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• E-Waste Recycling Event | City of Plano (with UER)

  • When
    Sat, May 15, 2021
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    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM (CDT)
  • Location
    Christ United Methodist Church, 3101 Coit Rd, Plano, TX 75075

  
  

  City of Plano E-Waste Recycling Event
  with United Electronics Recycling

  May 15, 2021  9:00 am - 11:00 am
  Christ United Methodist Church
  3101 Coit Rd, Plano, TX  75075

  Bring your broken (or just old) electronics to the next City of Plano E-Waste Recycling Event — held with STAR Mission Partners United Electronics Recycling (UER)! They run an electronics recycling drop-off event with City of Plano three times a month (see schedule below).

  During the current health crisis, please follow these rules when you bring items to Electronics Recycling sites:
  

  • Stay in your vehicle.
  • 1 car at a time will be unloaded, so please wait in line patiently.

  
  

  Electronics Recycling Event Schedule

  Day	Location	Time
  First Saturday of every month	First United Methodist Church 3160 E Spring Creek Parkway Plano, TX 75074	9 am to noon
  Second Saturday of every month	St. Andrew United Methodist Church 5801 W Plano Parkway Plano, TX 75093 Located in back parking lot	9 to 11 am
  Third Saturday of every month (paper shredding also available)	Christ United Methodist Church 3101 Coit Road Plano, TX 75075	9 to 11 am

  
  

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• KAB Zero Waste Communities Webinar Series: Building Community Partnerships for a Zero-Waste Approach

  • When
    Thu, May 20, 2021
  •  
    1:00 PM (CDT)
  • Location
    online

  

  Building Community Partnerships for a Zero-Waste Approach

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  Thu, May 20, 2021 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT

  

  Within the framework of a city or town’s zero-waste initiative, businesses, community organizations, and governments at all levels have an important role to play. 

  In this webinar, we will be taking a deeper dive into key elements of what is enabling cities and towns to make measurable, meaningful improvements in reducing, recycling, and reusing including: 

  •  Key steps for building community support for a zero-waste initiative 
  •  Evidence-based solutions for changing individual behaviors 
  •  Meeting the challenges of environmental justice  

  Speakers:

  • Kanika Greenlee, Executive Director, Keep Atlanta Beautiful Commission 
  • Rachel Hering, Director, Keep Texas Recycling 
  • Danielle M. Robinson, PhD, Head of Corporate Responsibility, Diageo North America

  SERIES OVERVIEW

  This Keep America Beautiful webinar series will bring together businesses, consumers, corporations, elected officials, and more, as well as Keep America Beautiful representatives to explore what a transition to zero-waste communities can look like. The series will continue the conversation that began at the Keep America Beautiful annual Vision for America event in 2020, which explored the vision around re-defining communities and how that can look in a waste-free world.

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• STAR Business Council Planning Meeting

  • When
    Thu, May 20, 2021
  •  
    1:30 PM (CDT)
  • Location
    Zoom

  
  

  STAR Business Council Planning Meeting

  Thursday, May 20, 2021 | 1:30 PM Central Time

  
  

  The STAR Business Council invites you to join their bi-weekly meeting held during the current legislative session on the third Thursday of every month, 1:30–2:30 pm, via Zoom. Non-members are invited to attend.

  General Business Council meetings are held regularly on the first Thursday of every month, 10 am–11 am. 

  Members will receive an email invite with the call-in information and Zoom link to join via video conference. 

  Non-members of STAR, please email info@recyclingstar.org for information on how to join the call. 

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• CREF Webinar | Compost: Carbon Sequestration & Climate Change

  • When
    Wed, June 16, 2021
  •  
    1:00 PM (CDT)
  • Location
    online

  

  CREF WEBINAR - Compost: Carbon Sequestration & Climate Change
  

  Registration fee: $19 USCC Members/$29 Non-Members

  Register Here

  * Certification CEU Credits are available for attendees. Minimum 1 credit will be awarded for participants with up to 1.5 CEU's possible depending on the quality of discussion. Verification Form

  With all the buzz in the news about carbon sequestration, greenhouse gas emissions and soil health, it is imperative for compost operators, compost marketers, municipalities, and consultants to understand where composting and compost itself fit into climate change issues.  Composting can be a critical component in addressing global climate change.  

  This webinar will cover the carbon cycle as it relates to composting organic wastes, and the sequestration of carbon in soils when finished compost is applied back to the land.  The webinar will discuss factors that affect the ability of soils to sequester carbon from composts, as well as the effect of that sequestered carbon to promote soil health, and will discuss current methods for quantifying soil carbon, and its benefits in compost-amended soils.  We will cover some potential carbon debits, such as methane and nitrous oxide emissions, that may need to be controlled during composting to ensure the maximum benefit of composting to composters’ total carbon footprint.  Finally, the webinar will briefly discuss some of the existing models for estimating greenhouse gas debits and credits from the composting process and from compost use.

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• WasteExpo 2021

  • Start
    Mon, June 28, 2021
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    (CDT)
  • End
    Wed, June 30, 2021
  •  
    (CDT)
  • Location
    Las Vegas, NV

  

  

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  Most of us have never experienced a pandemic before — or its consequences.
  
  But now, it’s time to plan for 2021 when we can get back to business. And we are taking steps to ensure your safety.
  
  For more than 50 years, WasteExpo has provided the industry with comradery, opportunity, the newest products and technology, and the most comprehensive education program in the industry.
  
  So join us at the leading solid waste and recycling event in North America. Now in June. Still in Vegas.
  
  WE know it’s not business as usual. But, then again, it never has been.
  

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• Keep Texas Beautiful Annual Conference

  • Start
    Mon, June 28, 2021
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    (CDT)
  • End
    Thu, July 01, 2021
  •  
    (CDT)
  • Location
    online

  
  

  Texas 2021: Leading sustainable transformations in our communities

  Pre-conference sessions: June 28 • Conference: June 29-July 1

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  The virtual conference is an opportunity for community leaders across the state to come together to learn, educate and grow their networks and knowledge. KTB provides innovative keynotes, speakers, panels and sessions that tackle environmental topics like waste reduction, recycling education, and more.

  This year's conference will open with an afternoon of pre-Conference sessions followed by three days of conference programming and networking opportunities. Based on feedback, this year's Conference will take place in the afternoons of June 29-July 1. 

  
  

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• Resource Recycling Annual Conference

  • Start
    Wed, August 04, 2021
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    (CDT)
  • End
    Fri, August 06, 2021
  •  
    (CDT)
  • Location
    Austin, TX

  
  

  Resource Recycling Annual Conference

  Austin, TX | August 4 – 6, 2021

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  More information to come. Check their website for updates!

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• SERC Southeast Recycling Conference and Trade Show

  • Start
    Sun, August 08, 2021
  •  
    (CDT)
  • End
    Wed, August 11, 2021
  •  
    (CDT)
  • Location
    Orlando, FL

  
  

  Southeast Recycling Conference and Trade Show

  Orlando, fl | August 8 – 11, 2021

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