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Please join us for Apeiron’s next Evolution Forum! This month we will highlight Recycling in Rhode Island: Where we have been, where we are and where we want to be.
This month’s forum will feature presentations by experts from the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation, the Providence Department of Public Works, Clean Water Action and the Environmental Justice League; all of whom are involved in Recycling projects in Rhode Island.
Topics will include the Mission and Objectives of the “New” RIRRC, the No Bin/No Barrel Initiative only recently instituted in Providence, Producer Responsibility and Green Block Captain Trainings recently performed in Providence.
Join Apeiron as we look at how we can create a culture in RI where concepts such as “cradle to cradle” and “closed loop” can become more commonplace in how all Rhode Islanders view resource use.
So, become part of the RI Recycles Movement by bringing your friends, family and neighbors, your insightful questions and brilliant ideas for future recycling efforts and, by doing so, join us in our efforts to make RI the first Sustainable State in the Nation!
Schedule of Events
5:30 to 6:30 - Snacks and non-alcoholic drinks served
6:30 to 7:30 - Presentation
7:30 to 8:00 - Question and Answer session and mingling
Speaker Biographies:
Amelia Rose - Lead Organizer for the Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island- Amelia engages and activates Providence residents in the improvement of their own environments, including coordinating an Environmental Protection Agency-funded stakeholder group that is developing a city-wide plan to reduce resident exposure to toxics called the CARE (Community Action for a Renewed Environment) Alliance. Amelia has over six years of organizing and advocacy experience, including leading a housing code enforcement campaign in Washington, DC and working as a legislative assistant for the Unitarian Universalist Association's Washington Office advocating on behalf of federal human needs programs like Medicaid and Head Start. Most recently prior to coming on as the first and only full-time staff of the EJ League, Amelia worked in Rhode Island as an organizer for Toxics Action Center, providing organizing assistance to residents working on environmental campaigns in their towns.
Sheila Dormody with Clean Water Action- Sheila has been involved in advocacy, grassroots organizing, and training activists for the environmental and peace movements since 1989. Sheila joined the Rhode Island staff in 2000 and led the Rhode Island campaign that has won first-in-the-nation policies to phase out products that contain mercury. Since then she has led campaigns to require manufacturers to pay for the collection and recycling of computers, televisions and mercury switches. In 2008, she won a U.S. EPA Merit Award for her work to prevent mercury pollution. She is the coordinator of the Coalition for Water Security which brings together 18 Rhode Island environmental organizations to promote sustainable water management policies. She also is the Policy Co-Chair of the national Electronics TakeBack Coalition working to require electronics manufacturers to take responsibility for recycling their products and the coordinator of the national Zero Mercury Campaign.
Daisy Diaz Rivera is Associate Director of Environmental Services for the City of Providence Department of Public Works. Environmental Services covers the areas of environmental enforcement, rodent abatement, dumpster permitting, and the City’s residential trash and recycling services. Formerly the City’s Recycling Coordinator, Daisy specializes in municipal recycling programs.
Mike O’Connell, Executive Director of the RI Resource Recovery Corporation- Mike has an extensive background in management, operations, and fiscal reorganization garnered from over 30 years of experience in private industry. Since his arrival at RIRRC in 2007, Mike has restructured the organization, hired a new professional management team, instituted rigorous spending controls, and has implemented programs that have led to extending the life of the landfill from fourteen years to more than twenty-four. Under Mike’s leadership, the quasi-public corporation has recommitted to its mission to operate the state’s landfill in the most environmentally compliant and cost effective manner possible, to the benefit of all RI taxpayers.
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