The GrassRoots Recycling Network (GRRN) and BioCycle launched COOL 2012 on April 13 with a 4-hour workshop in San Diego preceding the national BioCycle conference. COOL 2012 is a national initiative to inspire and educate state and local jurisdictions on the importance of getting Compostable Organics Out of Landfills by 2012! Download a PDF file of the conference brochure.

Click on the subheadings below to download conference presentations.

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Introduction To Zero Waste Communities

WHAT IS ZERO WASTE
How is Zero Waste different from recycling and integrated waste management?

ZERO WASTE COMMUNITIES 101
Four Keys to Zero Waste (ZW) Community Planning: New Rules & Economic Incentives; Extended & Local Producer Responsibility; ZW Purchasing; and ZW Infrastructure

UPSTREAM STRATEGIES
Government policies, programs, incentives for ZW and Local Producer Responsibility (This presentation contains data from the upcoming report, Stop Trashing the Climate. Presentation will be loaded when report is released.)

DOWNSTREAM INFRASTRUCTURE
What infrastructure is needed in a world without landfills and incinerators? How to pay for it?

Targeting Organics Through COOL 2012

WHAT IS COOL 2012
Returning compostable organics to our soils and our farms

TRUE VALUE OF A BANANA PEEL
How individual and community actions affect climate change

COOL SOLUTIONS — PANEL
Healthy Soils, Water Conservation and Carbon Credits; Alternatives to Landfills (and Incinerators); Creating Political Will for Zero Waste & Compostable Organics Out of the Landfill

CASE STUDY: STAYING COOL 2012 IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY
Changing the local planning rules to keep source separated organics out of landfills and return them to the farms

Workshop Instructors

• Sally Brown, University of Washington
• Linda Christopher, GRRN
• Brenda Platt, Institute for Local Self-Reliance
• Rick Anthony, Richard Anthony Associates
• Eric Lombardi, Eco-Cycle and GRRN
• Nora Goldstein, BioCycle
• Rich Flammer, Hidden Resources
• Wayne Williams, San Diego County