NERC developed a one-day seminar as a strategy for assisting recycling businesses to access financing. Business service providers were targeted as the seminar audience since they work most closely with businesses that are seeking financing, prior to them approaching financiers. The seminar described in detail the nuances of the recycling industry that financiers often times misunderstand, and the issues faced by recycling firms that are unique from other small businesses. NERC partnered with the Chelsea Center for Recycling and Economic Development in Massachusetts, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation and the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources to present the seminar in four NERC states from June 2000–October 2001.

The key NERC staff for this project was Mary Ann Remolador. For more information about NERC's current projects, contact Mariane Medeiros, Senior Project Manager.