NHDES Credit Webinars

NHDES Credits:  1

This recorded panel webinar covers updates from Vermont’s recycling, composting, product stewardship, and waste reduction initiatives as well as Environmental Producer Responsibility stewardship legislation in Massachusetts.

Join the Northeast Resource Recovery Association, your recycling nonprofit, for this webinar to discuss these issues. Cathy Jamieson is a Solid Waste Program Manager at the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation. Ariela Lovett is a Legislative Analyst with the MA Municipal Association.

NHDES Credits:  1

On average, students produce 1.5 pounds of waste every single day. What does that mean? For example, a high school with 535 students did a waste composition study and calculated their waste generation to be 72 tons/year. This is equal to (on average) five and a half school buses!

NRRA's Star of Sustainability provides schools with the preliminary tools necessary to assess present waste management practices. The Star evaluates the sustainability of school recycling programs. Schools get clear, unbiased suggestions for future improvement as well as a baseline for examination of the positive effects of changes.

Join the Northeast Resource Recovery Association, your recycling nonprofit, for this recorded webinar to discuss these issues. Cindy Sterling is the Grants Manager and Senior Educator at NRRA.

NHDES Credits:  .75

Did you know that you can use crushed glass in road and infrastructure projects in the place of virgin aggregate such as gravel? For communities with limited options for recycling glass in a cost effective manner, reusing glass locally can be a great alternative.

Join Reagan Bissonnette, Executive Director of the Northeast Resource Recovery Association, and Madeleine DiIonno, a graduate student at the University of New Hampshire Carsey School of Public Policy and NRRA volunteer, to learn more in this recorded webinar. Attendees will learn about NRRA’s experience producing PGA, the differing state regulations governing PGA production and use in New England, and specific examples of how PGA has been used successfully in municipal and other projects, including in roads, sidewalks, and building foundations. 

NHDES Credits:  1

Imagine buying 5 bags of groceries. On your way out of the store, you dump 2 of them directly in the trash. This is the reality for Americans, who waste roughly 40% of food produced for consumption. School cafeterias are no exception, but it doesn't have to be that way! This recorded webinar will outline the wasted food crisis, model methods for measuring wasted cafeteria food, and provide tangible solutions.

Join the Northeast Resource Recovery Association, your recycling nonprofit, for this webinar to discuss these issues. Brenna Toman is a Planning Analyst for the Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District.

NHDES Credits:  1

This recorded panel webinar covered Materials Management Capacity in NH, MA, and VT, which encompassed all disposal capacity (landfill and waste to energy), transfer capacity, Construction and Demolition processing, Municipal Recycling Facilities, and compost.

Jeff Bourdeau's responsibilities at the VT Department of Conservation include the proper management of waste throughout  Vermont. Jeff is also responsible for permitting, construction review and operations oversight at the privately owned Coventry Landfill located in Northern VT. Michael Nork works in the Solid Waste Management Bureau at the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, and acts as the agency’s lead on recycling, composting and waste diversion. John Fischer is the Deputy Division Director of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.

NHDES Credits:  1

The "Internet of Things" will add 40 billion connected devices in the next 5 years, including drones, e-scooters, e-bicycles, and more, many of which will be powered by lithium batteries. These potentially combustible batteries will end up at northeast waste facilities and businesses, and require new training, packaging, and recycling methods. This recorded webinar includes best safety, storage, and transportation practices, featuring new solutions, like CellBlockEX, a recycled glass granule that extinguishes lithium fires. Prepare your facility for the future of batteries.

Join the Northeast Resource Recovery Association, your recycling nonprofit, and Sean Plasse, the Northeast Program Manager of Call2Recycle to learn more.

Participants say: I learned something new. "Some batteries are recycled into new batteries, pots and pans, silverware and some road asphalt." "There's a lot of information but it's so organized and easy to follow."

NHDES Credits:  .75

Want to be a recycling hero in your community? Learn simple tips & tricks for optimizing your recycling education and outreach efforts in this recorded webinar. With the average attention span just 8 seconds, reaching residents, customers, and students with important recycling information is challenging. Most people believe they know how to recycle,  yet our recycling contamination rates demonstrate otherwise. The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection will share best practices from their statewide recycling initiative, Recycle Smart MA. With over 20,000 engaged followers on social media and hundreds of partner organizations, Recycle Smart MA has tried and tested strategies that will help you break through the noise and get the word out about Smart Recycling practices.

Erin Victor is an Environmental Analyst with the MA Department of Environmental Protection.

NHDES Credits:  .75

For years, we have focused on recycling as the way to manage our ever changing waste stream. The industry has done a wonderful job finding new ways to use our waste in products. The Solid Waste Hierarchy gives guidance as to how we should approach waste management decisions. The first two concepts are “reduce and reuse”. It is time we take a hard look at these methods for managing waste and how they fit into an integrated waste management system in this recorded webinar. The City of Lebanon started an outreach campaign in 2018 that focused on reuse.

Join the Northeast Resource Recovery Association, your recycling nonprofit, for this webinar to discuss these issues. Marc Morgan is the Solid Waste Manager at the Lebanon, NH Recycling Center and Emily Rogers is the Member Education Manager of the Food Coop Store in Hanover, NH.

NHDES Credits:  1

Does your municipality have contracts in place for solid waste services, include trash, recycling, and perhaps even composting?  Would you like to understand the purpose and benefit of establishing such contracts and learn best practices for negotiating contract terms?  Does your municipality have contracts in place for solid waste services, include trash, recycling, and perhaps even composting?  Would you like to understand the purpose and benefit of establishing such contracts and learn best practices for negotiating contract terms?  

Join Reagan Bissonnette, Executive Director, and Bonnie Bethune, Member Services Manager of the Northeast Resource Recovery Association to discuss these topics.  Reagan Bissonnette is an attorney with a decade of experience negotiating contracts, and Bonnie Bethune has decades of experience both as a solid waste operator and negotiating solid waste contracts at NRRA.  Attendees will learn: 

• Tips for managing a Request for Proposal process;
• Common provisions in contracts for trash, recycling, and composting (including distinctions for single, dual, and source separated recycling); 
• Advice for negotiating fiscally responsible and sustainable contracts that will stand the test of time and inevitable market changes; and
• Lessons from sample contracts from New Hampshire municipalities.   

This free webinar is sponsored by NHDES and is available for both NRRA members and nonmembers. 

Viewing this Webinar is eligible for 1.25 NHDES training credit. To receive your credit certificate, please notify info@nrrarecycles.org once you’ve watched the webinar. We will need to verify your viewing of the webinar and then we will issue your credit to the email used to sign into the recording.

NHDES Credits:  1.25

Does your municipality have contracts in place for solid waste services, include trash, recycling, and perhaps even composting? Would you like to understand the purpose and benefit of establishing such contracts and learn best practices for negotiating contract terms?

Join Reagan Bissonnette, Executive Director, and Bonnie Bethune, Member Services Manager of the Northeast Resource Recovery Association to discuss these topics. Reagan Bissonnette is an attorney with a decade of experience negotiating contracts, and Bonnie Bethune has decades of experience both as a solid waste operator and negotiating solid waste contracts at NRRA. Attendees will learn:

• Tips for managing a Request for Proposal process;
• Common provisions in contracts for trash, recycling, and composting (including distinctions for single, dual, and source separated recycling);
• Advice for negotiating fiscally responsible and sustainable contracts that will stand the test of time and inevitable market changes; and
• Lessons from sample contracts from New Hampshire municipalities.

This free webinar is sponsored by NHDES and is available for both NRRA members and nonmembers.

Viewing this Webinar is eligible for 1.25 NHDES training credit. To receive your credit certificate, please notify info@nrrarecycles.org once you’ve watched the webinar. We will need to verify your viewing of the webinar and then we will issue your credit to the email used to sign into the recording.

This Webinar is Part 1 of a 2 part presentation

Link to Part 2 below:

nhdes bmps negotiating municipal contracts  - part 2