This year's Summit is returning to Point Clear, Alabama and is being cosponsored by the Southeast Recycling Development Council, the Alabama Recycling Coalition, and the Mississippi Recycling Coalition. Registration opened in June and earlybird registration deadline is October 1, 2010. Remember to sign up as an MRC member to recieve a discount on the registration fee! Click here to register now.

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The Curbside Value Partnership (CVP) is offering a free webinar on planning and executing local recycling programs. This free webinar will be held at 3 p.m. July 21, 2010. The online seminar will examine a recent CVP recycling partnership launched in Hillsborough County, FL. Topics to be discussed include campaign overview, planning, action plans, residential rollout strategies and campaign assessment as well as ideas to build and maintain momentum throughout the campaign.

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The Southeast Recycling Development Council (SERDC), the Alcoa Recycling Company (Alcoa), the Mississippi Recycling Coalition (MRC) and the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) are partnering to offer a Recycling Bin Grant Program in Mississippi. This partnership program will provide an opportunity for a grant of free recycling bins for schools, colleges and universities and public and non-profit office buildings. Click here for more information.

The National Recycling Coalition (NRC) has announced that they are accepting nominations for board members. All 15 seats on the board are available for nomination. To be nominated, one must be a full NRC member in good standing for at least a year and must be 18 years of age or older. For more information, please visit their website or email Susan Kattchee at skattchee@gmail.com. Deadline for nominations is August 2, 2010 and elections will take place on October 25, 2010, at an NRC members meeting during the Resource Recycling Conference in San Antonio, TX.

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Resource Recycling will undertake the largest survey of local government recycling managers this summer. They will ask these officials key questions regarding program successes and failures; barriers and opportunities to program growth; what they want from others, such as industry and the federal government; plus, they’ll seek their views on recycling’s future. Also they going to seek demographic information, including salary levels, to better portray who exactly are these key officials. While they have nearly 7,000 coordinators in their e-mail database, they want to make sure their information is up-to-date. To make sure you’re included, if you are a local government recycling official, or to make sure they have contact details for the recycling coordinator in your community, send an e-mail to info@resource-recycling.com with the appropriate details.

Everyone talks about dual- and single-stream materials recovery facilities (MRFs) as being an integral part of nearly all sizable recycling programs targeting residential fiber, metals and plastics. But, we really do not know much about how such plants are faring in today’s market. Resource Recycling will be issuing a survey to the managers of all dual- and single-stream MRFs throughout North America. They already have more than 600 managers targeted, but want to insure they’re surveying all of them. Are you a MRF manager or do you know the manager of the dual- or single-stream plant in your area? If so, send the appropriate contact information to info@resource-recycling.com.

The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) has announced that they will be holding a public hearing regarding the adoption of the proposed "Recycling Cooperative Grant Regulations" (SW-10) on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at 6:00 PM in the Commission Hearing Room in the MDEQ offices at 515 East Amite Street, Jackson, MS. Additionally, written comments will be accepted and included in the public record if received before 5:00 PM, July 13, 2010. These proposed regulations will be to implement the recycling cooperative grants authorized by Mississippi Code Annotated Section 17-17-63(3)(c) which was approved by the Mississippi Legislature in 2009. These grants are expected to expire in 2014.

The Econservation Institute is providing another FREE webinar on Pay-as-You-Throw (PAYT) similar to one mentioned earlier. This webinar will be on Thursday, July 15, 2010, from 12:00-2:30PM CDT. For more information, see this website.

The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality has recently announced a funding opportunity through the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) which was funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). A total of $600,000 has been allocated from the EECBG by the Mississippi Development Authority (MDA) and administered by MDEQ. For more information on these funding opportunities, please see the MDEQ Solid Waste webpage.

The National Recycling Coalition (NRC) has launched a monthly series of webinars on recycling and materials management. The next webinar in the series is entitled, "What is the Role of Recycling in an Era of Extended Producer Responsibility?" which will be held on Thursday, April 15, 2010, from 12:00-1:00 PM CDT. This is a free webinar; however, you must register to participate. To register go to https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/847911424. Click "Read More" below for more information on this webinar. Note, this webinar is at the same time as EPA's RCC Webinar on Rural Recycling (See below).

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