Evening Talk, March 25, 7-9:30pm 2011
Keynote Speaker, Albe Zakes from TerraCycle, Inc.
SBCC Campus, Fe Bland Auditorium, West Campus
Admission $5


Event info: http://sustainability.sbcc.edu
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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
PS 101 Building, SBCC East Campus

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.

TerraCycle segment Discovery Channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fpTVF-3uFQ&feature=related

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.  A new BTTR Venture product, the Grow Your Own Mushroom Garden kit, is carried in Whole Foods Markets nationwide. Since starting BTTR Ventures more than 10,000 pounds of coffee grounds per week have been diverted from the waste stream, being paid by local coffee shops to take the coffee grounds away.  Trash to cash, they are proud of creating & providing jobs in their urban community. Founders Nikhil Arora and Alex Velez were named "Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25" by Businessweek.

BTTR Ventures on BBC World News:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rnmposUN4A

 

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.

 

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