U.S. Composting Council's 21st Annual Conference and Tradeshow

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Sunday, January 27 -- Special Preconference Event!
8:00 AM – USCC 1st Annual Conference Golf Outing and Benefit, Hawk's Landing Golf Club at the Orlando World Center Marriot
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Monday, January 28
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Pre-Conference Training Courses, Workshops and Tours
11:00 AM – 7:00 PM, Exhibitor Registration & Set Up

Tuesday, January 29
8:00 AM – 10:00 PLENARY SESSION
Welcome to USCC 2013 – Michael Virga, USCC Executive Director
Opening Keynote – "Journey to Zero Waste" Vonda Lockwood, Walmart Director of Sustainability for US Operations.
Panel of Industry Leaders “Opportunities and Barriers to Compost Industry Growth”
Jeffrey LeBlanc, President, WeCare Organics; William Caesar, President, Waste Management’s Recycle America and Organic Growth; George Dreckmann, Recycling Coordinator, City of Madison, WI; Scott DeFife, Executive Vice President, National Restaurant Association
10:45 AM – 12:30 PM, CONCURRENT SESSION 1
Composting Growth: National and Regional, Diverting Organics From Disposal, Community Composting in NYC, Worker Protection at Composting Facilities
2:00 PM – 3:45 PM, CONCURRENT SESSION 2
Compostable Packaging, Update on Persistent Herbicides, Urban and College Composting, Composting Education
4:15 PM – 6:00 PM. CONCURRENT SESSION 3
Municipal Planning and Composting, Tools of the Trade, Composter as Collector, Recent Research in Compost Uses
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EXHIBITORS RECEPTION

Wednesday, January 30
7:45 AM – 8:15 AM USCC ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM, CONCURRENT SESSION 4
Anaerobic Digestion, Food Waste in Focus, Compost Facility Start-Ups: Opportunities and Challenges, Annual Seal of Testing Assurance (STA) Program meeting
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM, CONCURRENT SESSION 5
Compost Technologies 1, 3rd Annual Compostable Plastics Symposium, Session 1: Greening the Arena, The Business of Organics Recycling, Communication and Market Development Committee: Introducing the Million Tomato Campaign
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM, ANNUAL AWARDS LUNCHEON (TICKET REQUIRED) - GREAT HALL NORTH
Featured Keynote: Will Allen, Growing Power “The Power of Urban Agriculture and the Role of Compost”
2:15 PM – 3:45 PM, CONCURRENT SESSION 6
Compost Technologies 2, 3rd Annual Compostable Plastics Symposium, Session 2: Standards and Initiatives, Compost Markets and Marketing, Legislative Updates: New Rules and Ban Repeals
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM, CONCURRENT SESSION 7
Vermicomposting and mortality composting, 3rd Annual Compostable Plastics Symposium, Session: Compostable Plastics Task Force, Organics Stewardship, Meet and Greet with CCREF Boart of Trustees
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, ZERO WASTE RECEPTION – HOSTED BY BIODEGRADABLE PRODUCTS INSTITUTE

Thursday, January 31
7:00 AM – 3:00 PM “LIVE” EQUIPMENT DEMONSTRATIONS AT THE ORANGE COUNTY LANDFILL AND COMPOSTING FACILITY.

MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2013
PRE-CONFERENCE TRAINING COURSES & WORKSHOPS	Back to Top

Time	Course
8:00 am - 5:00 pm	Foundations of Composting - Instructors: Dr. Robert Rynk and Matthew Cotton	CLOISTER NORTH
8:00 am - 5:00 pm	Compost Use in Agriculture, Horticulture and Landscaping - Instructors: Dr. Monica Ozores-Hampton, Dr. Donald Rockwood	GALLERY
8:30 am - 4:00 pm	Aerated Static Pile Composting - Applications and Advancements Instructor: Peter Moon, PE	CLOISTER SOUTH
8:30 am - 4:00 pm	Compost Business Management - Instructors: Craig Coker, David Hill and guests	SCRIBE
8:00 am - Noon	Compost Marketer's Toolkit - Instructor: Ron Alexander	KNAVE
8:30 am - Noon	The In-depth Food Waste Recycling Workshop for the Restaurant and Supermarket Industries: The Keys to Success for the Generator and Hauler - Instructor: Mike Manna	YEOMAN
8:30 am - Noon	Compost Outreach: Best Practices in Compost Education Programs - The Key to Effective Community Participation - Instructor: Stan Slaughter	CAPTAIN
1:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Whats in YOUR Compost? How to Know and What to Put on Your Label - Instructor: Ron Alexander	KNAVE
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Zero Waste and Organics Collection Training for Special Event Coordinators: Planning and Implementation - Instructor: Peter Klaich	YEOMAN
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Odor Control and Process Management: Focus on Food Wastes - Instructor: Jeff Gage	CAPTAIN
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Vermicomposting Food Residuals at Restaurants, Businesses and Institutions - Instructor: Rhonda Sherman	SENATE
Noon - 1:00 pm	Lunch for those taking a full day of classes

PRE-CONFERENCE TOURS

(BUSES LEAVE FROM BUENA VISTA PALACE)

Time
9:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Tour of Local Composting Facilities
	C & C Peat Windrow Composting and Potting Soil Production Vista Park In-vessel Composting of Mixed Organics, operated by Waste Management Lunch is included, sponsored by Publix Markets
1:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Disney Institute's "Business Behind the Magic" Behind-the-Scenes
	Walt Disney World Resort Nursery and Tree Farm The "Utilidor" System Epcot Cast Services Textile Services
11:00 pm - 7:00 pm	Exhibitor Registration & Set Up

TUESDAY, JAN 29, 2013

Time
7:00 am	EXHIBITS OPEN	EVENT CENTER
7:00 am - 8:00 am	Continental Breakfast	EVENT CENTER
8:00 am - 10:00 am	Plenary Session	GREAT HALL NORTH
	WELCOME TO USCC 2013 Lorrie Loder, USCC President and Master of Ceremonies James Becker, Orange County Director of Solid Waste Michael Virga, USCC Executive Director
	Opening Keynote: "JOURNEY TO ZERO WASTE" - Vonda Lockwood, Walmart Director of Sustainability for US Operations
	Panel of Industry Leaders: "Opportunities and Barriers to Compost Industry Growth" Moderator: Mitch Kessler, Kessler Consulting Jeffrey LeBlanc, President, WeCare Organics William Caesar, President, Waste Management's Recycle America and Organic Growth George Dreckmann, Recycling Coordinator, City of Madison, WI Scott Defife, National Restaurant Association Executive Vice President
	Break with Exhibitors in Event Center

CONCURRENT SESSION 1

Time
10:45 am - 12:15 pm	Composting Growth: National and Regional	GREAT HALL CENTER
	Moderator: Brenda Platt, Institute for Local Self Reliance, Washington, DC Composting: Great Potential? So What's the Hang Up? Juri Freeman, Skumatz Economic Research Associates Inc. (SERA), Superior, CO 100% Diversion - What Will It Take and What Will It Mean for America? Noel Lyons and Lynn Lucas, McGill Environmental Systems, Harrells, NC Growing Food Waste Diversion Programs - Trends in Food Waste Composting in the Southeast Miriam Zimms, Kessler Consulting, Inc., Tampa, FL
10:45 am - 12:15 pm	Diverting Organics From Disposal	GREAT HALL EAST/WEST
	Moderator: Chuck Wilson, A1 Organics Closing the Loop on Supermarket Recycling: A case study Patti Olenick, Weis Markets, Sunbury, PA Food Waste and Packaging: The Tricky Balancing Act JD Lindeberg, Resource Recycling Systems, Ann Arbor, MI Maximizing Organics Diversion: A Comparison of Residential Food Waste Capture Rates Rhodes Yepsen, Novamont North America, Inc., Danbury CT Close the Loop Vermont: Developing Systems to Recycle all of Vermont’s Food Scraps by 2017 Noah Fishman, Highfields Center for Composting, Hardwick, VT
11:00 am - 12:30 pm	Community Composting in NYC	KNIGHTS HALL
	Moderator: Rebecca Geraty, St. Louis Composting Applied Concepts in Urban Composting Stephanos Koullias, Western Queens Compost Initiative, Astoria, NY Community Supported Composting Erik Martig and Christine Petro, Gowanus Canal Conservancy, Brooklyn, NY Public Engagement in Local Composting Charlie Bayrer, Compost Manager at Earth Matter NY, Inc, funded in part by NYC Dept of Sanitation Compost Project, Local Organics Recovery Program Slow Compost in the City David Buckel, Red Hook Community Farm, Brooklyn, NY
11:00 am - 12:30 pm	Worker Protection at Composting Facilities	CLOISTER
	Moderator: Jeff Ziegenbein, Inland Empire Utilities Authority Conducting a Hazard Evaluation of an On-Farm Anaerobic Digester and Related Systems Nellie J. Brown, Cornell University-ILR, Buffalo, NY Improving Safety at Compost Facilities George Driver, Old Castle Lawn and Garden
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm	Networking Lunch Break (On Your Own)

CONCURRENT SESSION 2

Time
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Compostable Packaging	GREAT HALL CENTER
	Understanding the Links in the Compostable Foodservice Packaging Value Chain Moderator: Lynn M. Dyer, Foodservice Packaging Institute Caitlin Leibert, Sustainability Coordinator, Chipotle Mexican Grill Sue Quick, Product Stewardship Manager, MeadWestvaco John Mulcahy, Vice President Strategy & Category Effectiveness, Georgia-Pacific Professional Noel Lyons, President, McGill Environment Systems Tim Goodman, Cradle-to-Cradle Manager, NatureWorks
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Update on Persistent Herbicides	GREAT HALL EAST
	Moderator: Ginny Black, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Persistent Herbicide Damage in Vermont Tom Moreau and Dan Goosen, Chittenden Solid Waste District (CSWD), Williston, VT Recent Research Results Fred Michel, Ohio State University, Wooster, OH Discussion, USCC Response and Strategy
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm	Urban and College Composting	KNIGHTS HALL
	Moderator: Robert Rynk, SUNY Cobleskill Composting in a Big Apple High Rise Michael Bryan-Brown, Green Mountain Technologies, Bainbridge Island, WA The Business of Organics Recycling in Dense Urban Centers: Updates and Case Studies from New York City Matt de la Houssaye, Global Green USA, New York, NY SSO Composting at St. John's University Peter Moon, O2Compost, Snohomish, WA The Goshen College Composter - Food Waste to Garden Greens Lewis Naylor, Goshen College, Goshen IN, Goshen, IN
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm	Composting Education	CLOISTER
	Moderator: Michele Young, City of San Jose Composting as Co-Curricula Activity for Secondary Schools: The Nigerian Experience George Oldele Opeolu, Osun State College Of Technology,Esa Oke.Nigeria Closing the Loop While Building Communities - The Value of Connecting Organic Recycling and Compost with Schools and Community Gardens Anne Ludvik and Rob Friend, Specialized Environmental Technologies, Inc., Eden Prairie, MI Green School Solutions: Innovative School Composting Program Jason Sanders, Texas Disposal Systems, Buda, TX Austin Home Composting Rebate Program Daniela Ochoa Gonzalez, SOLURSO Sustainable Urban Solutions, Austin, TX
	Break with Exhibitors in Event Center

CONCURRENT SESSION 3

Time
4:15 pm - 5:45 pm	Municipal Planning and Composting	GREAT HALL CENTER
	Moderator: Brain Fleury, WeCare Organics The Challenges of Composting in Rockbridge County in Southwestern Virginia: Bringing County, City, and Institutional Stakeholders to the Table Bill Hamilton, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA The City of Dallas - Critical Importance of Composting in Reaching Long-term Resource Recovery Goals Risa Weinberger, Risa Weinberger & Associates, Inc., Dallas, TX Bordo Poniente Composting Facility in Mexico City: 2,500 ton/day of Feedstock Producing 500 ton/day of Compost Luis Raul Tovar, Francisco Javier Barrón, Ma. Eugenia Gutiérrez, and María Teresa Nuñez, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City, Mexico
4:15 pm - 5:45 pm	Tools of the Trade	GREAT HALL EAST/WEST
	Jeff Gage of Compost Design Services will lead an informative interactive workshop on getting the most out of new and common tools of the industry. The emphasis will be on tools to help monitor various aspects of the process, including proper techniques for sampling your piles.
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm	Composter as Collector	KNIGHTS HALL
	Panel of composters discuss the advantages and pitfalls of being their own hauler. Panelists will include:Moderator: Matt Cotton, IWM Consulting George Jordan, AgRecycle, Pittsburgh, PA Amy Brooks, Brooks Contracting, Goldston, NC Chuck Wilson, A-1 Organics, Eaton, CO Everett Hoffman, Bootstrap Compost, Boston, MA
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm	Recent Research in Compost Uses	CLOISTER
	Moderator: Frank Franciosi, Novozymes Turfgrass Seeding Practices for Reclaiming Disturbed Urban Land with Compost Gregory Evanylo, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA Use of Composted Wastes of the Tequila Industry as Growing Media for Blue Agave Tequila Marcos Rafael Crespo-Gonzalez, University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico Nutrient Budget for Fruit and Vegetables Based on Compost and Inorganic Fertilizer Monica Ozores-Hampton, University of Florida/Southwest Florida Research and Education Center. Immokalee, FL Water Productivity Under Different Puddling Intensities and Organic Amendments in SRI Method of Rice Establishment Veena Sharma, Jammu, India
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm	Exhibitors Reception	EVENT CENTER

WEDNESDAY, JAN 30, 2013

Time
7:30 am - 8:30 am	Exhibit Open, Breakfast Available	EVENT CENTER
7:45 am - 8:15 am	USCC Annual Membership Meeting	CLOISTER
	All members attending this meeting will be eligible to win a free confererence registration for the 2014 conference in Oakland, CA! (Must be present to win)

CONCURRENT SESSION 4

Time
8:30 am - 10:00 am	Anaerobic Digestion	GREAT HALL CENTER
	Moderator: George Savage, CalRecovery Development of the AD Industry in the US: Status Report Josh Lieberman, American Biogas Council, Washington, DC Requirements for Food Waste AD Pre-processing -- It All Depends...! Norma McDonald, OWS Inc., Cincinnati, OH Five Year Status Report on an On-Farm Anaerobic Digester in New York State – Money well spent? Jeffrey Heath, PE, GHD, Cazenovia, NY Analysis of Dry Fermentation Anaerobic Digestate to Finished Compost Product Steven Sell, BIOFerm Energy Systems, Madison, WI
8:30 am - 10:00 am	Food Waste Focus	GREAT HALL EAST/WEST
	Moderator: : Tim Goodman, NatureWorks Food Court Composting Holly Elmore, Elemental Impact, Atlanta, GA The Business Side of Post-Consumer Food Waste Composting Dan Matsch, Eco-Cycle, Boulder, CO State of the Industry: How Food Waste Generators are Buying Organics Programs Today Robin Sweere, Sweere Consulting, Dallas, TX National Restaurant Association and USCC: Joining Together to Expand Composting in Restaurants Jeff Clark, National Restaurant Association, Ventura, CA
8:30 am - 10:00 am	Compost Facility Start-Ups: Opportunities and Challenges	KNIGHTS HALL
	Moderator: Robert Tunnell III, Blue Hen Organics Business Case Study: Compost Facility Start-Up Opportunities and Challenges Pierce Louis and Tyler Miller, Dirt Hugger The Dalles, OR Challenges and Lessons Learned in Building a Food Scraps Composting Facility Eric Walter, Black Bear Composting, Crozet, VA Planning, Permitting and Constructing an Urban Commercial Compost Business in Less Than 12 Months Grant A. Gibson, Compost Cincy, Cincinnati, OHs
	Market Development Committee Meeting	CLOISTER
	Annual Seal of Testing Assurance (STA) Program meeting (8:30-9:30) Introducing the Million Tomato Campaign (9:30-10:00)
	Break with Exhibitors in Event Center

CONCURRENT SESSION 5

Time
10:45 am - 12:15 pm	Compost Technologies 1	GREAT HALL CENTER
	Moderator: Tom Herlihy, WormPower Davenport Iowa Odor Control Improvements Todd Williams, CH2M Hill, Mechanicsville, VA and Scott Plett, City of Davenport, IA Heat Redistribution System for Composters Eyad Jamaleddine, McGill University & Vertal Inc, Longueuil, Quebec Food Waste Composting With Plastic on Purpose Kevin Barnes, City of Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA State-of-the-Art for Removing Contamination from Organic Wastes George M. Savage and Luis Diaz, CalRecovery, Concord, CA
10:45 am - 12:15 pm	3rd Annual Compostable Plastics Symposium, Session 1	GREAT HALL EAST/WEST
	The 3rd Annual Compostable Plastics Symposium is sponsored in part by Ingeo from Natureworks Greening the Arena: A Case Study in the Compostable Plastics Value Chain Facilitated by Phil Ragan, EcoSafe Zero Waste, Surrey, BC Members of the Case Study Panel include: Resin Producer: Keith Edwards, BASF Corporation Regulator: Dick Lilly, Seattle Public Utilities Hauler and Composter: Michelle Riggs, Cedar Grove Composting Product Supplier and Distributor: Xavier Noblat, Sales and Marketing Manager, R3 Redistribution Seattle Venue and Event Management: Leslie Lukacs, L2 Environmental Leadership in Sustainable Practices and Advocacy: Scott Jenkins, Seattle Mariners & Green Sports Alliance
10:45 am - 12:15 pm	The Business of Organics Recycling	KNIGHTS HALL
	Moderator: MirIam Zimms, Kessler Consulting Organics Operating Systems: Applying Integrated Approaches to Managing Organic Materials Paul Sellew, Harvest Power, Waltham, MA Sustainability and the Compost Business: How a Commitment to Sustainability Spurred Sales Growth in a Declining Economy Kathy Kellogg Johnson, Kellogg Garden Products, Carson, CA Food Waste Composting: A Look at a Growing Business Wade Hooton, EcoScraps, Inc, Provo, UT New Technologies in Compost: What Works for the Organic Production Market? Doug Currier, OMRI (Organic Materials Review Institute), Eugene, OR
10:45 am - 12:15 pm	Legislative Updates and Initiatives	CLOISTER
	New and Model Rule Development Stephanie Busch, GDNR, GA, Nora Goldstein, Biocycle, Emmaus, PA, and Ginny Black, MPCA, MN Status of Ban Repeals Rebecca Geraty, St. Louis Composting, St. Louis, MO Bring Us Your Issues! Open discussion with USCC Legislative and Environmental Affairs Committee, Brenda Platt, Chair
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm	Annual Awards Luncheon (Ticket Required)	GREAT HALL NORTH
	Featured Keynote: Will Allen, Growing Power “The Power of Urban Agriculture and the Role of Compost”

CONCURRENT SESSION 6

Time
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm	Compost Technologies 2	GREAT HALL CENTER
	Moderator: Lew Naylor, Goshen College Geographical Information System: An Approach to Innovation Composting Systems and Techniques in South West Nigeria Obianuju Maureen Ogoliegbune, Sowunmi Ifeanyichukwu Linda, and Lawal Oduola Ibrahim, Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria, Ibadan, Oyo, Nigeria Utilizing GPS and GIS technology for Compost Facility Management and Compliance Shawn M. Kelley, Michael B. Whitt, and Kara R. Grones, Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, Prior Lake, MN The Benefits of Upgrading to Intensive Compost Process Management at a Large Scale Source Separated Organics Facility Tim O'Neill, Engineered Compost Systems-ECS, Seattle, WA Innovative Composting Technology for Biosolids Conversion to Class AA Bill Townshend, South Dade Soil and Water Conservation District, Florida City, FL
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm	3rd Annual Compostable Plastics Symposium, Session 2	GREAT HALL EAST/WEST
	Moderator: Michele Young, City of San Jose Sorting Through the Latest Names, Claims and Performance of Degradable Additives and How They Impact Compostable Plastics Keith A. Edwards, SPI-Bioplastics Council, Liberty Twp, OH Lessons Learned from California's Compostable Plastic Labeling Laws Sue Vang, Californians Against Waste, Sacramento, CA and Laurie Hansen Strategic Partners Group, Sacramento, CA Biopolymers- An Effective Tool For Decentralised Organic Waste Management and Carbon Foot Print Reduction Shilpa Manjure, Natur-Tec, Circle Pines, MN and C Dhakshayani, Harita-NTI, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Plastics Sorting Study—What’s Really In The “Overs”? Matthew Cotton, IWM Consulting, Nevada City, CA
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm	Compost Markets and Marketing	KNIGHTS HALL
	Moderator: Wayne Bowen, Pennsylvania Recycling Markets Center The Market Potential of Compost: Who Buys What, Why, When and How Juri Freeman, Skumatz Economic Research Associates Inc. (SERA), Superior, CO Florida's Emerging Compost Markets? Developing a Market for Compost in a Barren Landscape Keith A. Howard, Lee County Solid Waste Division, Ft. Myers, FL Establish a Cost Effective Marketing Budget and Track Your Return on Marketing Investment (ROMI) David Hill, CycleLogic, Sarasota, FL How to Market Yourself, Your Brand, and Your Compost Justen Garrity, Veteran Compost, Aberdeen, MD
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm	Crowd-Resourcing Workshop: Harnessing the Power of People through Online Fundraising!	CLOISTER
	Trainer: Erin Barnes, ioby Executive Director/Co-Founder Crowd-Resourcing Training will cover: Introduction to Resource Organizing Grassroots Fundraising Basics Online Fundraising Tools, Best Practices in Email, Facebook, Twitter & Online Video Incorporating Online Fundraising Campaigns into Funding Needs for Green Projects Best Practices for Online Communications About the trainers: ioby connects people to environmental projects in their own neighborhoods. We use a cutting edge, crowd- resourcing platform for neighborhood civic leaders and emerging environmental innovators. On ioby.org, anyone with a good idea that helps the environment and the community can create their own web-based micro-site to raise tax-deductible donations, find local volunteers and share innovations with a likeminded and local community. We support early stage environmental ideas in cities and connect them online for crowd-accelerated innovation. All the while, we measure and report impacts, and share them with the micro-donors who support projects in their neighborhoods.
	Break with Exhibitors in Event Center
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Certification Exam for Swana/USCC Manager of Composting Programs	CAMBRIDGE

CONCURRENT SESSION 7

Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm	Vermicomposting and Mortality Composting	GREAT HALL CENTER
	Moderator: Heidi Ringhofer, Western Lake Superior Sanitary District Composting Poultry Mortality System Modified for Exposed Desert Environment Samir Al-Ghawas, KISR, Kuwait City Review of Mid-to-Large Scale Food Residuals Vermicomposting Rhonda Sherman, NC State University, Raleigh, NC Large Scale Vermicomposting Case Study Tom Herlihy, Worm Power, Geneseo, NY
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm	3rd Annual Compostable Plastics Symposium, Session 3	GREAT HALL EAST/WEST
	For the past 2 years, the USCC's Compostable Plastics Task Force has been discussing and debating a number of critical issues dealing with the acceptance, identification, legislation, enforcement, and testing of compostable plastics received at composting facilities. This session will provide an opportunity for participants to learn the outcome and status of these many discussions. The 3 Working Groups of the Task Force, Labeling and Information, Standards and Practices, and Legislation and Enforcement, will meet as groups and all together to discuss accomplishments to date and future plans. All conference attendees are welcome to participate.
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm	Organics Stewardship	KNIGHTS HALL
	Moderator: Brian Rosa, NC DENR, Division of Environmental Assistance & Outreach Humanure - The Use of Human Excrement as a Compost Feedstock Joseph Jenkins, Joseph Jenkins, Inc, Grove City, PA Growing Local Advocacy for Healthy Policies and Healthy Communities Nicole Chardoul, Resource Recycling Systems, Ann Arbor, M Building Organics Stewardship in Puerto Rico: Lessons Learned from a Pilot Internship Melissa Young and Carissa Matthews, Environmental Finance Center at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm	Meet and Greet with CCREF Board of Trustees	CLOISTER
	4:30 to 5:15 - Speak OUT! A participatory session to share your ideas and vision for compost research and education with the Trustees of the Composting Council Research and Education Foundation 5:15 to 6:00 - CCREF Board Meeting
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm	Reception: Zero Waste - Hosted by Biodegradable Products Institute	20Seven

THURSDAY, JAN 31, 2013

"Live" Equipment Demonstrations at the Orange County Landfill and Composting Facility.

Come out to the Orange County Composting Facility to see this year’s Equipment Demonstrations. Nowhere else will you get to compare and contrast so many different machines operating along side each other. This is a unique opportunity to observe some of the best and newest equipment in operation for those conference attendees who have immediate or future equipment needs.

This fun, fascinating and informative day is INCLUDED with your full conference registration, DON’T MISS IT!

Approximate schedule for the day:

7:00 - 8:00 am

8:00 - 8:45

8:45 - 9:00

9:00 - 9:45

9:45 - 10:15

10:15 - 11:00

11:00 - 11:30

11:30 - 11:50

11:50 - 12:20

12:20 - 1:20

1:00 - 3:00

Buses from Buena Vista Palace, light breakfast at facility

Welcome, orientation, brief introduction from each demonstrator

Distribution of safety gear, move to first demonstration area

Grinders and Shredders (2 groups, 20 minutes each)

Visit with demonstrators

Screeners, Baggers, Spreaders, Mixers

Visit with Demonstrators

Windrow Turners

Visit with Demonstrators

BarBQ lunch

Visiting with vendors, shuttles to airports and hotel

Current lineup of equipment includes::

Grinding and shredding equipment from Bandit, Diamond Z, Doppstadt, DuraTech, Komptech,
Morbark, Vermeer and Peterson Pacific
Screening equipment from Doppstadt, Komptech, McCloskey, Neuenhauser, Terra Select, and Vermeer
Compost turning equipment from Backhus, Komptech, Midwest Biosystems, Scarab and Vermeer
Mixing equipment by Roto-Mix
Compost Application equipment by EcoLawn and Filtrexx