I hope you will join me next month for "Is This Getting More Complicated? Communicating Through the Media Clutter," a webinar sponsored by the Solid Waste Association of North America. I want to help you compete with the distractions that clutter today's media. More on that below.

Next week, we are attending the Resource Recycling Conference in Indianapolis. I hope to see you there! I will be presenting and helping moderate at the National Recycling Coalition (NRC) roundtable discussion on a National Sustainable Materials Management Action Plan. The roundtable is a follow-up to NRC's May event where 130 stakeholders met to give input on a National Sustainable Materials Management Action Plan. Please join me on Wednesday, September 30, from 3 - 5 p.m. as we discuss ways that local governments and recycling organizations can make the move from recycling to the broader efforts of sustainable materials management.