As we gear up for a return to school, we wanted to share this guest post written by student & environment-advocate, Gabe Vargas. ***** “It’s no secret that cars are an important tool in our modern society. They take us to work, home, and school. They let us go where we want to go, whenever we want. However, they also take a huge toll on our planet. In order to lessen the burden for Mother Nature, the ideal choice is to get rid of our personal…
“Taking Venue Recycling & Waste Reduction to the Next Level” Original air date: June 24th, 2021 at 2:00pm EDT Description: As recycling and zero waste become a greater priority for venues, many are discovering how complex it is to implement effective programs. From addressing challenges like contamination to recovering food waste and greening concession food packaging, venue managers can learn from the experiences of other facilities that have traveled this path. This webinar features brief case study presentations followed by a panel discussion from a…
Webinar: How Data Analytics is Transforming Waste Collections and Recovery Original air date: May 26, 2021 at 12:00pm EDT Description: Even as data analytics have transformed fields as diverse as policing and energy management, the waste and recycling industry has been slow to follow suit. The challenges to tracking and using accurate data contribute to systematic inefficiencies, difficulties benchmarking performance and a lack of transparency around costs. This situation has started to change in the last decade as new technologies have begun shedding light on…
A significant part of my job managing RecycleMania involved irritating people. Over the twelve years I was involved with the higher ed competition (now Campus Race to Zero Waste), an intern and I would spend hours each week scrolling through the trash and recycling weights submitted by participating schools looking for anomalies. We’d email or call dozens of recycling coordinators to question how they were coming up with their numbers. While many used actual weights, most relied on volume-to-weight formulas for some or all of…
