FILA 5K @ WasteExpo

FILA is presenting the inaugural FILA 5K Fun Run/Walk. Come out the morning of Wednesday, May 22, to participate. Proceeds from the FILA 5K Fun Run/Walk will help the Alliance establish its own charitable, goodwill program to serve association member company employees, and their families, when they experience exceptional hardships.

6:30 AM for event registration, 7:30 AM for race start (rain or shine)

For more information and to register for event, fill out this form.

Empowering Organics: Harvest Power's Perspective

A webinar was presented on Tuesday, December 4, by EIA's FILA for NSWMA and WASTEC members. The session included Q&A.

The recording of the 59-minute session may be downloaded (MPEG 3 file [7.1 Mb, audio only], MPEG 4 file [498 Mb, audio/video]). Other related resources include: presentation (PDF file [3.3 Mb]).

SUBJECT: Organics diversion and anaerobic digestion (AD) have gained recent attention as businesses, cities, and states pursue aggressive sustainability agendas.  Private waste generators are demanding “organics recycling” while state and local policymakers promote renewable energy production from AD.  This changing landscape has already begun transforming the solid waste logistics and processing business. The speakers addressed topics such as:

• The role of anaerobic digestion in sustainable management of organics
• How haulers are dealing with SSO (source separated organics)  today – pros, cons and problems to be solved
• On-site digestion: opportunity or threat to the hauler?
• Emerging policy trends

PRESENTORS: Paul Sellew, Wayne Davis, and Chris Balfe of Harvest Power sketched out the evolving organics landscape. Harvest is a leader in the organics processing industry today.  In addition to being one of the largest processors of organics in North America, Harvest is currently completing construction of two anaerobic digestion facilities in Canada, and has begun construction of a third in Florida.

Product Stewardship: Theory & Facts...Will It Increase Recycling?

A webinar was presented on Wednesday, March 14 by EIA's FILA for NSWMA and WASTEC members. The session included almost 30 minutes for Q&A.

The recording of the 83-minute session may be downloaded (MPEG 3 file [10 Mb, audio only], MPEG 4 file [39 Mb, audio/video]). Other related resources include: Scott Cassel's presentation (PDF file [3.3 Mb]), Chaz Miller's presentation (PDF file [168 Kb]), EIA's Product Stewardship Policy (PDF file [77 Kb]), and PSI's EPR Principles paper (PDF file [282 Kb]).

SUBJECT: Product stewardship – the idea that manufacturers should be “responsible” for the end-of-life management of their products – aims to increase recycling while also establishing a new way to fund recycling programs. Thirty-two states currently have product stewardship laws, most of which cover mercury-containing and electronics products. 

PRESENTORS: In this program, Chaz Miller of NSWMA and Scott Cassel of the Product Stewardship Institute discussed the results of current laws and their impact on the recycling industry.