Example Agenda

Day 1

Arrival at one of Boulder's Zero Waste hotels, either the Boulder Outlook Hotel or the St. Julien Hotel.

8:00AM	Meet in the hotel lobby to coordinate carpooling to start the morning at Boulder's recycling center.
8:30AM	Discussion with Steve Kurowski, Marketing Manager for Eco-Products, Inc.
9:00AM	Tour of the Boulder County Recycling and discussion of single stream recycling, processing issues, economics of the recycling center.
10:00AM	CHaRM (Center for Hard to Recycle Materials) (Electronics, Styrofoam, athletic shoes, textiles, etc.) Plus the question and answer time with Eric Lombardi, Executive Director of Eco-cycle Inc.
NOON	Lunch at Old Chicago, a Zero Waste restaurant (and meeting with manager and tour of the kitchen and recycling and composting bins).
2:00PM	City of Boulder Environmental Affairs office: Policy discussion and tours with Jonathon Koehn, Environmental Affairs Manager.
4:00PM	Will Toor, Boulder County Commissioner and former mayor of Boulder who was instrumental in the implementation of Boulder's Zero Waste Resolution. Commissioner Toor will discuss sustainability issues of Boulder County, and the role of government in promoting the Zero Waste concepts and programs.
FREE TIME	I recommend an evening on the Pearl St. Mall since we'll be on this lively and entertaining pedestrian mall, and/or I can recommend a Zero Waste restaurant for your evening meal.

8:30AM	Every meet everyone at the hotel lobby.
9:00AM	Boulder County Jail Compost Center.
9:30	Western Disposal: meet with Gary Horton, President, and Bryce Isaacson, VP of Marketing and Sales for discussion of business services, hauler's regulations, etc. Tour of composting operations, transfer station, etc.
11:00AM	ReSource (A used building materials reuse facility.) Tour and question and answer session with Spencer Villwock, Deputy Director for the center of Resource Conservation.
Noon	Zero Waste Box lunch
2:00PM	Visit to a Boulder school to witness the day-to-day operations of school recycling and discussion of Eco-cycle's award-winning school recycling program.
4:00PM	Discussion of county recycling and Zero Waste programs (PDF)