Press Release:
Contact: Margie Bushman
Coordinator SBCC Center for Sustainability
(805) 965-0581, ext 2177, email: msbushman@sbcc.edu
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 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 ìwaste,î 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.
Sponsored by the SBCC Center for
Sustainability
Event Info: Margie (805) 965-0581, ext 2177, email
msbushman@sbcc.edu; http://sustainability.sbcc.edu
Co-Sponsors: SB Independent, Santa Barbara
Permaculture Network, LoaTree, Hopedance Media, Nutiva, Teeccino,
Island Seed & Feed, Sustainable Vocations, Surfers Without
Borders,Green2Gold & Ultimate Bagels
More Info/Websites/YouTubes:
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 News:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rnmposUN4A
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
http://kboo.fm/node/25693
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
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