Reaching Critical Masses: Creating Political Support for Recycling
National Recycling Coalition 2005 Congress - Presentation from Harvey Gershman

Whether in front of the town board of selectmen, the city council or the state legislature, recycling professionals must become savvy communicators who can defend public investments in recycling. Harvey Gershman, GBB President, was part of a panel of 5 recycling advocates discussing how to successfully use various tactics in the political arena to build and expand support for recycling.

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Issues with Transitioning to Automated
SWANA Collection Symposium 2005 - Presentation from Kevin Callen

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Using Routing Software for Analyzing Residential Collection Costs, Defining Procurement Areas and Routing
SWANA Collection Symposium 2004 - Presentation from Kevin Callen

Route optimization software is a sophisticated analytical tool for not only creating routes for collection vehicles, but also for analyzing collection costs and facilitating procurements for contract collection services. The traditional approach to analyzing collection costs and defining districts or procurement areas has been to use industry thumb rules, such as an average number of stops for a route per day. However, these industry thumb rules are typically not accurate on an individual route basis, as the number of stops and mileage can vary greatly based on the population density and distance from the depot and disposal facilities to the route. Routing software accurately defines individual routes, number of trucks required, and the mileage and labor required to service an area.

This paper reviews the experiences of using FleetRoute route optimization software for use in analyzing residential waste collection costs and planning procurements for contract collection services. Case studies include Nashville, Tennessee and an undisclosed county in the Mid-Atlantic. These projects were conducted by WasteBid.com, Inc. under sub-contract with Gershman, Brickner & Bratton, Inc.

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Harvey Gershman, Speaker
"Future of Waste Management in the U.S."

Tuesday, April 13, 2010
1:30 to 3:00pm
Harvey Gershman, Moderator
"Compatibility of Waste-To-Energy and Recycling Programs"

Tuesday, May 4, 2010
10:15 to 11:45am
Harvey Gershman, Speaker
"The Resurgence of Waste-to-Energy and Conversion Technologies"

Wednesday, May 5, 2010
9:00 to 11:45am
Chace Anderson, Speaker
"What is Zero Waste?"

Tuesday, May 11, 2010
2:30 to 3:00pm
Bob Brickner, Speaker
"Behind the Scenes: Historic Agreement to Develop U.S Virgin Islands First Alternative Energy"

Thursday, May 13, 2010
9:30 to 10:00am
Harvey Gershman, Speaker
"The Latest and Greatest on the Resurgence of Waste-to-Energy and Conversion Technologies"

Tuesday, May 18, 2010
9:45 to 11:15am
Mary-Jane Atwater, Speaker
Outreach and Education Session "When You Need Community Support: Making Informed Decisions Using Low-Cost Research"

Sunday, August 15th, 2010
2:00-3:00 pm
Bob Brickner, Speaker
"Saving 15% and Beating High Fuel Collection Costs- One contract better than 12 for authority outside Detroit, MI"

Sunday, August 15th, 2010
3:30-5:00pm
Harvey Gershman, Speaker
"The Latest & Greatest on the Resurgence of WTE and Conversion Technologies"