Julie is the Co-Director of Cascadia's Oakland, CA office, serving in the role with fellow Co-Director Julia Chang Frank. She leads our Bay Area team's public sector zero waste planning and outreach efforts. Julie has over 15 years of zero waste experience, including eight years serving as the City Government Zero Waste Senior Coordinator at the San Francisco Department of Environment where she administered contracts and managed the resource recovery and waste prevention programs for the City's 30,000 employees and over 1,000 facilities.
How Does Your Program Measure Up? Julie's presentation will do the following:
- explain the importance of measurement as it relates to a community recycling program
- explain the different types of measurement techniques (i.e. a capture rate study vs. a waste characterization study vs. tagging carts vs. a larger view on a community's contamination)
- cite real world examples of communities that have found success utilizing the methods listed above