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Funding Recycling Infrastructure via Disposal Surcharges
February 15, 2022
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. E.T.
via Zoom
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With the U.S. recycling level stagnating around 35 percent and 180 million tons of municipal waste per year flowing to trash incinerators and landfills, more investment is needed to increase waste prevention, reuse, and recycling capacity. One example of an effective funding mechanism has existed for decades in a number of states and some local jurisdictions. Surcharges on waste disposed at landfills and incinerators can raise significant revenue to support financial assistance programs for building local recycling programs and infrastructure.
At this webinar, you will learn:
- How state-level grantmaking can provide funding and support for business, nonprofit, local government, and community-led waste diversion and recycling initiatives
- What a waste disposal surcharge is and how it encourages circular economies
- How funding and support for waste diversion and recycling can effectively flow from the state level to local governments, businesses, nonprofits, and communities
- Examples of states, and some local governments, that have funded programs and infrastructure for recycling and other waste diversion activities using disposal surcharge revenue
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Lawrence Holley – Manager, Division of Waste Minimization and Planning, Bureau of Waste Management (Pennsylvania DEP)
Larry has been with the Department since 1988. His 32 years with the Department of the Environmental Protection (DEP), have been spent in various divisions of the waste program.
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Jennifer Semrau – Waste Reduction and Diversion Coordinator (Wisconsin DNR)
Jennifer Semrau has served as the Waste Reduction and Diversion Coordinator for the WI Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) since 2016. Jennifer serves on the Board of Directors for the Associated Recyclers of Wisconsin and the Product Stewardship Institute.
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Laurie Rasmus – Program Planner 3, Financial and Business Assistance Section of the Land Quality Bureau (Iowa DNR)
Laurie Rasmus is a Program Planner 3 in the Financial and Business Assistance section of the Land Quality Bureau in the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. For the past two years, Laurie has served as lead programmer for the Iowa Solid Waste Comprehensive Planning and Environmental Management System programs.
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Wendy Worley – Section Chief, Recycling and Materials Management Section (North Carolina DEQ)
Wendy Worley is the Manager of North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s (NC DEQ) Recycling and Materials Management Section. In this role, Wendy leads the state’s recycling section overseeing non-regulatory assistance programs for local governments and recycling businesses.
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Sophia Jones – Policy Fellow, Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Sophia Jones is a Policy Fellow with ILSR’s Composting for Community initiative, where she researches, analyzes and supports the building of US policy that advances local composting and waste reduction.
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Moderator: Brenda Platt – Director of the Composting for Community Initiative, Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Brenda Platt directs ILSR’s Composting for Community project, which is advancing local composting in order to create jobs, enhance soils, sequester carbon, reduce waste, and build healthy communities.
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This event is part of a series of webinars presented by the Recycling Is Infrastructure Too campaign. Learn more about the campaign and view past webinars here.
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