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).

Speaking on the subject will be Sara Hartwell, a Senior Policy Advisor to the US EPA, Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery. Sara is a highly respected analytical chemist focused on materials management issues. She manages EPA’s Waste Reduction Model (WARM), a life-cycle perspective tool for estimating the energy conservation and greenhouse gas emissions reduction benefits of five alternative materials management scenarios. She developed a derivative tool, the individual Waste Reduction Model (iWARM), a consumer-aimed life-cycle perspective tool for estimating the energy conservation benefits of recycling over landfilling for individual products. Sara is on the Executive Committee of the Sustainable Packaging Coalition, and the Steering Committee for Wal-Mart’s Packaging Sustainable Value network. Currently, much of her work is focused on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) discussions with State governments and producers of consumer packaged goods.