Thanks to Geoware Inc. and Mark Wills, Canadian Chapters of SWANA are able to recognize the efforts on Chapter Building of some of their key directors. This year 4 awards were presented at the 6th Canadian Symposium in Niagara Falls and the Pacific Chapter’s Dr. Tony Sperling was recognized for his long standing contributions.

The presentations presented at our recent 2012 Spring Networking Conference in Richmond, BC are now uploaded.  Click here to access the presentation PDFs.

The Pacific Chapter Spring Networking Conference March 29 and 30 at the Vancouver Airport Hotel in Richmond featured a raft of networking opportunities.  We had over 40 students take training and if everyone showed up at one time on the Friday over 90 people filled the Minoru Ballrooms.  Thanks go to our 18 sponsors and exhibitors, the 8 instructors, and over 20 presenters. We hope to have the all the PowerPoint presentations up by the end of the week, and have posted the final program, including the contact list, on the event page.

Thanks to all who participated! This was our most successful spring "small format event" yet, and we are looking forward to hosting the bigger format Pacific Northwest Regional Symposium next year. Save the date for April 2013 - right back in Richmond!

If you have any questions - particularly with regards to the new "young professionals" group that will be moving forward - please contact Ralph Bischoff.

On Thursday September 15, 2011, the Ministry of Environment in collaboration with the Solid Waste Association of North America Pacific Chapter – BC and Yukon hosted a live meeting/limited access conference call regarding Packaging and Printed Paper.  You can get the synopsis here.