Resource Management and Solid Waste Contracting
WasteCap Nebraska Summer Lecture Series (Webcast 3)
August 8, 2007. 1:00pm
Speakers:
Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
Chemical Strategies Partnership
Minnesota's Dakota County Environmental Management
Come learn how to get the most from your waste and recycling contracts by creating performance based contracts that tie financial incentives to measurable goals. "Resource Management" contracting has been tested and implemented in a variety of settings over the last 8 years. It is an innovative waste management contract model that is transforming the waste management industry by changing how waste-related companies define the value of their services and the way they generate profit.
- Learn about Resource Management contracts and how this knowledge-based business model can benefit waste generators and add value to waste management and recycling companies through diversification and market growth.
- Hear about the Resource Management projects currently underway in Minnesota and Massachusetts. Examples will include industrial, commercial and governmental settings and its potential in municipal/residential settings.
- Learn how you can implement a Resource Management program for your organization.
Register for this Webcast
With the generous support of NDEQ, WasteCap is able to offer these webcasts at reduced rates. Registration fees for the webcasts are as follows:
WasteCap members: $69 each webcast or $249 for all four webcasts
Non-Members: $89 each webcast or $319 for all four webcasts
Download the registration form here (PDF)
For any questions, please contact WasteCap at (402) 436-2383 or 888-EWASTE9.
Speaker Biographies
Our line-up of speakers include
- Peggy Harlow with the Massachusetts Dept. of Environmental Protection’s Commercial Waste Reduction Program
- Renee Burman, an Environmental Policy Coordinator with Minnesota's Dakota
County Environmental Management - Tom Votta, Deputy Director for the Chemical Strategies Partnership (CSP).
Peggy Harlow is the Branch Chief for Commercial Waste Reduction at the MassDEP. Her branch develops and implements programs and policies related to the MA Solid Waste Master Plan’s waste reduction and recycling goals for businesses, institutions and industry in Massachusetts. Ms. Harlow has over 17 years experience in public sector environmental planning, including positions with both the State of Connecticut, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Renee Burman is an Environmental Policy Coordinator with Minnesota’s Dakota County Environmental Management. For the past 6 years her primary responsibilities include waste abatement policy and developing programs that promote sustainable local government actions for a variety of internal departments and also schools, municipalities and townships in the county. Continued development of sustainability awareness programs in government operations has resulted in inclusion of green meeting protocols, green cleaning contacts, food waste collection for composting projects, and other environmentally preferable procurement, services and contracts.
Tom Votta has over 15 years of experience in program development, operations and supply chain management. He co-founded an organization whose mission is to reduce the use and release of toxic chemicals in manufacturing. He currently serves as the Deputy Director for that program, the Chemical Strategies Partnership (CSP). He has worked extensively with clients to strategically assess their manufacturing operations to improve environmental and chemical management, reduce the use of hazardous materials, and reduce costs. Mr. Votta has initiated research related to the transition from product to service-based economy in the U.S. He has also led efforts in developing and testing a performance-based contracting model - Resource Management (RM) - for “resource efficient” solid waste management. He has evaluated this contracting model in over two dozen private and municipal settings and has provided direct contracting assistance in 6 organizations in the healthcare, defense, and educational sectors.
Mr Votta has published and spoken widely on sustainable supply chain management, industrial ecology, corporate environmental strategies and pollution prevention economics. Mr. Votta has a B.S. in Civil/Environmental Engineering from the University of Vermont and an M.S. in Environmental Management and Policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a licensed professional environmental engineer in the State of Vermont. Mr. Votta has held positions at the Tellus Institute in Boston MA, Resources for the Future in Washington, DC, and Metcalf and Eddy Engineers, in Wakefield MA.