SWANA is working on industry comments as we speak. They will be joint comments from SWANA and National Waste & Recycling Association. They are due October 26. You are welcome to send and/or use this draft yourself. 

There are two choices.  

• Use the draft comments to craft your own and in doing so, you are welcome to use whatever you want and even plagiarize. 
  
• Review the draft comments and prepare a concurrence letter or letter of support for the industry comments;.
  

The more the merrier in terms of entities supporting industry comments. The final industry comments will likely be down to the wire and it will be too late for entities to wait to see those before they do anything.

Congratulations to Robyn Williams with Greenville County, SC.

She is the recipient of the Young Professionals Scholarship to the Quad State Conference in Pigeon Forge, TN September 22-25, 2015. The scholarship includes conference registration and hotel accommodations.

Robyn is the Accounting Specialist / Office Manager at the Greenville County landfill (a.k.a Twin Chimneys Landfill) in Honea Path, SC.

The call for proposals is now open for three of the events at the heart of SWANApalooza next year.

 

Your ideas for forward-thinking, thought-provoking topics, delivered in a format that engages the audience in conversation, are eagerly welcomed.

 

Be bold, be different and be distinctive to capture the attention of the proposal reviewers on the Technical Division program committees!

 

Click on the conference where you want to submit a proposal.

 

Landfill Gas and Biogas Symposium                      

Landfill Symposium

Road to Zero Waste Conference

 

Proposal reviews will take place in July and August, with speaker invitations expected to be issued in September.

 

For more info, contact:  Sue Bumpous

A new bill was introduced in the SC Senate on June 4, 2015 that amends the Solid Waste Policy & Management Act to include a new section that would require high rises and multi-family buildings constructed after Jan 1, 2017 to include recycling infrastructure along with the waste disposal infrastructure. The Bill can be found here.

Read more here: 

https://swana.org/News/NewsDetail.aspx?nc=245

 

 

Deadline to register for a SWANA Certification exam is April 17.

For more info, go here

 

 

 

The SWANA SC Chapter will be providing a testing site on May 6, 2015 at Pawleys Plantation for anyone needing to take a SWANA Certification Exam. Please let us know by April 10, 2015 which exam you would like to take. Email us at: info@scswana.org 

 

We are not offering SWANA Certification classes on May 6. Only providing an exam site. 

 

If you wish to attend the SWANA SC Chapter Spring Conference at Pawleys Plantation May 6-8, you must register for that separately.

For more info, go to: SWANA Certification

Have an abstract for a presentation? Have an idea of a topic that we should find an expert? Please let us know.

 

Please submit your abstract or topic idea to: info@scswana.org

 

Submit by March 6, 2015. 

 

The SWANA South Carolina Palmetto Chapter Board would like to sponsor any young professionals in the solid waste industry to attend the SWANA SC Palmetto Chapter Spring Conference to be held May 6-8, 2015 at Pawleys Plantation in Pawleys Island, SC. 

 

For those interested in this great opportunity, please email a brief, one page letter to info@scswana.org expressing your interest by March 18, 2015. 

 

For more info can be found here.

The U.S. Environmental Protection agency extended the comment deadline on its proposed greenhouse gas rule for existing power plants by 45 days to December 1.  The extension comes in response to requests from several lawmakers who said more time is needed to deal with the complex proposed rule, which sets individual carbon dioxide reduction goals for each state. The agency originally proposed a 120-day comment period in recognition of the complexity and broad range of issues at play. The agency is adding 45 days “to get the best possible advice and data to inform the final rule,” according to EPA.