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March 10 - Webinar on Pay-As-You-Go trash disposal

Announcing:

· a FREE Nationwide Pay-As-You-Go trash disposal webinar (March 10, 11-1:30PST), and

· Join the webinar, and Pass the Word! NEW topics / NEW info even for those that attended the last webinar!

Hear the best-known national expert on Pay-As-You-Go trash disposal and guest speakers discuss Pay-As-You-Go trash disposal, how it works, impacts, and hear A PANEL OF CITY EXPERTS talk about pros and cons and real-world experience with the key ways to implement PAYT:

· Ordinance - Susie Gordon, City of Fort Collins, CO

· Contract or contract-like (franchise, etc.) - Doug Short, City of Lafayette, CO

· Municipal - Bruce Philbrick, City of Loveland, CO

· Hauler perspective - Gary Horton, Western Disposal, Boulder, CO

Pay-As-You-Go trash disposal is not just practical in the landfill-costly East coast or in the "green" West, but in all kinds of areas, even the desert / mountain west. There are Pay-As-You-Go trash disposal lessons for urban, suburban, rural, and remote areas with all types of collection systems. Learn about can, bag, sticker, and other options; the pros and cons of Pay-As-You-Go trash disposal; and the power of the Pay-As-You-Go trash disposal incentive. We have built in time for interactive questions and follow-up opportunities as well.

The Econservation Institute is providing FREE assistance through NATIONWIDE webinars, and through workshops and “hands-on” consulting to communities in EPA Region 9. If your community is interested in finding out about new options for recycling and diversion including Pay-As-You-Go trash disposal and how they can help you reduce costs, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase jobs, and help citizens recycle, then this program is for you! Our last webinar in this series had registrants from across the US and Canada , Mexico , Bahrain , Croatia , and elsewhere in the EU!

The webinar is being presented by Dr. Lisa Skumatz, and guest speakers.

Register NOW for the webinar at http://www.paytnow.org/presentations.html

… After registering you will be notified about instructions for the webinar and you'll get a follow-up email by March 8th for reply to get fully-registered on "gotowebinar".

Also register and/or check back on the website for upcoming program activities… AND vote on the "special topic" for the next webinar (in about 2 months)!


Lisa A. Skumatz, Ph.D.
The Econservation Institute
toll-free: 1-866-758-6289
(303)494-1178
skumatz@econservationinstitute.org;

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: recycling coordinators, local elected officials and state legislators and staff, public works / sustainability / community staff, non-profits, citizen organizers.

If you can’t listen to the whole webinar, sign up and feel free to listen to just part!! And please pass this along to others that might be interested…

PRESENTERS: Lisa Skumatz, Ph.D., and guest speakers

The work for this project was funded in part by a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 - No. X1-00T11610-0. The File Copy was Printed on 100% Postconsumer Recycled Paper - Process Chlorine Free"

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