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CONFERENCE NEWS If you want to know more about how EPR will affect local government and businesses in B.C. - do not miss this conference!
"For some time now we've noticed a missing element in municipal solid waste management planning, and it's a growing piece of the planning puzzle. That missing piece is a long-range forecast, for perhaps 20 years, complete with approximate dates, for when products and materials will be shifted from local government responsibility to industry-led product stewardship responsibility under the Recycling Regulation. If you talk to the folks at the B.C. Ministry of Environment they will tell you that their long-range vision is that municipalities will continue to be responsible for residents' organic waste. But the bulk of the contents of the garbage can that you put out at curbside every week is product related, and that material will eventually become the responsibility of industry to collect, manage and pay for. Now, if I were a municipal planner, I would want to know and understand that. The implication is that more and more of the waste stream won't be my responsibility any more. In fact, I would need to start planning to phase out that responsibility. And if you think about it, I would want that to happen sooner rather than later. It costs a bundle to collect waste, not only for the services, but the infrastructure. If I said that some other municipally funded service was eventually going to be someone else's problem and they were going to provide and pay for that service, elected officials would be clamouring to ask one question: how soon can that happen? It should be a top priority to develop that long range EPR plan, and to ensure that our elected officials at the local level are aware of one particularly important fact that will assist in their planning. It will save their taxpayers money. How often in today's world do you get a chance to do that? Well the BC Ministry of Environment is going to outline the Canadian Council of Ministers for the Environment's long term EPR vision at our conference, so, ask the question! Get a response! And let's get planning to reduce municipal waste and lower your taxes.
Early Bird Registration Ends Today - April 23, 2010! * Register by April 23, 2010 and receive early bird rates as low as $520! * Book by April 25, 2010 at the Westin Resort and Spa and take advantage of room rates as low as $129/night. Program highlights are available here. NOTE DAY CHANGE! For more info visit: www.rcbc.bc.ca/events/annual-conference RCBC Annual General Meeting The 2010 RCBC Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held during the 36th Annual RCBC Zero Waste Conference on May 26, 2010 at noon. All registered RCBC members are welcome to attend. Please register for the AGM in advance if you are not attending the conference, to reserve your place. The meeting agenda and last year's minutes will be emailed in advance of the AGM, closer to the event.
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Registration The early bird rate for the conference registration is only available until April 23! Register today and take advantage of the savings. Register here. Accomodations
This year's early bird room rate is a phenomenal savings and a truly discounted price for a premium hotel in Whistler. Book by April 25, 2010 and take advantage of rates starting at $129 a night. Rooms may sell-out. The Westin Resort and Spa Whistler is extending this rate for RCBC conference attendees for three days prior to and three days after the event, should you wish to come up early or stay late and enjoy all that Whistler has to offer. Click here to proceed to registration. Transportation Here are the various ways you can get to Whistler (many of which are eco-friendly!): Bus Options
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For more information For general conference inquiries, contact Ben Ramos at 604.683.6009 ext. 314 or email conference@rcbc.bc.ca or visit our conference page. |
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