What we are looking for:
🔧 Active engagement from workshop leaders and plenary speakers within their sessions and throughout the entire conference.
🌎 Diversity of thought, experience and background in Zero Waste, environmental justice, and general sustainability.
💡 Innovation in waste solutions
📚 Knowledge and engagement of communities and intersectional aspects of the Global Waste Crisis.

60 min Skills Building Workshops

ex:- Leadership and student turnover
    - Volunteer Recruitment and Management
    - Grant-Writing 101
    - Maintaining Work-Life Balance (How to not get burnt out)
    - Creating Management Hierarchy for Internships or Work-Study positions
    - Social Media
    - Power-Mapping

60 min Action & Implementation Workshops

ex:- Setting up an Industrial Compost Program
    - Improving Recycling and Composting Rates
    - Campus Waste Audits
    - Standardization for Zero Waste (bins, signage, education)
    - Zero Waste Stadiums
    - Zero Waste Events
    - Zero Waste Tailgating
    - Campus Procurement for Zero Waste
    - Banning Plastic Bags, Styrofoam, or Plastic Bottles
    - Institutionalizing Zero Waste - How to set campus-wide goals
    - Campus Thrift Stores
    - Campus Free Stores
    - Students for Zero Waste Clubs


We want to accommodate you! If your idea does not fit within our structure just fill out as much as you can and we will do what we can to fit you in! The conference strucute is a bit differnt this year, see info on "Dynamic Plenaries" below. Plenary speakers will be chosen by targeted outreach. If you feel like your expertise would be better suit a plenary please email Chris@postlandfill.org

For more information about the conference including: logistics planning, overnight information for students, or other opportunities to present, table, or sponsor the conference, please feel free to contact faye@postlandfill.org at any time!

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Deadline for Proposals: July 1st


Dynamic Plenaries
In an effort to diversify the flow of presentations, delve deeper into subject content, and provide attendees with an opportunity to engage in topics at a more intimate level, we are designing our plenaries to be broken up into multiple parts for this year’s conference. Each plenary session will consist of a “Fire Round” followed by “Break-Out Groups”.

Fire Rounds will be facilitated in a similar fashion to a traditional plenary, with a mediator allowing each panel member 3 to 5 minutes to quickly and concisely speak to their specific subject matter within the plenary topic. The intention is to give audience members an overview of all of the subject matter within the larger plenary topic from which they can engage in further through break-out groups.

Each Break-Out Group will be facilitated by a Fire Round speaker, accompanied by up to 2 co-presenters who are experts in the sub-topic to guide a more intimate conversation. Break Out Groups will last roughly 45 minutes after the Fire Round.  

Plenaries:

   Global Waste Crisis:
      - Food Waste
      - Plastic Pollution & Toxicity
      - Social Inequity & Accessibility (Social Justice/EJ)
      - Landfills, Incinerators, & Inefficient Waste Infrastructure
      - Planned Obsolescence and the Consumer Economy

   Zero Waste Solutions:
      - Reuse and Repair
      - Business Innovation
      - Zero Waste Lifestyle
      - Community Engagement & Empowerment (on & off campus)