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 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 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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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently announced the 2010 Resource Conservation Challenge (RCC) Web Academy schedule. This year, EPA has partnered with the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) to be able to offer continuing education units (CEUs) for SWANA members. In 2009, over 2,400 people participated in the RCC Web Academy.

The next web academy presentation, entitled "Rural Recycling - Bridging the Gaps in all the Right Places" is scheduled for Thursday, April 15, 2010 from 12:00-1:30 PM CDT. For more information and register (at no cost), go to the RCC Web Academy website.

The Econservation Institute is providing a FREE webinar on Wednesday, March 10, 2010, from 1:00 - 3:30 PM CST. Some of the panelist will include Lisa Skumatz, Econservation Institute;Susie Gordon, City of Fort Collins, CO; Doug Short, City of Lafayette, CO; Bruce Philbrick, City of Loveland, CO; and Gary Horton, Western Disposal. At a similar webinar in December 2009, there were participants from across the United States, Canada, Mexico, Bahrain, Croatia, and more. If you participated in the previous webinar, there will be new information and topics discussed in this webinar. Registration is required! To register, go to http://www.paytnow.org/presentations.html.

The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR) will be hosting a webinar entitled "Managing Degradable Plastics" as part of their ongoing "Into the Bin and Back Again" outreach series. This session will identify many new types of plastic but will focus on the impact of oxo-degradable plastic on recycling. Panelists will overview provide information and resources for recycling coordinators as they collect, sort, and potential market this material. Speakers will include Dave Cornell, APR and Mike Schedler, NAPCOR. The webinar will be Thursday, February 25, 2010, starting at 1:00PM CST and last approximately an hour. There is no fee for this webinar; however, you need to register at https://plasticsrecycling.webex.com.

The Association of Postconsumer Plastics Recyclers (APR) is sponsoring a webinar entitled "Recycling & the Economy" at 1:00 PM CST on February 4, 2010. This session will discuss the history of recycling in the US and how companies have grown to look to recycled feedstock as a source of good material. This session will include adoptable tips from two states that are using that information to help boost recycling through legislation and economic development and will wrap up with tools and resources to help you do the same. The speakers for this webinar include Jerry Powell (Resource Recycling), Wayne Gjerda (Minnessota Pollution Control), Scott Mouw (North Carolina Division of Pollution Control), Kent Foerster (Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery for the US EPA), Keefe Harrison (APR), and Steve Alexander (APR). For more information and to register, please visit https://plasticsrecycling.webex.com. There is no fee associated with this webinar.

Econservation Institute (EI) is providing FREE workshops, webinars, and consulting assistance to communities in Region 9 to help them implement pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) collection systems. The work for this project is funded in part by a grant from US Environmental Protection Agency Region 9. Part of this initiative is to provide a FREE national webinar on DECEMBER 9, 2009. Visit http://www.paytnow.org to register for this webinar.

The next webinar in the U.S. EPA' RCC Web Academy Webinar series is School Chemical Cleanout to be held on October 15, 2009. There is no charge for this webinar, but registration is required. For more information, please see http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/rcc/web-academy/index.htm.

Energy and Climate Change: Plastics Recycling's Impact on Domestic Concerns, the next webinar in the Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers 2009 workshop series "Into the Bin and Back Again," will be held on September 17, 2009. Click here for more information and to register.