Schedule at a Glance, Day 1 and 2

December 8, Zero Waste Business

7:45 AM	Networking and Zoom Assistance
8:00 AM	Welcome
8:15 AM	Plenary: Roadmap To A Zero Waste Business: Strategies From Beginners To Experts
9:00 AM	Keynote: Mary Curtiss – Circularity at HP Across the Value Chain
9:30 AM	Plenary: Metrics and Tools for the Invisible Bins: Reduce and Reuse
10:30 AM	Break
10:45 AM	Concurrent Sessions: Climbing The ZW Hierarchy To Highest And Best Use Introducing The Newest R’s: Rethink, Redesign, Re-Innovate Do Circular Products Make A Zero Waste Economy? Why Certification Matters To People, Planet And Profit Synergy Wins in Producer Responsibility
11:45 AM	Sponsor Showcase
12:15 PM	Keynote: Nina Bellucci Butler – In Transition from Business as Usual to a New Paradigm
12:45 PM	Concurrent Sessions: Recycling Market Development And Infrastructure Culture Change & Employee Engagement Best Practices In ZW Contracting With Service Providers Increasing Your Bottom-Line By Measuring What Matters
1:45 PM	Plenary: Zero Waste Events: From Meetings to Sporting Events
2:45 PM	Plenary: Zero Waste Construction, Deconstruction and Design
3:45 PM	Creating A Zero Waste Economy For All
4:00 PM	Happy Hour, Networking and Sponsor Showcase

December 9, Zero Waste Communities

7:45 AM	Networking and Zoom Assistance
8:00 AM	Welcome
8:10 AM	Plenary: Rethink and Redesign
8:55 AM	Keynote: Yvette Arellano, Fenceline Watch – Latinx And Low-Income Communities Are Paying The Costs Of Plastic Pollution
9:25 AM	Plenary: The Decline of Single-Use Disposables – Reusable Foodware Systems
10:15 AM	Concurrent Sessions: Preventing Plastic Pollution on the Planet Zero Waste Youth in Action Fast Fashion: Addressing Overconsumption through Expanding Sustainable Choices Academics & Policy: Zero Waste at HIgher Learning Institutions
10:45 AM	Plenary: Expanding Reuse Infrastructure
11:30 AM	Sponsor Showcase
12:00 PM	Concurrent Sessions: Zero Food Waste Effective Outreach: Zero Waste Pop-Ups & Community Training Programs Zero Waste Myth Busting: Characterization and Contamination Zero Waste Approach to Wildland Fire Response Federal Funding for Reduce, Reuse, Recycling and Composting Infrastructure
12:30 PM	Keynote, Paul Connett – Untrashing The Planet One Community At A Time
1:00 PM	Plenary: Recycling Is Infrastructure Too!
1:45 PM	Plenary: Compostable Organics Out of Landfill Now – COOL Now!
2:30 PM	Concurrent Sessions: Zero Waste Myth Busting: Inreach vs Outreach The Evolving Consensus on EPR: Corporate Control to Municipal Reimbursement and Other Trends International Zero Waste Case Studies Recycling Reinvented: Addressing Systemic Reform for an Industry on the Verge of Transformation Hard to Recycle
3:00 PM	Happy Hour, Networking and Sponsor Showcase