RISN Regional Meeting - Creating Greater Value Out of Arizona's Waste Feedstock

The Resource Innovation and Solutions Network (RISN) invites you to attend its first regional meeting and workshop. Attendees will present and discuss approaches to regional waste feedstock and other future collaborations to develop Arizona’s circular economy.

An exciting, emerging concept in the world of sustainability and economic development is “circular economy,” an approach based on the idea that “there is no waste.”   In this philosophy, all waste streams can be used in industrial processes to create valuable products, co-products and energy.  One barrier that has been identified by local, national and international experts is the ability to aggregate feedstocks as required to support development of “waste to resource” business models.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together public works and other government stakeholders from municipalities across the Phoenix metropolitan region to identify necessary resources, potential barriers and solutions in streamlining the state’s waste reduction and create new economies based on waste.

Who should attend?

Public Works Directors, Municipal Solid Waste Directors and Sustainability Champions