Bringing About a Titanic Shift

In the 1990s with the Recycling Council of BC and during her active "retirement" as an astute observer, commentator and Zero Waste Citizen activist, Helen Spiegelman has earned a reputation as an outside-the-box thinker on waste management tissues. She asks tough questions and then sets out to find answers and practical solutions. Helen was considered instrumental in the shift to Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) in BC and hers is respected voice, in her home province and beyond, as BC continues to be the testing ground for effective EPR implementation across North America.

Sponsored by UDRS and SSTC

3:30 What’s the Scuttlebutt? Stewardship Update

• BC: Drowning in Stewardship Programs (1.4 Mb0 — Brock MacDonald, Recycling Council of BC
• Manitoba’s New Stewardship Programs (1.6 Mb) — Jim Ferguson, Green Manitoba
• Getting Ready to Launch (MMRP) (1.1 Mb) — Shelly Nicolle-Phillips, Ministry of Environment

Sponsored by Ecotainer Sales

7:30 Hon. Dustin Duncan, Minister of Environment

7:45 2011 Saskatchewan Waste Minimization Awards

Sponsored by SaskPower

8:00 Rearranging the Deck Chairs: Entertainment

Join Captain Edward John Smith (aka Wayne MacDonald, U of A) as he describes the events on that fateful night 100 years ago when the unthinkable happened to the unsinkable. Wayne was a long-time friend of one of Titanic's survivors, and has collected memorabilia for 58 years, and has some fascinating stories to tell of this terrible disaster. Find out from your boarding pass whether you'll survive the night!

Sponsored by SARRC

Friday, April 20

8:30 Iceberg, Dead Ahead!: Household Hazardous Waste

• How to set up an HHW Collection Day (1.6 Mb) — Craig McLean, Envirotec Services
• Best in the Province: Saskatoon’s HHW program (0.5 Mb) —  Kelly Goyer, City of Saskatoon Environmental Services
• HHW Stewardship in BC and elsewhere (0.5 Mb) — Mannie Cheung, Product Care

Sponsored by Envirotec Services

10:30 Concurrent Session:  Using the Flotsam and Jetsam — Are Waste Exchanges a Solution for ICI?

• ResourceFULL Use: Sustainable Eco-Industry (0.7 Mb) (by video) — Debra Taevs, Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center & Dorothy Atwood, Zero Waste Alliance

  Re-think your 'grandma's' idea of a waste exchange.  Learn how you can implement an energizing network of organizations around resource and idea swapping.

  Whether you have 'stuff' or 'ideas', you will enjoy participating in this high energy interactive session.  To get the most out of the session, be prepared with business cards and a list of by-products that you’d like to find a productive home for, as well as materials you could use or just your creative hat on.  You will leave with your creative juices flowing, new techniques, and possibly even budding  partnerships.

• RCBC’s Waste Materials Exchange (1.8 Mb) — Brock McDonald, RCBC

Sponsored by SWANA Northern Lights Chapter

10:30 Concurrent Session: Between the Devil and Deep Blue Sea — Agricultural Plastics

• Update on Grain Bag and Twine Collection Pilot Program (1 Mb) — Tamara Weir-Shields, PCAB
• Developments in Agricultural Plastics Recycling in SK and across Canada (6.9 Mb) — Barry Friesen, CleanFARMS

Sponsored by Recycle Systems

Luncheon Speaker:  Unsinkable - Expanding into all the Rs at the Regina Re-Store (3 Mb) — Gary Kendall, Habitat for Humanity Regina

Sponsored by Chenington Equipment and Canadian Plastics Industry Association

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