<div dir="ltr"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:920px"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0.75pt"><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="4">The Oklahoma Recycling Association would like to let you know about this opportunity to learn more about these important issues. <br></font></pre><p class="MsoNormal"></p><img src="cid:ii_kp7etms10" alt="image.png" width="314" height="120"><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span><u></u><u></u></p><div align="center"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" width="632" style="width:474pt;background:rgb(196,189,151)"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0.75pt"><h2 align="center" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:18pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background:rgb(155,187,89)">Coming Soon - <a name="m_157330703330537463_LinkIsNotTracked" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"></a><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#m_157330703330537463_calculator">Environmental Benefits Calculators</a>, <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#m_157330703330537463_lithium">Lithium Battery Recycling</a>, <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#m_157330703330537463_epr">EPR for Packaging</a>, & <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#m_157330703330537463_food">Food Upcycling</a> Webinars<br><br></span><u></u><u></u></h2><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a name="m_157330703330537463_calculator"><strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Environmental Benefits Calculators - How they Work & How they Can Help</span></strong></a><strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> - June 8, 2 pm eastern</span></strong><span style="color:black"></span><u></u><u></u></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">A comprehensive webinar organized by NERC and NEWMOA, highlighting environmental benefits calculators that can estimate the climate change value of source reduction, reuse, and recycling.  Featured calculators include:</span><u></u><u></u></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">WARM - a tool for solid waste planners and organizations to track and voluntarily report greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions, energy savings, and economic impacts from various waste management practices. WARM calculates and totals these impacts from baseline and alternative waste management practices—source reduction, recycling, anaerobic digestion, combustion, composting, and landfilling.</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">ReCon – companies, government entities, and individuals can estimate the environmental impacts from purchasing and/or manufacturing materials with varying degrees of post-consumer recycled content using this tool.</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">ReFed – calculator to estimate the impacts of reducing food waste. .</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Electronics Environmental Benefits Calculators – Cellphones, monitors, computers, televisions, servers, and imaging equipment</span><u></u><u></u></li></ul><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><a name="m_157330703330537463_https___attendee_gotowebinar_register_25"></a><a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgo2.mailengine1.com%2Fclick%2Ff8qq-2efqhn-5sa67r-9dhhkw33%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cthorst%40choctawnation.com%7Cd13c09372b07464db6e908d9212da33f%7C47179c27f1cb43d2b07477f138da7144%7C0%7C1%7C637577302160963780%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=PIeti6BLaNp2iWOfgp3cEMsk%2Fk4PuaQ69rmylS%2BV%2BVE%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Register here</span></b></a><u></u><u></u></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><a name="m_157330703330537463_lithium"><strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Lithium Battery Recycling, June 14, 1 pm eastern</span></strong></a><u></u><u></u></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">This webinar is jointly offered by NERC, NEWMOA, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). The presentations will provide an in-depth examination of multiple aspects of spent lithium-ion batteries, including innovations that reduce the environmental impacts of operations in recycling, reuse, and recovery of val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 credit available from NJ Rutgers, NH DES, and PROP</span></strong><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span><u></u><u></u></h5></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br><br></span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div>