NSWMA Chairman's Council

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Overview

Join other owners and senior managers of privately held NSWMA companies to visit various waste facilities, including transfer stations, MRFs and landfills, as well as to share ideas about the industry and socialize.

Our spring tour provides a forum for you to find innovative and effective ways to address your operational and management issues. Observe how other companies are performing their day-to-day activities and learn how your counterparts are dealing with the issues of training, disciplining and motivating their employees.

The tour visits approximately a dozen waste facilities, with ample time for conversation with your industry peers both on the bus, and at various social functions. Membership in the Chairman's Council is open to independent and privately-held NSWMA members.

2010 Chairman's Council Tour – North Carolina

In April, the NSWMA Chairman's Council went on tour in North Carolina visiting 11 solid waste facilities that included landfills, independently-owned hauling companies, transfer stations, materials recovery facilities, end-product recyclers, and an e-waste recycling center. This was the best attended spring tour for the council in 15 years with 33 individuals from 16 companies participating.

Highlights of the tour included: A visit to Pallet Resource of N.C., with demonstrations of pallet making, recycling operations that create mulch and playground cover from pallets, and a glimpse of the owner's office floor made from recovered pallet wood; Waste Industries' facility, where participants observed mechanics in the shop and quizzed them about oil filters designed to lengthen drain intervals, learned about the value of a company mission statement, and heard from EIA Hall of Fame inductees Lonnie Poole, Jr. and Jim Perry; the final stop, Onslow Container Service, where company president, Al Hill, showed attendees his farming operations complete with a visit to the pig-raising buildings. Attendees also spoke with back office staff about the company's routing software and the challenges of rural collection. The visit ended with a delicious BBQ lunch.

For many members, attending the tour was a means of finding specific solutions to problems. The networking opportunities and the openness of attendees and employees at visited facilities to discuss their operations make the Chairman's Council extremely valuable.

Previous tour locations:

• 2010 - Charlotte – Raleigh, NC
• 2009 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL
• 2008 – Washington, DC
• 2007 – San Francisco – Napa Valley, CA
• 2006 – Seattle, WA – Vancouver, BC
• 2005 – Philadelphia – New York – Boston
• 2004 – Denver, CO
• 2003 – San Diego, CA
• 2002 – Jacksonville – Daytona Beach – Orlando, FL
• 2001 – Montreal, QC – Halifax, NS
• 2000 – Portland – Seattle, WA – Vancouver, BC
• 1999 – San Francisco, CA – Reno – Las Vegas, NV
• 1998 – El Paso – Austin – Dallas, TX
• 1997 - Philadelphia – New York – Boston
• 1996 - Jacksonville – Daytona Beach – Orlando, FL
• 1995 – Atlanta, GA – Columbia, SC – Raleigh, NC
• 1994 - Pacific Northwest
• 1993 – Northeast
• 1992 – Midwest
• 1989 – Chairman's "Club" was formed; its first meeting was held in Pebble Beach, CA.

Contact:

Mike Huff
Chairman's Council Manager
mhuff@nswma.org
Tel: 770-5131440