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SWANA Day 2016

Thursday November 17, 9am to 4pm
Pinnacle Hotel at the Pier, North Vancouver

Thank you for helping to make this year’s SWANA Day a huge success! More than 80 people from the solid waste industry joined SWANA Pacific Chapter’s board for our annual SWANA Day and AGM at the Pinnacle Hotel at the Pier in North Vancouver. A huge thank you to everyone who helped make it happen – our generous event sponsors (Canadian Plastics Industry Association, Dillon Consulting, Ecosafe Zero Waste, Ecowaste and Product Care), knowledgeable presenters, Pinnacle at the Pier Hotel staff and YOU!

Venue Information

Presentations

Big Thanks to our Sponsors

SWANA Day Agenda – Click the bars below to open up full session details.

08:00 – 09:00 AM Registration

Located in the Foyer of Pinnacle Room

09:00 - 10:30 AM Industry Updates (sponsored by Product Care)

Mark Watt, President, SWANA Pacific (Moderator)

  • EPR Updates – Allen Langdon, Managing Director, Multi-Material BC – MMBC Program Updates
  • Material Markets Update – Doris Wong, VP, Materials Marketing, Emterra
  • Surrey Biofuel Facility Update – Rob Costanzo, Manager, Engineering-Operations, City of Surrey

11:00– 11:45 AM Ministry of Environment Program Updates

Mark Watt, President, SWANA Pacific (Introduction)

MOE Program Updates – MSW (including OMRR) and EPR Updates – Gwendolyn Lohbrunner, Policy Specialist, Clean Technologies Section, Environmental Standards Branch and Meegan Armstrong, Extended Producer Responsibility Section

11:45 – 12:00 PM AGM

Agenda

  1. Appointment of Chairperson and Secretary for meeting
  2. Call to Order (Chairperson)
  3. Minutes of Last AGM November 19, 2015 (Secretary of Meeting) – copies on tables
  4. President’s Report (Mark Watt)
  5. Report from Training Committee (Nicole Steglich)
  6. Report from International Board Representative (Karen Storry)
  7. Report from Scholarship Committee (Mike Stringer)
  8. Report from Membership Committee (Al Lynch)
  9. Report from Conference Committee (Alida Kusch)
  10. Treasurer’s Report (Deacon Liddy) – copies on tables
  11. Appointment or waiving of Auditor (Deacon Liddy)
  12. Election of new Chapter Directors (Past President conducts election)
  13. Other Business
  14. Adjournment

1:00 – 2:00 PM Gypsum and Demolition Materials Presentations and Panel (sponsored by Ecowaste)

Tom Land, ‎President & Chief Executive Officer at Ecowaste Industries Ltd (Moderator)

Gypsum and Demolition Materials Presentations and Panel

  • Drew Fafard, Supervisor, Safety and Technical Services, Harland Operations, Capital Regional District
  • Paul Henderson, General Manager, Metro Vancouver Solid Waste Services
  • Darren Enevoldson, Environmental Technician II, City of Kelowna
  • Steven Penner, Senior Regional Officer for the Lower Mainland Asbestos and Demolition team for Prevention Field Services at WorkSafeBC

Okanagan Falls Landfill Demolition and Renovation Sort Line

  • Cameron Baughen, RDOS Solid Waste Management Coordinator

2:30 – 3:30 PM Plenary Panel (sponsored by Dillon Consulting Limited)

Andrew Doi, Environmental Planner, Solid Waste Services, Metro Vancouver (Moderator)

Illegal Dumping Panel

  • Meghan Larson, Special Projects Coordinator, Nanaimo Regional District
  • Suzanne Bycraft, Manager of Fleet and Environmental Programs, City of Richmond
  • Craig Wisehart, ‎Executive Director, Electronic Products Recycling Association (EPRA)

Regional Disaster Management Plan

  • Dipak Dattani, Assistant Director Engineering, City of Burnaby,
  • Allen Jensen, Assistant Project Engineer, Solid Waste, Metro Vancouver