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Workshop AA Sustainability Best Practices … Sustainable Materials Management in Manufacturing Wednesday, March 22, 2017 8:00 a.m. to 9:15 p.m.

Biographical Information Jennifer J. Cave, Member, Stites & Harbison PLLC 400 West Market Street, Suite 1800, Louisville, KY 40202 502-681-1091 Fax: 502-779-8280 jcave@stites.com Jennifer J. Cave works closely with businesses to ensure compliance with environmental laws and regulations. She regularly assists clients with air, water, and waste permitting and compliance issues. She also has extensive experience defending clients in enforcement actions and citizen suit litigation. Jennifer counsels domestic and international manufacturers on the importation and sale of mobile sources, including non-road engines and equipment under the Clean Air Act. Jennifer guides clients through transactions involving the purchase and sale of Brownfields and frequently works with clients on facility or programmatic audits. Additionally, Jennifer provides compliance advice on new regulatory proposals and drafts public comments on these rules on behalf of electric utilities, manufacturers, and industry trade groups. In addition, she has extensive experience evaluating and litigating coverage for complex and long-tail environmental contamination claims under general liability and pollution liability policies. She is a frequent speaker on a variety of environmental law topics, including permitting, reporting, enforcement, auditing, and regulation development. During law school, Jennifer interned with the Office of Regional Counsel for the United States Environmental Protection Agency in Seattle. Prior to attending law school, she was an environmental consultant specializing in environmental contamination assessment and remediation and hazardous waste compliance across the United States. Rhonda Poston, Manufacturing & Environmental Services Executive Republic Services, 1423 South Jackson Street, Louisville, KY 40208 502-314-5278 Rposton@Republicservices.com Rhonda began working in Waste Industry in 1983 with Nationwide Waste –She has held multiple job functions over the tenure to include Accounts payable clerk, staff accountant, Sales Representative, Sales Management, Assistant Landfill Manager, Landfill Manager, Due diligence coordinator and Coal Ash by-products specialist. She has served in various capacities to include solid waste collection, transfer station and material recovery operations management, special waste, municipal services and waste by rail. She is a certified manager of landfill manager accredited through the University of Georgia. In her current capacity she assists manufacturing sites to find landfill diversion opportunities to assist in reaching company sustainability goals. Rhonda holds an A.S. in Accounting from Sullivan University and B.BA in Business to Business Marketing from Kennesaw University.

Sustainable Materials Management in Manufacturing 26 th Annual Sustainability and Environmental, Health & Safety Symposium – March 21-22, 2017

Agenda • What is “Sustainable Materials Management”? • Evolution of Materials Management in Manufacturing • Adopting Sustainable Waste Practices at Your Plant • Common Challenges • Recyclable Waste Streams & Ongoing Commodity Values • Exploring Intelligent Recycling Options— Challenges & Successes • Finding a Path to Zero Landfill Waste • Beneficial Reuse of Scrap Materials • Exotic Recycling—Options for Non-Standard Materials • Environmental Impacts of Incineration vs. Landfill Gas to Energy 2

What is “Sustainable Materials Management”? Systemic approach to using and reusing materials more productively over their entire lifecycles. • Represents a change in how a society thinks about the use of natural resources and environmental protection. • Looks at a product's entire lifecycle to find new opportunities to reduce environmental impacts, conserve resources, and reduce costs.

Evolution of Materials Managem ent in Manufacturing . 1910’s-1930’s • Assembly line popularity starting and exploding. • Automotive and steel related manufacturing booms. • War efforts create shortage of materials and actual recycling rates were HIGH. • Salvaging materials was key. • Number of different materials was low, resources scarce, so recovering scrap was important. • Little exotic material design. 1930’s and 1940’s • Government rationing of materials for wartime manufacturing mandated. • Metals, rubber, nylon etc., in limited production. • Overall culture and availability of materials meant less total one time use items. • Higher value commodities were scarce so were used wisely. 4

Evolution of Materials Managem ent in Manufacturing . 1950’s early 1960’s • As middle class and manufacturing for consumers grew, one time use items became popular. • More exotic plastics introduced. • An era of “whatever is cheaper” in terms of materials management too hold. • Lower quality goods scrap landfilled. 1965 to 1975 • Problems inherent to landfill disposal of nearly everything begin to show. • Dumps neared capacity. • Regulation of disposable, industrial waste beginning. • First Earth Day in 1970 brings awareness that change is needed. • Forward thinking manufacturers develop programs to reuse waste in-house or find buyers. 5

Evolution of Materials Managem ent in Manufacturing . 1976 • RCRA enacted– regulates disposal, tracking, and classification of wastes. • Large scale manufacturing begins a huge change from dumping and forgetting to proper tracking. • Due to increased financial burdens, plants look at ways to divert waste away from landfills. 1980’s through early 1990’s • Recycling rates increase dramatically – driven by the consumer market and, when reasonably possible, business. • Many hard to sort or exotic materials still primarily landfilled. • High volume automotive manufacturing helps drive industry to look for cost cutting opportunities which starts a trend toward more efficient material use. 6

Evolution of Materials Managem ent in Manufacturing . • 1985 to 1995 • Overall increase in recycled tonnage from 10% to over 25% of total solid waste. • Easily processable materials programs and vendors boom with the influx of material. • Manufacturers find the availability of sustainable input material is high. • 1995 to 2010 • Rapid pace of prior decade slows, however still add another 10% to the total of recycled tonnage. • Waste to Energy through burning takes off. • All the easy to recycle material is being recycled. • Manufacturers continue better sorting and recycling programs, but technology driven composite materials makes recycling harder and harder. • The reliance on oversees shipping to facilitate less desirable materials grows as manufacturers strive to keep making gains. 7

Evolution of Materials Managem ent in Manufacturing . 2010 – 2015 • Overseas markets dry up and manufacturers strive to find homes for once “recyclable” scrap. • The overall trend to lower landfill volumes increases competition driving landfill prices lower. This creates a market where throwing away trash is the most cost effective solution. • Landfill technology grows to capture the methane gas generated and use for energy generation. • Landfills take a higher mix of industrial manufacturing waste compared to residential waste than ever before due to strong residential recycling programs. • Engineered plastics and composite materials used in advanced manufacturing are too difficult to reprocess. • Availability of clean and easily recyclable material increases. Processing facilities begin to tighten their standards of acceptance. The increased quality standards push many manufactures to disposal options. • Labor impacts of material handling programs damper internal plant efforts. With every increasing call for lean manufacturing, attempts are made at cutting scrap in most every industry. • Overall manufacturing recycling levels off as the resources necessary to increase sustainability outweigh the cost benefits to many businesses. 8

Evolution of Materials Managem ent in Manufacturing . 2016 – Today • Some manufacturers excel at sustainable materials management others struggle. • Product manufacturing and engineering specifications affect the ability to increase diversion percentages. • Marketing of sustainable waste practices becomes a financial driver for industry and consumer demands. • Makes the investments necessary more palatable to manufacturers. 9

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Adopting Sustainable W aste Practices at Your Plant Non-Hazardous Materials & Waste Management Hierarchy • Recognize no single waste management approach is suitable for managing all materials and waste streams in all circumstances. • Ranks management strategies from most to least environmentally preferred. • Emphasis on reducing, reusing, and recycling as key to sustainable materials management.