9:30am – 9:55am       OPENING REMARKS AND KEYNOTE

• Jennifer Constable,  Co-Founder of Plastic Free Lunenburg.

  • Becoming a Plastic-free Community in Atlantic Canada

9:55am – 10:40am      PANEL DISCUSSION: PLASTIC ISSUE AND IMPACTS. Q&A TO FOLLOW

• Dr. Max Liboiron, Director of CLEAR plastic pollution lab and Associate Professor in Geography at Memorial University, Newfoundland.

• Imari Walker, Environmental Engineering PhD Candidate at Duke University, North Carolina.

• Susan Debreceni, Program Lead of Volunteer Engagement and Community Programs
  (U of T Trash Team), Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. University of Toronto, Ontario.

• Laura Markley, PhD Candidate, Civil & Environmental Engineering at the College of Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University, New York. Founder of wastefreephd.com

10:40am – 10:55am     15-MINUTE BREAK

10:55am – 11:05am      MESSAGE FROM THE MINISTER OF ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE CHANGE CANADA

11:05am – 11:30am       AHOI PRESENTATION – PLASTIC POLLUTION IN GROS MORNE

• Rebecca Brushett, Executive Director of AHOI

• Emily Walsh and Aaron Hingston, Intern & GMCA/ AHOI Student Assistants

11:30am – 12:10pm     BREAKOUT SESSION: CHALLENGES OF REDUCING PLASTIC WASTE

• Small group discussions to identify challenges/obstacles facing businesses and municipalities, as they try to reduce plastic waste.

12:10pm – 12:25pm    REGROUP AND PRESENTATIONS

• Small groups share the obstacles and challenges they’ve identified.

12:25pm – 12:30pm    CLOSING REMARKS