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Conference

Southern California SWANA Workshop

Discovery Cube
2500 N Main St, Santa Ana, CA 92705

Date:         September 12, 2024

Time:         8:00 am to 2:00 pm

SWANA Southern California Founding Chapter Fall Workshop

“Key Issues Facing the Solid Waste Industry: Policy, Procurement, and Safety”

Workshop Schedule

8:00AM - 9:00AM

9:00AM - 9:15AM

Registration, Coffee, Continental Breakfast

President’s Message and Conference Welcome
Michelle Leonard, SWANA SoCal Board President

John Carlton, SWANA SoCal Board Member

9:15AM - 9:30AM

Scholarship Presentation
Haley Kunert, SWANA SoCal Board Secretary and Scholarship Committee Member

Executing a Circular Economy Model and Sustainable Practices In Medical Device Manufacturing
Dana Laosiri

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9:30AM - 10:00AM

Building and Sustaining a Culture of Workplace Safety
Haney Hana, WM

10:00AM - 11:30AM

Focusing on Extended Producer Responsibility

  • Textiles (SB 707) - Sheen Sidhu, District Representative for
    Senator Josh Newman, Senate District 29

  • HHW (SB 1143) - Jordan Wells, National Stewardship Action Council

  • Plastics (SB 54) – Doug Kobold, California Product Stewardship Council

11:30AM - NOON

Meeting the SB 1383 Procurement Challenge
Michelle Duron, City of Fullerton

NOON - 1:30PM

12:30PM - 1:30PM

1:30PM - 2:00PM

Lunch

Keynote: CalRecycle Update
Zoe Heller, Director, CalRecycle

Closing Remarks:
John Carlton, SWANA SoCal Board Member

2:00PM - 3:00PM

Unguided tour/networking at the Discovery Cube

Registration Fees:

  • $99 Members​

  • ​$129 Non Members

Sponsorship Opportunities:

Sponsorship and exhibit spaces are available.

We offer a Keynote Sponsor and General Sponsor.
The Keynote Sponsor will receive credit during the Keynote address.

Keynote and General Sponsors will have their logo displayed during the conference. Exhibitors will be provided a table space and will be included as a General Sponsor with their logo displayed during the workshop. Please email info@socalswana.org to reserve a sponsorship.

  • Keynote Sponsor ~ $1,000

  • Exhibitor and General Sponsor ~ $1,500

  • General Sponsor ~ $500

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