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SUPPLY CHAIN &
WASTE PREVENTION
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Workshop II: Engaging the Supply Chain: From Packaging to Partnerships
Breakfast hour w/Sponsor Bingo
Official Welcome & RISE Leadership Award
Marquee Keynote: Marquee speaker(s) coming soon
Break
Asking the Critical Questions Forum: “Do Consumers Care about Sustainability & Climate Action?”
Lunch & Wine
Two parallel workshops. Spend 30-35 minutes at each workshop, then groups will switch.
Get involved with two game-changing initiatives creating a more circular supply chain. Join Revino’s Adam Rack and Keenan O’Hern to explore how they’re making wine bottle reuse work in the Willamette Valley, with plans to expand to California and, we hope, first stop Napa Valley! Learn the critical elements of successful glass reuse – from standardized molds and wash-off labels to quality control and logistics. Then learn how you can join the Zero Waste Collective. Born from RISE 2023, this vintner-led initiative has established two collection facilities for film wrap, which is collected by Trex and turned into sustainable decking. ZWC is also facilitating label back recycling with Raflatac, and can support recycling of other materials, with pickup options available.
Action Opportunities:
Adam Rack is the co-founder of Revino, a company rebuilding the reuse economy for the wine & beverage industry.
With a passion for environmental stewardship, he’s helped to prevent the use of over one million single-use bottles during his time in Oregon’s wine industry and helped to build out the keg wine market with the Coopers Hall team, consulting on keg wine programs of all sizes from small restaurants to the Oregon Convention Center and Zoo. In 2020 he launched a wine club exclusively featuring reusable bottles, leading into Revino’s work today.
He serves on the PR3 Reuse Standards Panel, is a team leader with his local emergency response team, and in his freetime enjoys guerilla gardening with his partner by spreading native plant seeds on their runs.
Oregon is known for producing outstanding wine; now, O’Hern wants it to be known for sustainable packaging, too.Revino,founded in 2020, aims to eliminate single-use packaging with refillable wine bottles—which also helps reduce the industry’s carbon footprint and alleviate glass bottle shortages. The Oregon native first observed “the circular economy” while traveling in Europe, where citizens were already accustomed to returning bottles for refill. He sought to bring the model to the U.S. In early 2022, Adam Rack, a longtime proponent and early adopter of refillables, and Austin Ziegler both signed on as a cofounder. The trio knew the environmental impact of single-use bottles “couldn’t be left for another generation to solve,” O’Hern says.
As director of market transformation & development for the TRUE Zero Waste Certification, Stephanie Barger is responsible for the growth and development of the TRUE program. Barger helped launch TRUE, which is owned and administered by Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI) in 2017. GBCI is the premier organization independently recognizing excellence in green business industry performance and practice globally and administers all LEED green building certifications. TRUE was acquired by GBCI in 2016 and was previously known as U.S. Zero Waste Business Council, which Barger formed in January 2012.
Barger has been dedicated to meeting the growing need for educational resources, peer-to-peer networking and third-party certification for businesses across the nation related to waste reduction and zero waste. She brings over 25 years of experience in environmental stewardship, employee training, management consulting and business development.
Megan joined the Napa Zero Waste Collective in 2023 to be a part of the conversation on reducing waste in the winemaking stream and to bring awareness to suppliers’ responsibilities within the system. As co-chair, she helps organize and promote closed-loop, circular and zero-waste solutions in Napa Valley and other winemaking regions.
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