Educational & Informational Presentations

This is a great program for our youth (and ourselves!) to learn about what constitutes recyclable status and what doesn’t.

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The Recycling Program staff of the City of Fresno is pleased to offer the opportunity to schedule a presentation or participate in a community outreach event, located within the city of Fresno, for your students or members of your service organization. To make arrangements, please click here or call the Recycling Hotline at 621-1111. Click the image to the left to visit our “Grow up Green” website where you can see a short video of a recycling presentation.

Schools

Recycling presentations are available to pre-k, elementary, middle schools, high schools and colleges, within the City of Fresno. Interactive and entertaining presentations cover information on recycling, resource conservation, and protection of the environment. Students will learn about the importance of recycling programs available to them in Fresno. Our staff is happy to work with you to relate the information and materials covered in your curriculum.

Each presentation takes between 45 minutes to an hour or can be tailored to meet your needs. Handouts, videos and visual aides reinforce the information. There is no fee and all handouts are free.

The program is funded by the City of Fresno and various state grants and focuses on the following areas of recycling:

• Beverage Container Recycling
• Used Motor Oil and Oil Filter Recycling
• Household Hazardous Waste (HHW)

Community Service Organizations

Recycling Program staff are available to make presentations to community service organizations within the city of Fresno. Topics include recycling, resources conservation, and protection of the environment. To schedule a presentation, please click here or call the Recycling Hotline at 621-1111.

Community and School Events

As part of our goal to educate the residents of the City of Fresno about recycling and protecting our natural resources, Recycling Program staff are available to participate in events, within the city of Fresno, that promote environmental awareness. They are also available to attend community-wide school events such as science fairs, career days and Earth Day events located within the city of Fresno. For more information, or to schedule a presentation or event, please click here or call the Recycling Hotline at 621-1111.

Additional Resources and Supplemental Materials

Educational Packets – includes information on Solid Waste and Recycling services and opportunities throughout the City of Fresno.

“Closing the Loop” Curriculum (grades K – 6) – provides current and accurate waste management information. Enables students to get involved with hands-on action-oriented projects. (Available online at www.CalRecycle.gov).

“A Child’s Place in the Environment” Curriculum (grades 1 – 6) – provides teachers with an environmental education program that encourages students to become environmentally aware and active. (Available online at www.ACPE.Lake.K12.ca.us)

“Teens for Planet Earth” Website (grades 9 – 12) – provides teens and adults who work with with teens, resources to carry out environmental service-learning projects in their community. (Available online at: www.teens4planetearth.com)

For more recycling information and links to games, click here to go to our “Kid’s Pages“

To contact the City of Fresno Recycling Program, please click here or call 621-1111.

How Plastic Bags Are Made

 

With many cities and even states beginning to ban plastic bags, we were wondering how they were made and what makes them so impervious to decay (other than the obvious – plastic!)  Here is a short video from Discovery Science Channel that shows the making of plastic bags starting from the nurdles stage.

How Plastic Bags are made…a video.

Various kinds of plastic shopping bags. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

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Corporate Recycling & Waste Conference

September 10-12, 2012
Orlando, Fla

Photo by Aaron Eckels

The 2012 Corporate Recycling & Waste Conference will convene September 10-12, 2012 at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Orlando, Fla. The CRWC is a world-class business conference that focuses on how business executives can advance their organizations’ sustainability issues while controlling expenses and maximizing profits. Waste & Recycling News and Republic Services Inc. are co-organizers of the event.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Environmental executives from Fortune 1,000 firms
• Procurement managers
• Sustainability officers
• Business owners
• Policymakers
• Commodity managers
• Waste handlers
• Recyclers
• Equipment manufacturers
• Operations managers at recycling and waste facilities
• Regulators
• Packaging experts
• Attorneys
• Consultants
• Educators
• Advocates

2012 AGENDA

• MONDAY SEPT. 10

  9 a.m. – 12 p.m. Earn CEU’s from Penn State University (Optional) Recycling 150: Recycling Economics Recycling 311: Specifications & RFPs 10 a.m. – 5p.m. Exhibitor Set-Up & Registration Open 12 – 4 p.m. Lakeland MRF Tour with box lunch (Optional) 1 – 4 p.m. Earn CEU’s from Penn State University (Optional) Recycling 356: Recycling Economics II Recycling 330: Electronics Recovery 6 – 8 p.m. Rub Green Elbows at the Welcome Reception

  TUESDAY SEPT. 11

  7 – 8 a.m. Networking Breakfast 8:15 – 8:30 a.m. Welcome & Opening Remarks Lang Herndon, Conference Chair 8:30 – 9:30 a.m. Panel: Commercial Single-Stream Recycling: Best Practice, Risk Benefits Mel Maycole, Baptist Medical Center/Sodexo Health Care Alex Sorondo, SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment Mark Warren, Petco 9:30 – 10 a.m. Waste Audits: A Practical Example Todd Fitzgerald, Costco Wholesale 10 – 10:30 a.m. Working With Your Vendors: A Waste Diversion Case Study Colin McGinnis, Family Dollar Stores 10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Sponsored Break 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Exhibit Hall Open 12 – 1 p.m. Lunch 2:30 – 3 p.m. Electronics Recycling: Protecting Your Data & The Environment Katie Reilly, Electronic Recyclers International 3 – 3:30 p.m. Food Waste & Organics Justin Zeulner – Rose Quarter / Portland Trail Blazers 3:30 – 3:45 p.m. Sponsored Break 3:45 – 4:45 p.m. Panel: ABCs of Recycling & Commodity Management John Bradburn, General Motors Bill Moore, Moore & Associates Joseph Stearns Jr., FedEx Ground Mike Strickland, Collins Bus Corp 4:45 – 5 p.m. Wrap Up – Day 1 Lang Herndon, Conference Chair 6 – 8 p.m. Networking Reception in the Exhibit Hall

  WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 12

  7 – 8 a.m. Networking Breakfast 8:15 – 8:45 a.m. Green Corporate Citizen Awards Ceremony Brennan Lafferty, Waste & Recycling News 8:45 – 9:30 a.m. Keynote Speaker Jeff Littlejohn, Florida Department of Environmental Protection 9:30 – 10 a.m. Implementing Your Recycling Program: It Can Be Done! Marilee McInnis, Southwest Airlines 10 – 10:30 a.m. Safety: How To Engage Your Employees David Biderman, National Solid Wastes Management Association 10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Sponsored Break 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Exhibit Hall Open 12 – 1 p.m. Lunch 1 – 1:30 p.m. Closing Remarks – Announce Passport Winners Lang Herndon, Conference Chair Brennan Lafferty, Waste & Recycling News

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100 years of the garbage truck

The garbage truck. Durable, strong – sometimes loud – but always true. Much like the people that make up this industry, the trash truck has stood the test of time.

Join Waste & Recycling News as we celebrate the 100th anniversary of this mechanical marvel. “100 Years of the Garbage Truck” publishes Oct. 15, 2012. This coffee-table edition will journey from its start as a flatbed vehicle to the invention of the compactor to today’s automated sideloader.

We encourage you to submit your story idea or photo. You can also email them to editorial@wasterecyclingnews.com

Some of the stories include:

• THE HELPER –
  Hanging onto the back of a rear loader is what most people think of when they think of a garbage man. A look at the helper job and how it may be vanishing as more trucks are automated and semi-automated.
• UNDER THE HOOD –
  Veteran mechanics talk about the guts of trucks, how they’ve changed, how reliability has changed and what they do to keep this vehicles on the road.
• CNG –
  What’s the percentage of CNG trash trucks on the road today? What will it be in 25 years? What cities have the largest CNG trash truck fleets?
• DEALERS –
  Who are the largest trash truck dealers in the U.S.? What’s the secret to their success? What do their customers like and dislike about today’s trash trucks?
• SAFETY –
  A look at the safety innovations of the trash truck. What are the biggest dangers on the road?
• WOMEN ON THE TRUCK –
  Women on the trash truck are still a rarity, but they bring a different perspective and approach to the still-tough job. What’s it like to be a woman in a what is still essentially a man’s world?
• THE INNOVATORS –
  Interviews with the patent holders of trash trucks and the devices that made them what they are today.
• WEDDING –
  A trash truck route supervisor in Arizona loves garbage trucks so much that he got married on one.
• MUSEUM –
  Waste Pro plans to open a museum for trash trucks in 2013. A similar museum already exists in Germany.
• THE MANUFACTURERS –
  Profiles of today’s and yesterday’s truck makers.

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