2022 RCA Conference in Review
Thank you to everyone who made this year’s conference a huge success!
Lions and tigers and bears oh my! Well; maybe not tigers and bears, but definitely a few brave lions, a flying monkey and Dorothys, Totos and Tin Men too. And that was just Thursday night!
There were many engaging presentations and inspiring speakers at the RCA’s “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” annual Circular Economy Conference on October 19-21 in the majesty and serenity of Jasper, Alberta.
EPR, technology, organics and innovations in circular economies were just a few of the educational, informative and inspiring topics presented. Food waste expert and cookbook author Christine Tizzard teamed with the chefs at Jasper Park Lodge to peek behind the culinary curtain of Oz and showed participants how to make amazing gourmet meals using food scraps while other participants got a behind-the-curtains tour of JPL’s award-winning sustainability program. Of course, no conference is complete without a brewery tour, giant lollipops, lots of networking and opportunities to catch up with colleagues.
The conference also featured two remarkable keynote speakers who covered developments in circular economies from California to the Cosmos. Heidi Sanborn, the Founding Director of the California Product Stewardship Council and The National Stewardship Council provided an amazing and inspiring overview of the many circular economy concepts being implemented and embraced in California while Emma Cain Loudin provided an eye-opening and thought-provoking overview of a habitat we may not think of when it comes to circular economies. Emma is an Astrophysicist with a Ph.D. from Yale University who challenged everyone’s perspective and engaged their imagination taking us on a trip down the yellow brick road all the way into space itself!
The RCA would like to thank the sponsors, presenters and participants who made this year’s conference a huge success and we look forward to seeing you in Kansas next year. Whoops, we mean Lake Louise.
