NJ Recycling Training and Compost Operator Certification Courses: 2014-15

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If you want to become a Certified Recycling Professional (CRP) in New Jersey, Rutgers offers a 4-day alternate recycling certification program for those who have previous municipal experience. We also run several continuing education courses approved for Certified Recycling Professional recertification credits, including Recycling Health & Safety, Sustainability Management, Preparing Recycling Tonnage Reports, and Recycling Public Policy. Spring and Fall sessions of the NJ Compost Operator Certification course are also available. For more information about these recycling courses, see brochure or visit http://www.cpe.rutgers.edu/programs/recycling_solid_waste.html.

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    Recycling Health & Safety September 10, 2014 (12:30 - 3:45 pm)

    New Jersey Compost Operator Certi cation2 Sessions: September 30, 2014 or May 5, 2015

    Understanding Sustainability ManagementNovember 13, 2014

    Preparing Recycling Tonnage ReportsFebruary 6, 2015 (8:30 am - 12:00 noon)

    Recycling Public PolicyMarch 19, 2015

    The Alternate Recycling Certi cationSeriesMarch 24, 31 & April 7 & 14, 2015

    CRPs - Become a Certi ed Sustainable Resource Management Professional -

    see inside for details!

    Recycling Health and SafeySeptember 10, 2014 Time: 12:30 - 3:45 pm Registration fee: $95 Course code: ER0108CA15

    Course Instructor: Howard SpencerCRPs earn three (3) classroom recert cation credits

    Workers involved in the recycling eld face a variety of health and safety issues on a daily basis. This half-day course was developed to present information on these hazards and to outline the good practices that everyone should participate in to make the workplace safe. Speci c topics include:

    Hazards associated with recycling Regulatory requirements Worker safety and equipment ( eld and facility) Equipment maintenance procedures/recordkeeping Emergency planning/plans (including hazardous wastes) and How to make a recycling facility the safest it can be (including public access and drop-o issues).

    Sustainable Resource Management Professional Certi cation

    Certi ed Recycling Professionals (CRPs) now have the option of earning a new national certi cation, Sustainable Resource Management Professional (SRMP), by completing two new courses: Recycling Health & Safety and Understanding Sustainability Management. Earning this new certi cation is completely voluntary.

    Already a CRP? If you have already completed the CRP program (either through the full or alternate series) and are currently certi ed, you can earn the SRMP certi cation by completing Recycling Health & Safety and Understanding Sustainability Management (both mentioned in this brochure). Both programs o er CRP and Certi ed Public Works Manager (CPWM) recerti cation credits as well. Aside from the cost of attending the two courses, there are no other fees to become an SRMP and the recerti cation process will remain unchanged.

    For more details, please visit the recycling portion of OCPEs website (www. cpe.rutgers.edu).

    New Jersey Compost Operator Certi cationSeptember 30, 2014 Course code: ER0303CA15May 5, 2015 Course code: ER0303CB15

    Course Instructor: Wayne DeFeoRegistration fee: $275 Multi fee: $240N.J.A.C. 7:26A - 1.4(a)(14)(xiv) states that all operators of composting facilities in New Jersey must attend a composting course....approved by the Department. The NJAES O ce of Continuing Professional Education, in conjunction with the NJ Department of Environmental Protection and in cooperation with the Association of New Jersey Recyclers, has developed a course which meets the requirements of the regulations and will help you to improve your facilitys operation. Speci c topics will include:

    NJDEP regulatory requirements

    The scienti c principles of composting, or Why compost happens

    How to avoid Murphys Law of composting and what to do when the law strikes (health and odor issues).

    This course is approved for 5.5 technical credits for Certi ed This course is approved for 5.5 technical credits for Certi ed Public Works Managers (CPWM) and 6.0 credits forPublic Works Managers (CPWM) and 6.0 credits for

    New Jersey Certi ed Recycling Professionals (CRPs). New Jersey Certi ed Recycling Professionals (CRPs).

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    - FOUR CONVENIENT WAYS TO REGISTER -Phone: 732.932.9271, M-F 8:00AM - 4:30PM. Please have your Visa,

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    Fax: 732.932.8726, 24 Hours. Please include credit card information or copy of your check, money order or purchase order with your fax.

    Mail: Registration Desk, NJAES O ce of Continuing Professional Education, Rutgers University, 102 Ryders Lane, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8519. Please make check payable to: Rutgers University

    Web: www.cpe.rutgers.edu

    Payment Policy - All students must have prearranged for payment to beadmitted to the class (purchase order, check, VISA, Mastercard, Discover American Express or money order).

    Cancellation & Substitution Policy - Registrants may withdraw in writing from a class up to (3) three full working days before a course begins and receive a full refund, less any materials fee or as otherwise noted on the course webpage. If the O ce of Continuing Professional Education is not noti ed in writing at least three working days prior to the start of class, registrants may be responsible for the full fee. Substitutions are permitted.

    Understanding Sustainability ManagementNovember 13, 2014 Course code: ER0113CA15 Registration fee: $145 Multi fee: $120

    Course Coordinator: Gray RussellCRPs earn six (6) classroom recerti cation credits

    This program was developed to help individuals better understand how economic activity and the programmatic decisions it drives may impact the health of the environment and society. The course examines how and why natural resources are often undervalued or ignored completely by traditional accounting practices and economic data. It also will discuss why natural assets, such as clean air and water, tend to be abused precisely because they are the common property of society at large. Speci c topics will include:

    What is sustainabilityand why should we care? Why people, communities and nations overwhelm natural resources Global climate changereal numbers and predicted costs Industrial ecologyhow does it t in Systems analysis and process improvementevaluating what YOU do.

    Preparing Recycling Tonnage ReportsFebruary 6, 2015 (AM Only)

    Registration fee: $50 Course code: ER0313CA15

    This course has been developed to help recycling coordinators, public works o cials, and solid waste management personnel e ciently prepare and le their required reports. Topics will include:

    Using Excel or other spreadsheet programs to collect and summarize the required data

    Use of the traditional blue book tonnage grant forms, bonus form and summary sheet and

    Tips and short cuts to make ling just a bit easier!

    CPRs - earn three (3) classroom credits

    Course CoordinatorJoe Davis has served as the recycling tonnage grant administrator for the NJDEP since 1996.

    Note: This is a half-day (morning) program, only continental breakfast will be served.

    Recycling Public Policy

    March 19, 2015 Course code: ER0101CA15Registration fee: $140 Multi fee: $120

    Course Coordinator: Wayne DeFeo

    This course will provide the information you and your business, school or recycling program need to know to be ahead of the crowd. Speakers from the public and private sectors and regulatory agencies will lead cutting edge discussions of current policies, implementation processes, impacts and what might lie ahead. Learn what is going on today and what you can expect for tomorrow.

    Certi ed Recycling Professionals - take this opportunity to catch up with recent policy and legislative changes and earn six (6) classroom recerti cation credits in the process! This course is also approved for CPWM continuing education credits.

    NOTE: This class will be held in Bordentown, NJ.

    The Alternate Recycling Certi cation SeriesMarch 24, 31 & April 7 & 14, 2015

    Exam on April 28, 2014 (New Brunswick, NJ)Course code: ER0201CA15

    Cost: $425/$95 for individual dates

    This course is intended for county, municipal or other government employees who have signi cant experience (generally more than ten years) in the elds of recycling and/or solid waste or who have completed another professional certi cation program, such as those o ered for health o cers or public works managers. Upon completion of the four classes, attendees who wish to receive certi cation are required to sit for and pass a written exam based on the information presented.

    Active CRPs may take one or more of the single day sessions to earn recerti cation credits (six credits per day)and the course has been approved for Certi ed Public Works Manager (CPWM) continuing education credits.

    March 24, 2015 (S1)AM: The Recycling Coordinators Primer PM: NJDEP Regulations/Facts/Figures

    March 31, 2015 (S2)AM: E ective Communication/Promotion Using Reporting Data PM: Filing/Reporting/EnforcementMunicipal and County

    April 7, 2015 (S3)AM: Collection Techniques/ContractingPM: Case Studies

    April 14, 2015 (S4) Recycling Economics, Markets and Marketing

    For admission information, please contact Carol Broccoli at(732) 932-9271 x618.

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    Want to become a Certi ed Recycling Professional? Contact Carol Broccoli at (732) 932-9271 x618 or

    email [email protected].