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Understanding Recycling Economics

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Understanding Recycling Economics

Date & Time

Wednesday, March 10, 2027, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

Category

Continuing Education

Location

Bioresource Engineering Laboratory (formerly ECC)

18 Ag Extension Way New Brunswick, NJ, 08901

Contact

Pamela Springard-Mayer

Recycling symbol and dollar signs written on chalkboard

Recycling makes financial sense, but only if you design your operations to make it so. That starts with fully understanding your costs and analyzing how those costs change as your program changes. It also means that you must be able to talk the language of accounting, economics, finance, and marketing.

In this four-day class, you’ll work break-even levels, full cost accounting, marginal cost analysis, payback periods, and analyzing waste audits. The class is fast-paced, fun, and interactive. Working in small groups, you will solve problems using current costs and prices to make program decisions. You’ll practice “what if” scenarios, so that no matter how the variables change, you can still find solutions that maximize returns and minimize costs.

This class is part of the NJ Recycling Certification Series.

Speaker: Neil Blitz

Fee: $270 per person