TOUR

San Marcos Recycling, Compost, Reuse and Household Hazardous Waste (HHW)

Wednesday, November 1st
Attendee Limit: 42 
Cost: $25

This tour will visit three local San Marco sites: Green Guy Recycling, Bobcat Blend Composting, and the City of San Marcos' HHW and Reuse Warehouse. Tour will start at the Embassy Suites, with group carpool to site locations in vans (provided).

• GREEN GUY RECYCLING (GGR) is a San Marcos business with a 24/7 drop off for most household recyclables, including metals buy-back; and hard to recycle/dispose items, such as tires, TVs and freon appliances. GGR also has roll-off and demo services. 
• BOBCAT BLEND is a Texas State University campus composting program that is faculty managed, student-run and grant-supported for research and teaching-oriented waste management purposes. The organization's goals are to teach students, faculty and staff through daily operations and development of habits the environmental, economic, and intrinsic values of composting, in the cafeterias and the classrooms, labs, and landscapes on campus.
• SAN MARCOS RESOURCE RECOVERY: The City of San Marcos has instituted many programs to help divert material from the landfill over the past 10 years. After a quick presentation about their programs, there will be a tour of their HHW and Reuse Warehouse spaces.

TOUR

Texas Disposal Systems Facility

Friday, November 3rd
Attendee Limit: 40
Cost: $25

Texas Disposal Systems has been the official waste, recycling and green waste/compost service provider for the City of San Marcos since 2003. Their fully integrated facility has uniquely enabled San Marcos to increase the annual diversion of residential waste materials from the landfill from 6% in 2009 to approximately 30% over the last few years.

TDS processes more than 3,000 tons of solid waste daily, including trash, recycling and composting. Located just north of San Marcos, the TDS materials recovery facility (MRF) is more than 100,000 square feet in size and runs two sorting systems that processes 20 to 25 tons of material per hour, including glass, cardboard, paper, aluminum and plastic.

This tour offers an up-close look at the company's processing methodology and shows how the MRF fits into the wider 2,300-acre integrated waste-handling site operated by TDS. The tour also includes TDS' unique Exotic Wildlife Game Ranch, a facility that houses more than 115 species of animals as a living example of co-existence with a state-of-the-art, fully integrated landfill facility.

TRAINING

Basic Environmental Law Training Course

Wednesday, November 1; 9am–4:30pm
Limited class size | CEUs available
Cost: $40 (lunch included)

The Capital Area Regional Environmental Task Force (RETF) is proud to offer this training opportunity. Certified
instructors from various Texas agencies will provide insight and information about the growing problem of illegal
dumping and other environmental crimes. Subject areas include public nuisance, solid waste violations, illegal
dumping, illegal outdoor burning, and water pollution.

Continuing Education Credits (CEUs):
The course provides six (6) hours of TCOLE, Code Enforcement, or Sanitarian and four (4) hours of OSSF CEUs for all participants.

Cancellation Policy:
Registration may be canceled if our office receives a request within seven (7) business days before the class
begins. There will be a $10 administrative fee for processing the refund. You or your agency will be invoiced for
classes that you have registered for, even if you do not attend, or if you fail to cancel within 7 business days
prior to class start date.

For more information, contact Ken May at 512-916-6040 or kmay@capcog.org.

TRAINING

ISRI Hazard Recognition: Fire Safety & Prevention in Recycling Training

Friday, November 3; 9am-2:30pm
Attendee Limit: 50 participants 
Cost: Free (lunch included) | Registration required

Join ISRI’s safety team, on behalf of STAR, for this FREE four-hour course designed to assist employees, team leads, supervisors, plant managers, and senior leadership in understanding hazards associated with fires in recycling operations and materials recovery facilities.

Attendees will learn ways to potentially control these hazards to prevent significant fire losses. 

All levels of recycling company employees are encouraged to attend! 

This course will be co-taught by Ryan Nolte, ISRI’s Senior Director of Safety Outreach, and Kenn Kunze, Battalion Chief-Fort Wayne Fire Department.