Last Call: Register now for 5th Zero Waste International Dialog, Naples, Italy, February 18-21, 2009

[Gary Liss <gary@garyliss.com>]

5^th Zero Waste International Dialog

To register: 
http://www.rifiutizero.org/index.php?option=com_facileforms&Itemid=36

Wednesday (2/18/09)
 
13.00-18.00 ZWIA organizing and future plans
(for Zero Waste International Alliance leaders and other Zero Waste advocates)
Internal meeting open to observers.

19:00 ? 21:00 Rete Nazionale Rifiuti Zero (Italian Zero Waste netwwork)

• Rossano Ercolini ? Ambiente Futuro, Introduction to National Campaignns Against Incineration
• Mario Avoletto ? Naples Health and EEnvironment Network
• Tommaso Esposito ? Acerra group

Thursday and Friday (2/19-20, 2009) - Zero Waste International Dialog

Thursday, February 19, 2009
 
08:00 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 09:30 Welcomes

• Giorgio Del Ghingaro, Mayor of Capannori for Italian Zero Waste Communities
• Gianluca Fioretti ? President of Italian Association oof Virtuous Municipalities.
• Sabina Laddaga ? Representative of Naples nongovernmment organizations (NGOs) 

09:30 - 10:40 Regional reports on Zero Waste policies, programs, practices and facilities implemented by communities in Italy. 
Speakers throughout day highlight successes in their region and what are key policies, programs and facilities for communities to adopt to move forward to get to Zero Waste. 

• Enzo Favoino, Scuola Agraria del Parco di Monza (Moderator)
• Alessio Ciacci, Counsilor Of Capannori Municipality
• Patrizia Lo Sciuto ? Sicily
• Paolo Contò, Director of Priula waste management company ?Treviso

10:40 -11:00 Break

11:00 Regional Reports - Europe

• The Netherlands - Anne Sche inberg, Solid Waste Consulting Group WASTE
• Wales, UK ? Mal Williams, Cylch-Wales Community Recyclling Network
• Catalonia, Spain ? Representative, CEPA
• Scotland, UK ? Jeni Mackay, CATS
• U.K. - Maxine Narburgh, Bright Green [East of England]
• Bulgaria - Ivaylo Hlebarov, Activities for Zero Waste in Bulgaria

12:30 Lunch
 
13:10 ? 13:45 How to Stop Trashing the Climate through Zero Waste

• Brenda Platt, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Washington, DC
• 13:45 - 15:15 Regional Reports
• Western US, Mexico and South America - Rick Anthony
• Tania Levy, City of Berkeley, Zero Waste in San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
• Eastern US and Canada - Brenda Platt
• Ann Schneider, Sierra Club Zero Waste Committee, â??Organizing the Grassroots to pursue Zero Waste
• Noman Fazali, United Arab Emirates, Report from Africa

15:15 - 15:35 Break

15:35 - 17:00 Continuation of Regional Reports

• Sonia Mendoza, Philippines
• Gerardo Calderon, Executive Director, National Solid Waste Management Commission,  Philippines
• Jaya Kumar Chelaton, Thanal, Kovalam, India
• Mal Williams - Australia and  New Zealand

17:00 - 18:00 Discussion of Commonalities and Lessons Learned about how to adopt Zero Waste goal, what's included in Zero Waste policies and plans, and how to implement Zero Waste policies, plans and programs.
 
18:00 - 19:00 Dinner
 
19:00 ? 21:00 Dinner Presentation: "Health Risks of Incinerators"

• Paul Connett, Emeritus Professor of chemistry at St Lawrence University, NY
• Ernesto Burgio, Italian Scientific Committee of International Society of Doctors for Environment

21:00 - 23:00 Rally of Italian networks for health and environment

• Fabrizio Bertini (no-inc) Moderator
• Giorgio Ferrari (anti-nukes movement) 

Friday, February 20, 2009
 
08:30 ? 9:00 Registration

09:00 ? 10:30 Businesses Leading the Way to Zero Waste - Many businesses have diverted over 90% of their manufacturing waste from landfills and incinerators:

• Rick Anthony, Zero Waste Business Case Studies
• Prof. Luigi Bistagnino, Dean of Faculty of Architecture in Turin, "Slow Food ? Salone del Gusto and Terra Madre 2008"
• ST Microelectrics, Pasquale Pistorio, CEO. (invited)

10:30 - 10:50 Break
 
10:50 - 12:15 Proposals for Zero Waste Community Principles
(for communities to adopt to get to Zero Waste.)
Facilitators - Paulo Guarnaccia and Paul Connett.

• Rick Anthony, Presentation of Draft Zero Waste Community Principles

Roundtable Discussion about Zero Waste Community Principles

• Rossano Ercolini
• Joan Marc Simon
• Sonia Mendoza
• Maxine Narburgh
• Jaya Kumar Chelaton

12:15 - Lunch

12:40 - 13:30 Show "The Story of Stuff", and discussion about movie, over lunch.
 
13:30 - 15:00 Audience Participation and Moderated Discussion on Zero Waste Community Principles.
 
15:00 - 15:30 Break

15:30 - 17:00 Moderated Discussion and Adoption of Zero Waste Community Principles.
 
18:00 Demonstration Supporting A Zero Waste Strategy In Naples. (under the palace of a local minister - give Zero Waste Community Principles and invite him to meet with us on Saturday afternoon - videotape this)
 
19:00 Dinner
 
20:00 Zero Waste Italian Network session on toxic waste traffic in Naples and Campania Region.

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