NNE SWANA

Solid Waste Association of North America

SWANA Strategic Plan Town Hall – Goal 1 – Get off the Top 10 list of most dangerous jobs!

Dear NNE SWANA Chapter Members:

Please consider participating in SWANA’s upcoming Strategic Plan Town Hall session on March 23 at 2pm. [click here to add this event to your calendar]

Great news is that the waste & recycling industry is out of the Top 5 most dangerous jobs and recently dropped from 6th to 7th!!!

Goal now is to get out of the Top Ten (see below).

The Town Hall format is being used to communicate SWANA’s strategic plans for the future of Solid Waste ANA.

 Your Friendly Neighborhood NNE Safety Ambassador,

Al Sabino

Vice President of Acquisitions & Transportation

Casella Waste Systems, Inc

Event Registration – SWANA Strategic Plan Town Hall –

Goal 1 – Get off the Top 10 list of most dangerous jobs

Date: Thursday, March 23, 2023

Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time

 [click here to add to calendar]

Description:

GET OFF THE TOP 10 LIST OF MOST DANGEROUS JOBS

Link   https://swana.org/community/leadership-resources/governance-resources/strategic-plan

  • Suzanne Sturgeon, SWANA Safety Committee Chair
  • Michael Hughes, SWANA New York Chapter Safety Ambassador
  • David Biderman, CEO & Executive Director
  • Jesse Maxwell, Advocacy & Safety Senior Manager

SWANA’s five-year Strategic Plan – Forward Together, identifies four goals to focus SWANA’s work in the coming years. Throughout 2023, SWANA will be holding virtual town halls on each goal to discuss the objectives and strategies necessary to accomplish them and solicit input from members on how best to do so.

The first town hall will address Goal 1 of the Strategic Plan, to get off the Top 10 list of most dangerous jobs. SWANA members are invited to learn more about how this goal was chosen and the ways that the association plans to achieve it over the next five years. Objectives include developing resources to support employer safety programs and collaboration with government agencies and other partners.

Learn more about the Strategic Plan here and join us as we plan for a safer future

Register Here

We are very excited about the upcoming Networking and Technical Session, hosted by Region 8 SWANA (New York, Northern New England & Southern New England).

The networking session will be held on Tuesday, February 28th, from 6:30pm – 8:30pm at UMass Amherst, in the Hadley Room located in the Murray D. Lincoln Campus Center at One Campus Center Way, Amherst, MA 01003.

The Technical Session “The State of Recycling” is scheduled for March 1, 2023, and will also take place at the Campus Center in the Amherst Room Campus Center.

There will be a Continental Breakfast at 7:15am with the Technical Session starting at 8:00am.  Provided below is the agenda for the meeting as well as a map of the campus.

There will also be signage providing directions to the Hadley Room & the Amherst Room.

The State of Recycling-Region 8 Tech Session 03-01-2023

Directions:

Travel to Commonwealth Avenue. At the set of lights near the Mullins Center (our large sports/entertainment arena), turn onto Campus Center Way. The Campus Center Parking Garage is adjacent to the Murray D. Lincoln Campus Center.

Lincoln Campus_Parking_Map

 

 

 

 

The Northern New England Chapter of SWANA has been hard at work this year and want to invite you to our fall/annual meeting for 2022

on November 17, 2022 from 10:30 am to 3:30 pm.

This will be our first regular in-person meeting since the pandemic so we picked a more festive location –

Newicks Lobster House in Dover, NH.

In addition to having time to get reacquainted in person, we want to focus on our membership and will be having a series of discussions of what we do as a chapter and plans for the future – both continuing our regular programming and new ideas.

Please click here to register for the event on Eventbrite.

We hope you can join us for our I SWANA Lobster event!

Tentative Program Schedule

If you have questions, please contact current NNE SWANA President Paul Schmidt, P.E., at pcschmidt@cmaengineers.com /603-431-6196 or our administrative assistant, Reilly Leith at rleith@cmaengineers.com /603-431-6196.

CONGRATULATIONS Panagiota Stamatopoulou & Cassandra Lafleur!

The Northern New England Chapter of SWANA is pleased to announce that they have selected two winners of this year’s Steve Parker Memorial Scholarship. The recipients were selected based on their stellar resumes and proven interest and commitment to the Solid Waste industry. Each recipient received $1000 toward their future education.

Cassandra Lafleur of Dover, NH will be attending the University of New Hampshire this fall. She is enrolled in the Chemical Engineering/ Materials Science & Engineering major and was influential in helping her high school switch from single-use plastic to metal cutlery in their cafeteria to help reduce waste production.

Panagiota Stamatopoulou is an Environmental Engineering, Ph.D. student at the University of Vermont who has already co-authored numerous solid waste-related journal articles and assisted in the preparation of waste management plans for Greek municipalities. Panagiota is also a student member of SWANA.

We congratulate each recipient on their award and look forward to seeing the impact each one will make on our industry in the future.