World Café Session #1: Zero Waste Infrastructure Design - Resource Recovery Parks

World Café Session #1: Zero Waste Infrastructure Design - Resource Recovery Parks

A pre-event survey will be sent to registrants to complete approximately 3 weeks prior to the World Café.

In 2001, the California Integrated Waste Management Board funded a case commissioned a model study on this topic: “Resource Recovery Parks: A Model for Local Government Recycling and Waste Reduction.” Resource recovery parks address that portion of materials that are largely unaddressed by state and local policy — commercial self-haul and drop box materials. These unregulated material streams are a significant and growing portion of what is landfilled and incinerated in California. For example, only 62 percent of material landfilled from Oakland and only 68 percent of material landfilled from San Francisco in 2022, came from their exclusive collection service providers. California is home to a number of resource recovery parks including those at the Cold Canyon Landfill in San Luis Obispo, ReGen Monterey in Marina, and the "serial" resource recovery park in Berkeley that includes Urban Ore.

This World Café will strive to identify the barriers and opportunities for establishing resource recovery parks and transfer stations and landfills throughout California. The Global Recycling Council of CRRA is proud to host this World Café. 

Pre-registration is required. Participants must be registered for the conference in order to register for a World Café session.