The Circular Economy: Garbage, Resource Efficiency, and Waste Management for Fun and Profit

Why Should You Attend:

• What is a circular economy?
• How can it improve your business resilience?
• Is your company looking for good arguments to embrace circular business models, and wanting to find out more about the changes that might imply?
• Are you curious to learn from other players in the circular field?
• What is the regulatory landscape as governments and businesses work to implement resource efficiency and waste management in the United States?

In this interactive webinar, the instructor will walk attendees through the new circular economy, enumerate management tools for compliance, and examine a new regulatory framework that will help implement the circular economy.

Learning Objectives:

• How the circular economy is different from “sustainability” or “recycling”
• Defining the circular economy
• Regulatory and policy trends to create a circular economy
• Business models already implementing resource efficiency and waste management
• Infrastructure requirements and business opportunities
• The role of big data and consumer engagement in developing a circular business strategy

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Regulations that are currently in place to implement the circular economy
• New regulations and policy objectives that will drive a rapid move towards a circular economy
• Overview of the circular economy, its history, and viability
• International and national efforts to incorporate the circular economy
• Understand opportunities and ideas to realistically incorporate a circular strategy in your business
• Make the business case for a circular strategy

Who Will Benefit:

• Small business owners
• Sustainable development consultancies
• Environmental and corporate attorneys
• Regulators
• Managers - water and waste water management
• Operations managers
• Utilities managers
• Local and state government officials responsible for compliance with environmental laws

Instructor Profile:

Since the early 1990’s, Tamar Cerafici has been helping the regulated community understand how complex environmental laws affect their bottom line. Attorney Cerafici is an internationally recognized leader and legal specialist in the often complex and challenging nuclear regulatory industry. She has been at the forefront of the industry in building regulatory and policy framework for a new generation of nuclear plants. She was a major contributor to the first Early Site Permit granted under 10 CFR Part 52, successfully implementing alternative site analyses that have become the general standard.

She is an expert witness. In nuclear regulator practice, Ms. Cerafici resolved disputes with the NRC and defended environmental challenges for new plants. She has testified as an expert witness before the Atomic Safety Licensing Board as well as in NRC public meetings. As an environmental lawyer, she has worked closely with legislators, regulators and owners to develop unique management strategies for hazardous materials, including high-level nuclear waste cleanup.

Ms. Cerafici has spoken in the U.S. and abroad on issues surrounding nuclear power plant development, environmental impact, and public policy.

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