services - Harvinder Aujula, Recycling Council of BC
The Recycling Council of BC (RCBC) has been communicating with the public since 1974. With changes in technology and how people are accessing and consuming information, the Council has had to adapt. By transitioning to a digital strategy, RCBC has developed resources in a variety of formats as well as for multiple platforms. Utilizing available metrics, RCBC has been able to better focus our communications strategy for optimum growth. As a non-profit organization on a budget with limited marketing resources, RCBC has had to be imaginative and resourceful in our production and delivery methods. See how the Council has adapted their communications plan to reach more British Columbians than ever before.
Speaker Bios are available HERE.
