To create a true circular economy, you need to have the full value chain working together: manufacture/production, consumer, collection/recovery, material sorting/processing, end market, and repurposed/new production. Easier said than done, right? There is an innovative approach that does not push the full responsibility to municipalities, but instead involves public, private, non-profit, university, and impact investors. NextCycle is an innovative pathway that elevates material recovery and recycled-content manufacturing ideas to vetted, shovel-ready projects. NextCycle has been successfully implemented for two cycles in Colorado, and now Michigan has expanded upon the program and initiated a multi-focus approach. The program connects the idea-generators with mentors and experts to develop business plans, data to understand region-specific industry and economics, and potential investors to make the ideas a reality. By creating a competitive opportunity for teams to develop their ideas into projects ripe for investment and implementation, states, residents, and businesses win through leveraging private investment, spurring end market development, supporting infrastructure improvement, ensuring equitable impact, as well as accelerating environmental and economic progress. For this webinar, an expert panel will present an overview of NextCycle as well as perspectives from a state programmatic level and a private company participant.

Speakers:

• Matthew Naud, Associate Senior Consultant, @Resource Recycling Systems
• Kendra Appelman-Eastvedt, Recycling Resources Economic Opportunity (RREO) Program Administrator @Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment (CDPHE)
• Lou Troiano, President @Foam Cycle

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