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TCAPWA Sessions from page 7 SWANA SESSIONS Trash Scouts - A Way to?
Embellish Your TTA Experience
Taking Off: Improving Workflow Using Contamination Is Silently Sinking Presenter: TBD
Drones Your Recycling Program Summary: Have you heard of the Tennessee
Presenters: Shane Snoderly, City of Alcoa, Presenter: TBD Training Academy (TTA)? If you have and
and Jim Albert, LDA Engineering Summary: Commodity contamination is in the started taking courses, what’s next??This
Summary: The City of Alcoa was interested in forefront of the national spotlight. It is cited session looks at a TTA program that not
incorporating UAV’s, (also known as drones), as a cause for China’s Green Fence, National only recognizes high performing solid waste
as a tool they could use to improve customer Sword, and Blue Ski trading barriers that professionals, but also shares a means
service. Their vision was of a UAV program negatively impact today’s recycle markets. wherein they can give back and grow… not
that could be an effective tool throughout the This session looks at contamination and just for themselves in the industry, but also
City departments, potentially for their public its negative impact on local governments’ to their peers.?“Trash Scouts,” an affectionate
works department for water, sewer, electric and programs (and more regionally, what it is term tagged on to the TTA’s Professional
landfill management (along with sharing it doing to the mills.) Endorsement Program (PEP) drives your solid
with the Alcoa police and fire departments for waste professional experience to the next level.?
their needs). Alcoa was interested in moving Common Suite of Materials
forward but had many nagging questions and to Build a Program Understanding China’s
concerns. They decided to collaborate with LDA Presenter: TBD National Sword and Blue Ski
Engineering in Alcoa, partially because LDA Summary: A recent survey and review of local Presenter: TBD
has an established UAV program they have government websites show a great deal of Summary: China and the Pacific Rim are key
used with remarkable success. Join us to learn static, out of date, and problematic pages with players in the international recycling market.
about how we worked through our challenges, confusing or unclear messages. The public As major export partners, these economies
and how you can use our work as a best has become more savvy in their recycling closely are tied to what local governments
practice for your building and sustaining your efforts, often employing “wish-cycling” in their collect, process, and send to market. Supply
organization’s UAV program. attempts to recycle. This session will look at and demand forces from around the globe can
the use of messaging, and a common suite cause chaos here locally. This session will
of materials that local governments can use describe how these international impacts are
to improve their recycling messaging (and to affecting your community programs.
hopefully lower contamination that can sink a
program.)

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