About the Event
TOOLS TO ANSWER THE BIG QUESTION! - What’s a Compost Manufacturer to Do? Pros and Cons to Accepting Compostable Products
The final event of the Compostable Products Series will give you the tools to answer the BIG question, should we accept compostable products and the fallout from that decision. USCC Executive Director Frank Franciosi kicks off this end cap event. We will hear the pros and cons from composters around the country. The summit will end with a wrap up of BPI’s roadmap and action plan presented by Rhodes Yepsen and the future of compostables as seen by the USCC’s Corporate Compost Leadership Council with Advocacy, Director Linda Norris-Waldt.
Cost: Members - $45 / Non-Members - $95 / Non-Member Composters - $70
* Included Single 2 hour event, Live Q&A with panelists, Recordings Available
About the Speakers
Frank Franciosi - USCC Executive Director
Frank Franciosi
Frank Franciosi is the current Executive Director of both the Composting Council Research & Education Foundation and the US Composting Council. He has spent over 28 years working with residuals management and composting both in operations management as well as sales and marketing. In 1993, he started North Carolina’s first source separated organics composting facility.
Rhodes Yepsen - Executive Director of the Biodegradable Products Institute
Linda Norris Waldt
Linda Norris-Waldt is Communications Director for the US Composting Council, and has been in the recycling industry for 30 years, having spent 10 years as the recycling manager for Frederick County, MD. Linda began her career as a local newspaper reporter before becoming a business communicator, 17 of those for manufacturing companies.
Rhodes Yepsen
Rhodes Yepsen is Executive Director of the Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI), a non-profit advocating for the value of compostable products in diverting organic waste to composting. Yepsen is passionate about systems-based solutions, specifically the synergy in solving for food waste and packaging at the same time – to address climate change, ecosystem impacts, and regenerative agriculture. He has served on the Board of USCC, is an advisor to several sustainable packaging groups, and was an editor and writer at BioCycle magazine.
Linda Norris Waldt - USCC Advocacy, Corporate Relations & Chapter Relations Director
PLEASE NOTE: Attendee may receive USCC Certification Commission credit when they attend.
Want to learn more about the workshops and summit? Visit the USCC website for more information.