Expert Panel on Ontario’s Recycling Framework
Roundtable Luncheon with Tom Chervinsky, Canadians for Clean Prosperity; Ken Friesen, Canadian Beverage Container Recycling Association; and Jo-Anne St. Godard, Recycling Council of Ontario
Earlier this year the Institute published a paper entitled An Opportunity not to be wasted: Reforming Ontario's Recycling Program. Our expert panelists discussed the paper, and reform in the Ontario recycling system more generally.
Panelists:
Tom Chervinsky, VP Campaigns, Canadians for Clean Prosperity
Ken Friesen, Executive Director, Canadian Beverage Container Recycling Association
Jo-Anne St. Godard, Executive Director, Recycling Council of Ontario
Please note this event was private and off-the-record. Mr. Chervinsky has made his remarks available online here.
Click "Read More" to see speakers' biographies.
Tom Chervinsky, VP Campaigns, Canadians for Clean Prosperity
Tom Chervinsky is the Vice President, Campaigns of Canadians for Clean Prosperity. Specializing in political engagement, marketing & strategy, he holds degrees in business and social psychology.
Born in Toronto, Tom started his career working for Members of Parliament in Ottawa, managing communications, policy and critic portfolios, including Labour and the Treasury board. Since then he was worked for a variety of organizations where he played key leadership roles in political and advocacy campaigns.
Responsible for shaping Canadians for Clean Prosperity’s campaigns and political engagement strategies, Tom is always interested in new ways to engage and motivate Canadians to build public and political support for a stronger, cleaner economy.
When he’s not tackling pollution, Tom can be seen on the field tackling opponents as an amateur rugby player.
Ken Friesen, Executive Director, Canadian Beverage Container Recycling Association
Ken Friesen,President of Reclay StewardEdge Inc. (RSE) has helped establish and lead the initiation, design, and implementation of multi-stakeholder stewardship programs in Manitoba, Ontario, British Columbia and Saskatchewan. As President, he continues to build the company’s profile in public and private sectors providing strategic advice and cost-reducing services to its national and multi-national clients.
Ken also serves as the Executive Director for the Canadian Beverage Container Recycling Association (CBCRA), a regulated industry-led organization whose mandate is to ensure effective and cost-efficient collection and recycling of used beverage containers generated in residential and away from home sectors. Since the CBCRA’s inception in 2010, RSE has been contracted to provide a full suite of services to manage the CBCRA program
Ken is also a Director of StewardChoice, an agency working to provide competitive EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility) compliance services which allows producers to choose how and with whom they would like to meet their compliance obligations.
Ken’s background in municipal government, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector enables him to apply a variety of perspectives in his approach to recycling, waste management and stewardship issues.
Jo-Anne St. Godard, Executive Director, Recycling Council of Ontario
Jo-Anne St. Godard has been Executive Director of Recycling Council of Ontario (RCO) since 2004, and plays a key role in furthering waste reduction and recycling in Ontario and beyond. Her expertise relates to development of policies and practices that drive positive environmental outcomes under market-based approaches, and how they relate to stewardship and extended producer responsibility. In doing so, she applies demonstrated best practice on waste policies that balance environmental and economic interests to achieve results.
Ms. St. Godard also works with business and industry to help them understand and leverage opportunity from their environmental obligations and business models, and has led the development of innovative programs that support waste reduction in the commercial sector through Take Back the Light and 3RCertified, and in youth education through the Waste-Free Lunch Challenge.
to