Calendar Release: Zero Waste Conference San Diego

Posted Tuesday 02-02-2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

MEDIA CONTACT:
Adriana Herrera
ERA Communications
(619) 573-9372 office

Zero Waste Business Conference - San Diego
** Don't Let Your Bottom Line Go to Waste**

WHAT:
Strengthen your company's bottom line. Learn Zero Waste strategies that will increase profitability, benefit the environment, and increase public health. Top business and environmental experts will discuss alternatives for reducing or eliminating waste, including redesign, reuse, recycling, and composting. Keynote speakers include: Chief Deputy Director California Department of Resources, Recycling, and Recovery (CalRecycle) Margo Reid Brown; Toyota Environmental Resource Specialist Ryan McMullan; and Founder of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation/ discoverer of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Charles Moore.

Zero Waste San Diego and the Earth Resource Foundation present a one-day conference on the best practices in reducing business waste streams. Walk-away with strategies to:

- reduce cost of waste management
- increase savings in consumption of energy and materials
- lower distribution costs
- improve corporate image of environmental performance among regulators,
customers and the public

Enjoy networking with leading San Diego business professionals, an awards luncheon, and post conference cocktail hour.

WHO:
San Diego business professionals, executives, owners, and general public

Registration and Deadlines
- Early registration through February 5th $225; Government/ Non-profits $75
- After February 5th: $275; Government/ non-profits: $100

Register on line at www.earthresource.org or call (949) 645-5163

WHEN:
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
8:00 a.m. - 5 p.m.

WHERE:
Marina Village
1936 Quivira Way
San Diego, CA

INFO:
Please call the Earth Resource office at (949) 645-5163 or visit www.earthresource.org

About Earth Resource Foundation:
Founded in 1999, Earth Resource Foundation is an environmental, educational, non-profit organization developed to empower the general public with the resources needed to make environmentally sustainable choices and changes. The ERF mission is to redirect available human, technological, monetary and academic resources to preserve, conserve, and restore the Earth's natural systems to a sustainable and healthy state.

About Zero Waste San Diego:
Zero Waste San Diego's mission is to create, promote and implement programs that maximize management and conservation of resources, reduce greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming, and persuade citizens, businesses, and governments in the San Diego County region to adopt a zero waste philosophy.

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