SBCC
Center for Sustainability "Cities As the Solution" Series:
Waste &
Recycling for a Better World
March 25 & 26
Evening Talk, March 25, 7-9:30pm 2011
Keynote Speaker, Albe
Zakes from TerraCycle, Inc.
SBCC Campus, Fe Bland
Auditorium, West Campus
Admission $5
~
All Day Saturday Event, March 26, 9am - 4pm
Morning
Plenary/Afternoon Break-Out Sessions with:
Albe Zakes of
TerraCycle; Nikhil Arora from BTTR Ventures; & Author, Janet
Unruh
Admission, $30
general/$20 Students
SBCC Campus, East Campus
Meet the young
eco-entrepreneurs who can change the way you think about trash. And
those who can help you understand recycling, why we must, and how we
can. Please join the Santa Barbara City College Center for
Sustainability as it continues its "Cities As the
Solution" series with "Waste & Recycling for a
Better World" on March 25 & 26.
The event
starts on Friday evening with keynote speaker Albe Zakes, VP Marketing
from TerraCycle, Inc., a company that makes useful products from
garbage and is now at the forefront of the eco-capitalist movement.
Zakes will share the entrepreneurial adventure he and TerraCycle company
founder Tom Szaky have experienced together as they created a company
that's good for people, good for profits, and good for the
environment.
A follow-up event takes place on Saturday March 26
beginning with a morning plenary session, followed by afternoon
break-outs that includes 3 dynamic speakers in the world of Waste &
Recycling:
- Albe Zakes, 25 year-old Global VP/Media from TerraCycle, Inc.,
the world's leading 'upcycling' company, which converts waste materials
into eco-friendly, affordable products available at major retailers
worldwide. TerraCycle upcycles and recycles traditionally
non-recyclable waste, including drink pouches, chip bags, tooth brushes
and many more. TerraCycles innovative "Brigades" programs
encourage community organizations to participate in trash retrieval while
earning cash. Paying out more than a million dollars last year
alone, the Brigade programs are partially funded by corporate sponsors
like KRAFT, Starbucks, and Mars.
- Nikhil Arora, 23,
BTTR Ventures, a recent grad of UC Berkeley,
who with business partner Alex Velez, gave up potential careers in
investment banking to start an urban farm growing gourmet mushrooms from
coffee waste, in a downtown warehouse. Their most recent product,
the Easy-to-Grow Mushroom Garden kit, is carried in Whole Foods Markets
nationwide. Since starting BTTR Ventures they have diverted more than
10,000 pounds of coffee grounds per week from the waste stream, being
paid by coffee houses to do it. Trash to cash, they are proud of
creating & providing jobs in their urban community.
Janet Unruh, Executive Director of the Institute for Material
Sustainability, MA Engineering and Technology Management, and author of
Recycle Everything, Why We Must, How We Can. We've all heard
of peak oil, but what about peak hafnium, or peak terbium? Hafnium, which
is important in computer chips, could be depleted by 2017, and terbium,
used in florescent light bulbs, by 2012. Unruh believes that everything
can be recycled 100% - provided we learn how to design things properly
and set up the right systems for materials recovery.
In nature, there is no such thing as “waste,” but as humans, we
produce nearly 220 million tons per year. Come learn a better way,
to not only recycle, but upcycle, diverting billions of pieces of garbage
from our landfills and incinerators, while generating income and creating
jobs.
The evening talk takes place on Friday, March 25, 7-9:30pm at the Fe
Bland Forum on the SBCC West Campus. The Saturday event, March 26,
9am - 4pm will be at the SBCC PS101 Building on the East Campus, 721
Cliff Drive.
More Info/Websites/YouTubes:
Trash Trivia:
http://www.co.cass.in.us/ccswd/trivia.htm
TerraCycle:
www.terracycle.net
BTTR Ventures:
www.bttrventures.com
Janet Unruh:
www.howtorecycleeverythingbook.com
TerraCycle featured on Good Morning America:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaKoBuVZ_AI&feature=related
TerraCycle segment Discovery Channel: s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fpTVF-3uFQ&feature=related
TerraCycle Plastics
episode of Garbage Moguls on National Geographic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meV-clgVnJ0&feature=player_embedded#at=16
BTTR Ventures on BBC World New:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Oq0rAzlDi8&feature=related
Janet Unruh:
Executive Director; Institute for Material
Sustainability
Recycle the World: One Woman's Vision
http://www.enzymepdx.com/2010/recycle-everything/
By Matthew Singer
RADIO INTERVIEW
Program:
Recovery Zone
program date:
Wed, 12/22/2010
http://kboo.fm/node/25693
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