Top 10 Best Practices for Reducing Waste: On the Road to Sustainability

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Course Code	SC110
Duration	1 day
Start and End Time	8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Location	Humber College, North Campus
Course Description	Customers and your employees now expect your company to make significant efforts to reduce your environmental impact and become more sustainable and meet your legal obligations. Reducing waste can save money by reducing resource and logistics costs. Diverting wastes takes valuable resources out of the landfill into recycling and reuse streams, but this is not enough. The course will help you develop an understanding of your waste streams, opportunities for diversion and reduction, how to meet your legal requirements and how to develop an effective program that increases your profitability and puts you on the road to sustainability.
Learning Objectives	Using current case studies, best practice examples and hands-on activities you will: Evaluate conventional waste management practices in the context of sustainability. Understand how to identify and assess your non hazardous waste streams. Identify your legal requirements for managing wastes. Understand how to design and carry out a waste audit at your facility. Prepare an effective waste reduction work plan. Make a solid business case for waste reduction and waste diversion strategies. Establish the right metrics for measuring progress against your waste reduction, reuse and recycling goals. Identify the 10 most impactful waste reduction and diversion opportunities in your operation.
Trainer and Subject Matter Expert	Paul van der Werf, M.Sc., MCIWM, President and Owner of 2cg Inc. (www.2cg.ca) and its sister company "my green workplace" (www.mygreenworkplace.ca), was educated at the University of Guelph, where he received a BSc (Agr) in 1988 and a M.Sc., in 1992. He has been providing consulting services to the public and private sectors in Canada, Europe and the Caribbean, since 1996. These companies provide environmental consulting services including waste auditing and waste diversion planning as well as recognized compost and recycling expertise. The companies also provide related training and communications services. Paul has extensive experience in the optimization of recycling programs. This has included extensive waste auditing of residential and IC&I waste streams and the development of waste diversion plans and strategies. Clients have included operators of Manufacturing Plants, Power Plants, Breweries, Schools, and Arenas. Paul has helped clients achieve up to a 90% waste diversion rate.
Who Should Attend	This course will be of value to: Facilities Managers Purchasing Personnel Plant Managers Engineers Environmental Health and Safety Personnel Sustainability and Environmental Managers Quality Personnel, and plant personnel Anyone in the industrial, commercial and institutional sector wanting to integrate sustainability into their waste program
Course Price: Early Registration Date	$299
Course Price: Regular	$350
Sustainability Learning Centre - Continuing Education Units (contact hours)	Certificates of Participation in "Sustainability Education" will be awarded with 6 contact hours for this course.