Recyclers,

We are pleased to announce an exciting event that will take place at Tulane University on Feb. 20th (which also happens to be the height of Mardi Gras!). Our goal is to get recycling industry information and resources to small, medium, and large colleges and universities that typically would not, or can not, attend national educational forums.

If you are interested in college or high school recycling, we are eager to have you support this conference and be a part of its success as an attendee.

The National Recycling Coalition, the leader in providing information and solutions to today's solid waste and recycling problems, and the College and University Recycling Council, have banded together to conduct four solid waste and recycling conferences across the United States. Tulane University has been selected as one of these four national sites.

Tulane is pleased to have been chosen as a host site, and the Tulane Administration, Faculty, Staff and Students are taking this honor very seriously. The first conference in this series was held at Illinois State University, Bloomington, IL on October 31st. That conference was a tremendous success. We had 104 attendees with over 50 attendees completing evaluations and giving the conference a 99% favorable rating.

As you can agree, this high level of attendance and the phenomenally strong evaluations are rare for first time events, but our planning group expected this type of success from the beginning.

Our task now is to assemble recyclers and supporters in order to make the Tulane event, the second event in the series, something that meets this high standard and is a conference that our region can be proud of. To reach this goal we need strong local involvement and attendance.

Here is a preview of some of the sessions that we will have: