DRAFT, 8/19/98
This draft resource list, which has been assembled by the California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB), identifies individuals working on waste prevention related programs who are able to discuss their programs with other waste reduction coordinators. Please be considerate of their time and understand your inquiries will be responded to as time permits. (Note: Any results mentioned are self-reported.)
We were not able to contact everyone we wanted to include on this list. If your program is working well and you are able to be a resource person, please contact the Waste Prevention Info Exchange at (916) 255-INFO or send an e-mail to [email protected]. We will be posting the list at our web site: http://www.ciwmb.ca. gov/mrt/wpw/wpmain.htm
General Information
Waste Prevention Info Exchange
CIWMB, 8800 Cal Center Dr., MS 23
Sacramento, CA 95826-3268
Phone (916)255-INFO
Fax (916) 255-4580
E-mail: wpinfoex@ ciwmb.ca.gov
Web site: http://www.ciwmb.ca. gov/mrt/wpw/wpmain.htm
Search the California Integrated Waste Management Board’s (CIWMB) Waste Prevention Info Exchange on-line database of waste prevention resources. Includes abstracts and contact information for hundreds of waste prevention programs. Web site: http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/cgi-shl/foxweb.exe/wpieqry@Wpiedbs/ wpieqry
National Waste Prevention Coalition
c/o King County Solid Waste Division
400 Yesler Way, Rm. 600
Seattle, WA 98104-2637
E-mail: [email protected]
Web site: http://www.metrokc.gov/nwpc
Participate in the Waste Prevention Forum, a project of the National Waste Prevention Coalition, by sending an e-mail message to Forum moderator Tom Watson. You receive periodic e-mail messages on waste prevention topics. You can also submit questions. The Forum covers source reduction and reuse, NOT recycling.
Anthony Eulo
City of Morgan Hill, 17555 Peak Ave.
Morgan Hill, CA 95037-4128
(408) 779-7247
E-mail: [email protected]
Previously wrote a waste prevention newsletter so has a broad perspective. Tony now works on the City of Morgan Hill’s green business program.
Business Programs
Rory Bakke
Alameda County Waste Management Authority, 777 Davis Street, Suite 200
San Leandro, CA 94577
Phone: (510) 614-1699
Fax: (510) 614-1698
E-mail: [email protected]
The Alameda County Waste Management Authority & Source Reduction and Recycling Board provides assistance to businesses in the areas of waste prevention, recycled product market development, technical assistance and public education. Provides free comprehensive environmental assessments to large and medium-sized companies and institutions in Alameda County that fall into selected industries which include: healthcare, universities, colleges, electronics, food processing, large recreational facilities, biotech-nology, business parks. Distribute guides, reports, and an overview of their services can be viewed at their web site: http://www.stopwaste.org/
Liz Citrino
Humboldt County
100 H St. Ste. 100, Eureka, CA 95553
Phone: (707) 445-7429
E-mail: [email protected]
County has already surpassed 50% diversion! Worked with largest waste generator, a company generating 1/3 of waste. This company reduced waste at source through new technology that reduced ash generated from co-generation. Additionally, the county’s materials exchange program has a cooperative agreement with a weekly shopping newspaper whereby each party receives free advertising space. The education program selects a different theme each year so citizens are not overwhelmed with too much information at once.
Jim Jensen
Sound Resource Management Group
119 Pine Street, #203, Seattle, WA 98101
Phone: 206-622-9454 Fax: 206-622-9569
Implemented Snohomish County’s Packaging Waste Prevention Project in Washington. Snohomish Co. focused on preventing packaging waste as key to overall waste prevention strategy. Participating businesses received hands-on assistance from packaging professionals. More than $443,000 was saved initially and hundreds of tons of waste prevented or material diverted annually. The cost was about $40,000.
Karen Higgins
City of Los Angeles
Bureau of Sanitation, Integrated Solid Waste Management Office
200 N. Main Street, Rm. 1450,
City Hall East, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: (213) 485-1978 Fax: (213) 847-3054
E-mail: [email protected]
Conducts an annual survey of target generators and uses this info to design programs. Did analysis on what waste generators create and options to divert waste. L.A. has achieved about a 46% diversion rate.
Michelle Sackman
Dept. of Environmental Resources
Stanislaus County
1716 Morgan Rd., Modesto, CA 95458
Phone: 209-525-4160
Stanislaus County’s business program takes advantage of the CIWMB’s Waste Reduction Award Program (WRAP). Every other year the co. sends out two newsletters to businesses. One provides waste reduction tips, announces workshops , and encourages businesses to apply for the WRAP award. The second profiles local WRAP winners.
Rudy Umana
City of Glendale
Integrated Waste Management Section
548 West Chevy Chase Dr.
Glendale, CA 91204
Phone: 818-548-3916
Compiled 13 business case studies in a guide for businesses. Guide includes source reduction examples and some of the cost savings that result from source reduction.
City Facilities
Susana Estreller
City Facilities Recycling Program (CFRP)
115 East First Street, Room 501
City of Los Angeles,
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: 213-847-2821, fax 847-6041
E-mail: [email protected]
CFRP involves thousands of employees and many facilities (police, libraries, government offices, special events, etc.) Program includes: City-wide policy on copying, new specifications for copiers, workshops on “Effective Publications–the Environmental Way” to teach source reduction in printed materials, promotes “reuse-a-mug” at City offices, and a City materials exchange program (CitiMAX) to encourage reuse of excess and outdated supplies and increase donation opportunities to schools.
Material exchanges and reuse
SonoMAX
Karina Mahl, Public Educ. Coordinator
Sonoma County Waste Management
575 Administration Dr. Room 117A
Santa Rosa, CA 95403
Phone: (707) 527-3668
Eco Desk Hotline: (707) 527-3375
Fax: (707) 527-3701
E-mail: [email protected]
Web site: http://www.recyclenow.org/sonomax/
A local minimax that shares listings with CALMAX, the California Materials Exchange, a program of the CIWMB. Listings range from 67-80 per quarter, about half are new. About 50 listings are in the “available” category, the rest are “wanted”. Materials in the “available” category have best success. Reported diversion is 12-40 tons per quarter.
ProMAX
Victor Aguiar
Ecology Action of Santa Cruz
P.O. Box 1188, Santa Cruz, CA 95061
Phone: (408) 426-5925 ext 13
Fax: (408) 425-1404
E-mail [email protected]
A local minimax that shares listings with CALMAX. Reported referrals made the first year were 8 tons. This jumped to 58 tons the second year and expected to increase significantly again. Also – contract with local governments to perform waste assessments for businesses.
Measuring Source Reduction
Tom Padia
Alameda County Waste Management
777 Davis Street, Suite 200
San Leandro, CA 94577
Phone: (510) 614-1699
Fax: (510) 614-1698
E-mail: [email protected]
Profiting From Source Reduction: Measuring the Hidden Benefits identifies costs savings from source reduction beyond the commonly reported disposal and purchasing costs. Measures larger benefits of source reduction and resource efficiency, can be used to convince companies to invest in changes that are more efficient, less wasteful, and help meet AB 939 goals. The study presents 4 key measurement tools: 1) source reduction cost analysis, 2) productivity modeling, 3) resource productivity, and 4) waste intensity used county-wide or per company. These methods capture a range of impacts from source reduction by focusing on material use costs rather than just purchase and disposal costs. Report includes case studies focused on paper use, retail packaging, and construction materials. The Executive Summary is online at: http://www.stopwaste.org/srcred/index.html
Eugene Tseng
Eugene Tseng & Associates
30023 W. Rainbow Crest Dr.
Agoura Hills, CA 91301
(818) 889-8628
Business Waste Prevention Quantification Methodologies a guide on measurement techniques for a variety of waste prevention activities common to many large businesses. Activities: paper reduction, computer networking, electronic data interchange, packaging reduction, pallet reduction and reuse, toner cartridge remanufacturing, office supply and reuse. Copies from Waste Prevention Info Exchange at (916) 255-INFO.
Organics recycling
Joe Keyser
Montgomery County
Division of Solid Waste Services
Dept. of Environmental Protection
101 Monroe Street
Rockville, MD 20850
Phone: (301) 217-2361
E-mail: [email protected]
Composting Hotline: (301) 590-0046
Web site: http://www.dpwt.com/SolWstSvcDiv/solid/grass~1.htm
A yard trim disposal ban was initiated in 1994 to remove the yard trim fraction from the waste stream. Weekly curbside collection is provided with material processed at the County’s compost facility. To avoid expanding the compost facility, a capital investment of $2.5 million, the County promoted composting and grasscycling. Key to campaign success was a phone research survey of 1,100 homes to determine habits and attitudes towards yard trimmings recycling. By end of 1994, only 54,000 tons of material entered the recycling stream; more importantly, less than 9,000 tons of grass put at the curb — reduction of 27,000 tons due to grasscycling. With grass reduced, an additional 11,000 tons of shredded wood mulch (brush) were given back to residents free at neighborhood sites. Only 43,000 tons of trimmings needed to be composted — and the $2.5 million facility expansion was avoided.
Richard Shaw
City of Folsom
Solid Waste Recycling Diversion
50 Natomas Street, Folsom, CA 95630
Phone: 916-985-0738
Minimizing Organic Waste with Education and Recycling (MOWER) Rebate Program. 250-300 citizens attend composting and grasscycling classes each year. Participants receive free compost bin or mower rebate, 89% of participants chose the compost bin. City found that 64% of compost bins issued are being used. The city pays a $35 rebate for gas mowers, matched by a $35 discount from the vendor, Troy Built. The electric cordless mowers have a $75 rebate and $75 discount. The city estimates it takes five grasscycling mowers to divert one ton of grass clippings. A survey in fall 1998 will determine if mulching mowers are used as intended.
Sharon Gates
Integrated Urban Forestry
23382 Mill Creek Drive, Suite 225
Laguna Hills, CA 92653
Phone: (714) 837-5692 Fax: (714) 588-5058
E-mail: [email protected]
Integrated Urban Forestry (IUF) has implemented green waste programs for City of Glendale and Leisure World (retirement community with a highly regarded yard trimmings management program in Laguna Hills). IUF worked with managers of large landscapes. Significant changes were made by six organizations. Five began separating green waste and four began or increased grasscycling. Diversion was 1,800 tons of green waste per year. Over 10 years the anticipated diversion is 18,000 tons. The project budget was $90,000 so the cost is $5 per ton over ten years.
Teresa Eade, Program Coordinator
Megan Starkey
Alameda County Waste
Management Authority
Home Composting Program
777 Davis Street, Suite 200
San Leandro, CA 94577
Phone: (510) 614-1699 Fax: (510) 614-1698
E-mail: [email protected]
From 1991-96 the county sold 24,126 discount compost bins, educated 9,900 adults in workshops, responded to 24,000 phone calls via the “Rotline”, distributed 150,000 brochures and trained 126 master composters in an annual 13-week intensive training. There is also an educational video. Based on survey findings, the residents who purchased bins on average divert 543 pounds per year. Over ten years they will divert 49,000 tons at a cost of $18 per ton (amortized over the ten-year life span of the bin). Expenses incurred the first year were $141/ton. Information on this program is at the web site: http://www.stopwaste.org/fscompost.html
Kevin Miller
City of Napa Public Works Dept.
1600 First Street, PO Box 660
Napa, CA 94559-0660
Phone: (707) 257-9520 X7552
Fax: (707) 257-9522
E-mail: [email protected]
In the past year 800 people have attended ten composting and grasscycling classes. About 200 people were turned away! At the end of the class attendees receive one of the following: a free compost bin, or $25 rebate on selected worm bins, mulching lawn mower, or retrofit/ attachment. Kevin announced the classes in garbage bill inserts. Classes conducted next to a golf course that practices grasscycling.
Reducing Unwanted Mail
Christine Vitalis
City of San Leandro
14200 Chapman Rd.
San Leandro, CA 94578-3424
510-577-6026
The City’s Public Works Department reduced their incoming mail by over 1/3. This reduction was attributed to junk mail reduction campaign. Companies that sent unwanted mail were contacted. It turned out two companies contributed most of it. It took persistence to get them to send less.
Shopping Campaigns
David Assmann
Senior Administrator
San Francisco Solid Waste Management
Program
1145 Market Street, Suite 401
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 554-3400
Save Money and the Environment Too Campaign is a unique public/private partnership, combining the efforts of 110 cities and counties in the San Francisco Bay area, working in partnership with 400 supermarkets, state agencies, and other partners. 1999 will be the fourth consecutive year for the campaign, which occurs for three weeks in January. Reported good results in the first year, based on surveys conducted before and after the campaign.
Schools
Wendy Harrison
Tuolumne Co. Superintendent of Schools Office
175 S. Fairview Lane
Sonora, CA 95370
Phone: 209-533-8710
The educational program is done in partnership with US Waste. School groups tour the local MRF where there are interactive displays and activities geared to 4-6th grade, these also deal with water and energy conservation. Teachers must attend a workshop before bringing students to the MRF. This program uses the “Closing the Loop” curriculum available from the CIWMB schools section — contact Tricia Broddrick at (916) 255-2389 for more information.
Doug Eubanks
Recycling Specialist
Commercial Diversion Programs
Co. of Sacramento
Dept. of Public Works Agency
9850 Goethe Road
Sacramento, CA 958279700 Goethe Rd., Suite E
Sacramento, CA 95827-3500
Ph (916) 875-7165 Fax (916) 875-6767
[email protected]
County has a good IWM education outreach program that includes school assemblies on recycling. They provide curriculum to teachers, and work with the schools on their diversion programs.
Variable Can Rates (Pay-as-you-throw or Unit pricing)
Sharon Blaufus
Public Works Section, City of Lodi
Assist. City Manager
PO Box 3006, Lodi, CA 95241-1910
209-333-6706
The City of Lodi, population 55,000, started a variable can system in 1993, with a 38-gallon trash cart, 65-gallon recycling cart, and a 95-gallon yard waste cart. Lodi reports 30.5 percent diversion in 1995. Diversion was at 10 percent in 1990. Many families can’t fit all their trash in the 38-gallon container so they are encouraged to recycle.
Jan Canterbury
U.S. EPA
Mail stop: 5306W,
401 M Street, SW
Washington, DC 20460
703-308-7264
The U.S. EPA distributes a Pay As You Throw Tool Kit that includes fact sheets, a guide book with detailed information, community testimonials, video, resource list, etc. Order a free kit at 1-888-EPA-PAYT. Also materials are available at the web site: http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/ non-hw/payt/