Archived Municipal Recycling Coordinators
E-News and Webinars

Past webinars/workshops

2020

• How to Collect Food Scraps for Composting and/or Anaerobic Digestion
  March 16, 2020
  Speakers:       Caren Harder, CT DEEP
  Chris Field, WeCare Denali (formerly Harvest New England) 
  Scott Gustafson, Professional Sports Catering John Ferguson, Quantum BioPower Sherill Baldwin, CT DEEP

• Changes to CT’s Organics Law: Are You in Compliance?
  February 24, 2020
  Speakers:       Caren Harder, CT DEEP 
  Sergio Squatrito, Carla's Pasta 
  Coryanne Mansell, Center for EcoTechnology (CET) 
  Sherill Baldwin, CT DEEP
  
  

• Preventing/Reducing Food Waste and Recovery Food for People
   January 27, 2020
  Speakers:      Sherill Baldwin, CT DEEP
  Max Mlinar, Phood, Inc.
  Lori Martin, Haven’s Harvest
  Michelle McCabe, FEED, The Council of Churches for Greater Bridgeport  

 2019

• Setting Up A Recycling Program at Your School
  December 16, 2019
  Speakers: Sherill Baldwin, CT DEEP
                   Dan Collelouri, City of Stamford

                   C.J. May, City of Waterbury

• How to Avoid PFAS in Food Service Ware
  August 28, 2019
  Speakers:   Sherill Baldwin, CT DEEP
                    Sue Chiang, Center for Environmental Health
                    Julie DesChamps, Greenwich Public Schools
  
  
• What’s Working, What’s Not: Recycling Education, Promotion and Enforcement
  July 23, 2019
  Speakers: Sherill Baldwin, CT DEEP
                   Mitch Goldblatt, Orange
                   Brian Bartram, Sharon/Salisbury
                   Alyson Finnegan, Essex
                   Howard Weissberg, Meriden

• Reducing our plastic footprint: Experiences from the EU
  April 25, 2019
  Speakers:  Katie Dykes, CT DEEP Commissioner
                  Andrew Fish, Executive Director, CT River Conservancy
                  Giuliana Torta, European Union Delegation to the U.S., Washington DC
  Reducing our plastic footprint (PDF)

2018

2017

• Connecticut’s New Universal List: What’s IN, What’s OUT
  October 23, 2017
  Speaker:  Sherill Baldwin, CT DEEP
• CT WRAP: Trex Challenge, a school recycling project
  September 25, 2017Facilitator: Sherill Baldwin, CT DEEP
  Speakers:  Stephanie Hicks, Trex
                 Jennifer Heaton-Jones, Housatonic Resources Recovery Authority
                 Cathy Praissman, Team Leader
• RecycleCT: What’s IN, What’s OUT for haulers and collectors
  July 12, 2017 
  Speakers:  Sherill Baldwin, CT DEEP
• RecycleCT: What’s IN, What’s OUT for municipalities
  June 20, 2017
  Speakers:  Sherill Baldwin, CT DEEP
• Statewide Recycling Marketing Campaign – Muni Info Session
  February 28, 2017
  Speakers:  Sherill Baldwin, CT DEEP
• Municipal Public Space Recycling
  February 15, 2017
  Speakers:  Jennifer Weymouth, CT DEEP

Archived E-Newsletters

2020

• April 2020 - Trash and Recycling are Essential Services, Suspension of Plastic Bag Fee, Upcoming webinars, cancellations, WIWO: Wipes and Gloves in the Trash.
• March 2020 - COVID-19, NERC's updated MRF Blended Value Report, Upcoming webinars, cancellations. WIWO: Shredded paper.

• February 2020 - SMART Grant RFP, Regional Recycling Markets reports, Organics Recycling Webinars. WIWO: Can I Recycle Number 5’s?

• January 2020 - CT Organics Law Update, Organics Recycling Webinars and Tool Kits, EPR Fact Sheet. WIWO: Frozen Food Packaging   
  
   

2019

• November 2019 - Recycling Markets in the Northeast, TRPs Bridge to Circularity report,  MORE School Recycling Resources. WIWO: Explosives, Syringes/Sharps and Knives are OUT
  
  
• October 2019  - RecycleCT School Grant RFP, School Recycling Resources, School Recycling Workshop, PFAS Draft Action Plan. WIWO: Spiral Wound Containers
  
  
• September 2019 - Annual Municipal Recycling Reporting, What is product stewardship? Stewardship Initiatives in CT, Sherill Interviews Tom about EPR, GreenerGovCT. WIWO: Vaping paraphernalia is OUT

• August 2019 - PFAS in Our Environment, PFAS in Compost, PFAS Resources, Annual Municipal Recycling Reporting, Single-Use Plastic Check-Out Bag Fee. WIWO: Batteries
  
  
• July 2019 - Municipal Measurement Program, Update on Single-Use Plastic Bags, Compostable Bag Shopping Bag Trial, Resources: What Can We Do As Consumers About Climate Change, School Food Scraps and Waste Food, CT Green LEAF Schools, EPR for Household Hazardous Waste report (VT). WIWO Q&A: Padded Envelopes, Bubble Mailers 
  
  
• June 2019 - Renewing Your Waste Disposal Contract, Contract Resources, Resources from RecycleCT Grant Recipients. WIWO Q&A: Nursery Pots
   
• May 2019 - Markets, Waste Reduction Letter, TRP Cart Grant, New Glass Foundation. WIWO Q&A: Resin Identification Code, Children
  
  
• April 2019 - Community Composting, WIWO Q&A: Take Out Containers
  
  
• March 2019 – Promoting SMART webinar and Giuliana Torta visit. WIWO Q&A: Miniature Liquor aka Nips, Single-Use Coffee Pods
  
  
• February 2019  - Class schedule for 2019 Certification and Training for Solid Waste Facility Operators, Updated Outreach Materials for Haulers & their Customers, Archived E-News and Webinars, REI Issues Order with Penalty for Recycling Violations, WIWO Q&A: Renewliners, Wood Pellet Bags
• January 2019 - Municipal CMMS Compliance update, Waste Reduction, WIWO Q&A: Spiral Wound Containers, Wrapping Paper

2018

• December 2018 - Education and Outreach Resources and Tool kits, WIWO Q&A: Bubble Mailers, Bubble Padded Envelopes, when manufacturer states “approved blue recycle bags”
• November 2018 - Contracting, RecycleCT School Grant RFP, Trex School Plastic Film Recycling Challenge, What’s IN, What’s OUT receives NERC award.  WIWO Q&A: Nursery pots, plastic packaging clam shells and wood pellet bags
• October 2018 -CT Glass Collection Pilot Overview.  WIWO Q&A: Plastic can carriers, baby wipe containers
• September 2018 - FY 2018 Annual Municipal Recycling Report, CT WRAP Campaign Shows Increase in Awareness, What’s IN, What’s OUT campaign wins several awards. WIWO Q&A: Sodastream bottles, pool solar covers
• July/August 2018 - How to Reduce Contamination, Recycling Contamination, How to Embed RecycleCT Wizard Web Widget. WIWO Q&A: aerosol cans, straws
• June 2018 - Programs and Approaches that Respond to the Waste Crisis, Are You Paying a Tip Fee for Recyclables? WIWO Q&A: tennis ball containers, food insulation packaging, mylar balloons
• May 2018 - CT is Facing a Waste Crisis, Waste reduction is solution to help balance municipal budgets
• April 2018 - Renewing Your Waste Disposal Contract? NEW: Waste Food Resources, Closed Loop Fund
• March 2018 - Are You in Compliance? RecycleCT Innovation Grant RFP, Municipal Solid Waste Ordinances, Promotional Resources, Preventing and Detecting PCB Contamination in Used Oil
• February 2018 - Promotional Resources, Be SMART About Your Trash follow-up, Tools to help you Promote Carton Recycling
• January 2018 -  CT DEEP’s Recycling Enforcement Initiative, Key Recycling Laws, Interested in SMART Technical Assistance?

2017

• December 2017 -Task Force to Study Methods for Reducing Consumer Packaging that Generates Solid Waste, School Recycling Grant Programs & Contests, Update: DEEP Recycling Incentive Grants Program
• August 2017 - Is Your Town in Compliance with Recycling Laws? WRAP Kick-Off in East Hartford
• June 2017 - What’s IN, What’s OUT, New RecycleCT website seeks to make recycling easier for residents, Resources for Municipalities, CT WRAP: Plastic Bag & Film Recycling Initiative, RecycleCT Foundation awards over $10,000 in grants to fund school recycling projects, New Roadmap to WRAP Guide Available to Support Community Outreach
• April 2017 - CT WRAP Plastic Film Recycling Initiative, Are you in compliance with Comprehensive Materials Management Strategy?, WRAP Artwork Downloads, Posters, Signs and More, Special Events Recycling Bin Lending Program, Municipal and Regional Grants & Technical Assistance Program 
  
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  Content Last Updated April 7, 2020