Associations sponsor free webinar on residential recycling contamination

The Northeast Recycling Council (NERC), Brattleboro, Vermont, and the Northeast Waste Management Officials’ Association (NEWMOA), Boston, have announced they are co-sponsoring a free webinar Feb. 22, 2018, focused on contamination in residential recycling and how to avoid it.

The webinar, How to Beat Residential Recycling Contamination, is from 2-3:30 p.m. EST and will feature presentations by The Recycling Partnership, Falls Church, Virginia, including:

• Its recent study on the economic impact of contamination in the recycling stream by Dylan de Thomas;
• The Recycling IQ Toolkit and how it can help you by Jason Hale; and
• The impact on contamination in Massachusetts as a result of Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP)’s Recycling IQ Toolkit program by Chris Coady.

In addition, Brooke Nash of MassDEP will present firsthand impressions of the kit and its utility in curbing recycling contamination.

The webinar is free, but registration is required. For more information, contact NERC Executive Director Lynn Rubinstein by email at lynn@nerc.org or by phone at 802-254-3636.

NERC is a nonprofit organization that conducts research, projects, training, and outreach on issues associated with source reduction, reuse, recycling, composting, and environmentally preferable purchasing.

NEWMOA says it is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, interstate association whose membership is composed of the state environment agency programs that address pollution prevention, toxics use reduction, sustainability, materials management, hazardous waste, solid waste, emergency response, waste site cleanup, underground storage tanks and related environmental challenges in the Northeast states.