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Tuesday, November 10, 2009 from 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM (PT)
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Environmentally Preferable Purchasing. To protect our environment and our own health, it is important to consider how a product is made and what it’s made with. Beyond recycled content, it is also important to look at other environmental attributes of products, such as energy consumption, toxicity, air and water pollution impact, materials efficiency (such as packaging), and the disposal impact at the end of its useful life. StopWaste.Org is an expert in determining best management practices in procuring and specifying environmentally preferable products in firms -large and small.
As much as 30 percent of all landfill dumping is estimated to be from C&D waste. The
ReUse People will discuss environmentally sound demolition and
deconstruction and material reuse benefits such as: tax donation
receipts, lower overall project costs, and the assurance that someone,
somewhere reuses the materials generated from your project
Beth Eckl, Environmental Purchasing Consultant, StopWaste.org
Beth Eckl has been an environmental purchasing consultant for the last
ten years working with municipalities, businesses and health care
purchasing groups around the country. Beth assists organizations
implement their environmental values through their purchasing and
contracting activities. She has worked closely with purchasing
stakeholders to modify contract specifications for products and
services. Beth has provided dozens of training seminars to businesses
and trade associations, and continues to provide her experience as a
stakeholder in standards development for several product areas. Prior
to consulting, Beth was the Manager of waste reduction, recycling and
environmental purchasing for Alameda County General Services Agency's
Purchasing Department in Oakland, CA. The County's success in
environmental purchasing was recognized by the US Conference of Mayors
and the California Resource Recovery Association. She has a bachelor's
degree in Interdisciplinary Studies, which focused on energy,
environmental science and policy, from the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill.
Ron Whittaker, Regional Manager, Oakland
A transplanted New Yorker, Ron has called the Bay Area home for over 20
years. In addition to working with over a dozen certified
deconstruction contractors on projects from Carmel to Napa to Lake
Tahoe, he continues to volunteer time with local community service
groups. He and his partner Kate live with their two sons in the lovely
island city of Alameda.
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