2022 Connecticut Recycling Conference

The CT Recycling Conference is our signature event featuring a robust discussion of key issues facing the recycling and materials management industries and markets in Connecticut, as well as the impacts on the many customers and stakeholders in the state.

 

The 2022 Conference program will include expert panel discussions of timely issues in recycling and sustainable approaches to materials management. Plus, CRC's annual legislator panel will round out the day, providing insight on what you need to know to make a difference in Connecticut.

7:15 am    Vendor Set Up

8 am         Registration & visit vendors

                Continental Breakfast

8:25 am    Welcome, CRC President Lori Vitagliano

8:30 am:  Panel Discussion:  The recycling challenges of multi-family housing
Ginny Walton, Town of Mansfield
Robert Isner, Director, Waste Engineering and Enforcement, CT DEEP
Joe Engravalle, All American Waste

9:30 am:    Panel Discussion: Where are we with organics?
Heather Billings, Center for EcoTechnology
Samuel King, Blue Earth Compost
Kristen Brown, WasteZero

10:15 am: Break & Visit vendors

11:00 am: Panel Discussion: Advances in Technology - What's here and what's coming
Mike Noel, TOMRA
Patrick Grasso, Urban Mining
Ryan Cournoyer, Van Dyk Recycling Solutions
 
Noon:  Legislator Panel: Wins & Losses from the 2022 CT General Assembly session
Senator Christine Cohen, Senate Chair
Representative Joseph Gresko, House Chair
Senator Craig Miner, Senate Ranking member 
Representative Stephen Harding, House Ranking member *invited

12:45 pm    Closing Remarks, CRC President Lori Vitagliano

1 pm:    Adjourn

 

The CT Recyclers Conference is the singular event each year where municipalities, state officials, the business community and non-profit organizations in Connecticut come together in one setting to have a dialogue about the best ways to achieve our mutual goal of a 60% recycling rate statewide.

 

You don't want to miss it!