2025 NRC National Recycling Congress – Call For Presentations – CLOSED

The 2025 Call for Presentations and speakers has closed. Thank you to everyone who submitted proposals. We received many great proposals and the review committee will review each one. All submissions will be reviewed, and each will be notified whether selected by June 1, 2025. Once the selections are made we will post the Congress schedule.  

 

This year’s Congress theme is Strategies for Circularity.  The hybrid event will take place October 1-3, 2025, at Wichita State University.

 

We are happy to share we received proposals on the following topics: 

• Circular Economy (policies, programs, and case studies)
• Upstream (rethink, redesign, and reduce)
• Reuse programs (e.g., stores, cafes, fix-it clinics, resource recovery parks, donation programs for food, clothes, furniture, and housing)
• Organics Collection, Recovery, and Recycling (policies, programs, and case Studies)
• Recycling for Residents, Businesses, and Institutions (policies, programs, and case studies)
• Outreach and Education
  • Behavior change 
  • Apps, data, and AI 
  • Responding to negative publicity about recycling
• Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for Packaging
• Chemical Recycling
• Funding for Reuse, Recycling, and Composting Infrastructure
• Plastics 
  • Policy and legislation (including the Global Plastic Treaty)
  • Impacts of Plastics 
  • Plastics-free programs
  • Plastics recycling
• Markets for Paper, Metals, and Glass
• Market Development (Economic development, procurement, and buy recycled) 
• Environmental Justice
• University/higher education programs and classes
  • Zero Waste 
  • Collection programs
  • Hard to recycle
  • Training programs

 

Thank you for your support in making this a great National Recycling Congress!