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From: "Elizabeth Shoch" <elizabeth.shoch@...>
Subject: Final Document Released - Guide to Packaging Material Flows and Terminology
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 13:09:59 -0500 (CDT)

I am pleased to send you the link to the final version of the Closing the Loop project’s Guide to Packaging Material Flows and Terminology.

Many of you asked why we didn’t include actual numbers and percentages on the graphics. Our goal was to make a strong visual impression of how packaging materials flow from resource extraction through use and recycling/discard, and not to present the actual numbers on the graphic. However, the lines/bars are accurately sized according to the percentages from the EPA 2007 Municipal Solid Waste Facts & Figures report.

We formally released the Guide in late September at the Sustainable Packaging Coalition’s Fall Members Meeting in Atlanta. It’s now posted online at http://www.greenblue.org/resources_documents.html . Please feel free to download it and share it widely.

With my best regards,

Liz Shoch

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The GrassRoots Recycling Network helped provide info for the following story that was published in the New York Times on Monday, October 19, 2009:

Nudging Recycling From Less Waste to None

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 ZERO WASTE CLASSES IN FRESNO, CA, November 19, 2009

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Intro to Zero Waste the Foundation for Resource Management Instructors, Richard Anthony & Gary Liss

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In this issue: CEO Report Advocacy Update Search for Awards Nominees Lawrence Lecturer Nominees Hickman Intern Program AAEE Awards International Secretary Solicitation 2010 Thinking Outside the Blue Box MSW Spanish Course Training and Education Certification Career Center November 5, 2009 ISWA to Weigh in on UN Climate Accord John H. Skinner, Ph.D., Executive Director and CEO The International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) is preparing a series of initiatives to enable it to participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 15) to be held in Copenhagen on December 7-18, 2009. SWANA is the National Member of ISWA for Canada and the United States and as such is a member of the ISWA General Assembly, the governing body of the association. Read more. Senate Committee Passes Climate Change Legislation Shannon Crawford, Manager of Legislative and Regulatory Programs This morning, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee passed S.1733, the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. Read more. Awards Committee Search for Award Nominees The SWANA annual Awards Program recognizes individuals and their organizations for their contributions to the Association, to solid waste management and public health/environmental protection. Read more. Lawrence Lecture Board of Trustees Search for Nominees The Board of Trustees for the Lawrence Lecture Fund would like your help in the search for nominees. All Chapters and individual Members are encouraged to submit their nominations for this award. Read more. SWANA's Hickman Intern Program Seeking Partners The SWANA Hickman Intern Program Committee is soliciting proposals from solid waste management operating (public or private) systems and facilities, consulting firms, research organizations and universities as partners for the 2010 Hickman Intern. Read more. AAEE Excellence In Environmental Engineering Competition Kicks Off Now in its 21st year, the American Academy of Environmental Engineers' Excellence in Environmental Engineering Awards recognizes and promotes world-class, state of the art practice in Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Practices. (This includes solid waste facilities!) Read more. Solicitation for Applications from Candidates for the Position of International Secretary for FY 2011 It’s the time of year when the SWANA Nominating Committee starts looking for candidates for the International Secretary position. Read more. Heidi Sanborn Named as Keynote Speaker for SWANA's 2010 "Thinking Outside the Blue Box" Conference SWANA is pleased to announce that Heidi Sanborn, National Outreach Director for the Product Policy Institute (PPI), has been named as the keynote speaker for SWANA’s 2010 Thinking Outside the Blue Box Conference. Read more. SWANA Offers First Spanish Language Training Course SWANA has recently completed the translation of its first Spanish language training course, Waste Screening at MSW Management Facilities. Read more. Training and Education We are committed to expanding training and certification opportunities for our members. Read more. Certification CEU Verification, Certified Faculty, New Certification Level, and becoming SWANA Certified. Read more. Career Center Looking for a job? An employee? Check out the SWANA Career Center to find what you need. Read more.

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From: Lynne Pledger <pledger@...>
To: GreenYes@googlegroups.com,
 "gaia-members@... list general" <gaia-members@...>
Subject: [GreenYes] Boston Globe coverage of moratorium announcement
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:23:04 -0500

The Globe article below quotes Clean Water Action and Sierra Club Massachusetts, two of the eight founding member organizations of Don't Waste Massachusetts, an alliance that formed a year ago to work for strong waste reduction programs instead of more disposal facilities.
 
State to keep ban on new incinerators
By David Abel, Globe Staff  |  December 12, 2009

After a yearlong review, environmental officials announced yesterday that they are continuing a 15-year-old moratorium on expanding or building new incinerators.

The review was part of the state’s effort to revise its solid-waste master plan and reduce the 1.5 million tons of trash it exports every year.

State officials had sparked controversy this year as they held public meetings around the state to consider revising regulations that have blocked the expansion of existing plants since 1994. New incinerators have been banned since 1990.

“We are serious about managing the waste we generate in a way that saves money for cities and towns, curbs pollution, and protects the environment,’’ Governor Deval Patrick said in a statement. “There are better ways than traditional incineration"...

Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Ian Bowles said the master plan would strengthen the moratorium by reducing the amount of recyclable material going into the waste stream. It will also develop new standards for existing waste-to-energy facilities that require higher recycling rates, lower emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants, and higher efficiency in energy conversion...

State officials said they expect to issue a new draft of the solid-waste master plan in early 2010.

David Abel can be reached at dabel@.... 

For the rest of the story, go to:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/12/12/state_to_keep_ban_on_new_incinerators/

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• Consumer Electronics: The Administration calls for passage of comprehensive producer responsibility legislation for discarded electronics, the so-called “E-Waste” bill, relieving municipalities of this burden.
• Expanded Bottle Bill: The Administration urges approval of an expanded bottle bill to cover water and sports drink bottles, which will reduce litter, increase recycling rates for containers from the fastest-growing segment of beverages, and provide additional resources to support local recycling efforts.
• New Protections for Communities: The Administration will seek greater authority for MassDEP to intervene in problem landfills, such as the one on Crow Lane in Newburyport, and new authority to require waste haulers to provide full recycling services to their customers.
• Helping Municipalities Increase Recycling Rates: The Administration will work with the Legislature, municipalities, and stakeholders to devise new standards and programs to help cities and towns reach higher rates of recycling by offering assistance for municipalities to adopt more effective methods, such as single-stream recycling, which eliminates the need for households to sort their recyclables.

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From: Gigie Cruz <gigie@...>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:35:58
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Subject: [GAIA] News: Turning trash into treasure in Cairo

Hi,
here's an interesting news on the Garbage City in Cairo.

best,
Gigie


Turning trash into treasure in Cairo

http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/breakingnews/view/20091214-241955/Turning-\
trash-into-treasure-in-Cairo**

Photo
THIS solar panel installed on a rooftop in Cairo is another attempt to
help curb pollution and produce cleaner energy. AFP

CAIRO, Egypt—In an attempt to help curb the city's stifling pollution
and meet their energy needs too, a few Cairo families have begun to
recycle waste—now that the nation's pigs are gone—by generating biogas
from rubbish.

It is an ambitious project that is still in its infancy but may just
catch on in this teeming city of 18 million people, often obscured in a
dirty grey veil of haze produced mainly by the fumes from millions of
car exhausts.

The idea has taken added urgency since the slaughter earlier this year
of the nation's pigs—wiped out on government orders supposedly to
prevent the spread of swine flu—which would otherwise have eaten much of
the waste.

The plan to transform organic waste into alternative energy was started
by an American, Thomas Culhane, in east Cairo's Manshiet Nasser slums,
which are known locally as Garbage City.

He runs Solar Cities, a non-governmental organization that looks to
design and develop technologies that solve very local problems.

Following a grant from the US Agency for International Development
(USAID) in 2007, he has been installing solar panels to produce hot
water for families in Garbage City.

This is where thousands of freelance trash collectors called zabaleen,
who are mainly Coptic Christians, hand-sort through tons of rubbish
collected from the streets of the megalopolis and then sell recyclable
material.

The idea was well received and began to spread to the neighboring mainly
Muslim area of Darb al-Ahmar, prompting Culhane and Hanna Fathy, a
Manshiet Nasser resident involved in the scheme, to offer families
"biogas digesters."

Made from two simple plastic tanks and tubes, the digesters convert
organic matter into biogas through a process in which bacteria decompose
the matter to produce methane for cooking and fertilizer which can then
be resold.

"One man's garbage is another man's gold mine. One woman's trash is
another woman's treasure," Culhane said.

The alternative would be that "I would be throwing this garbage out in
the streets, there would be rats, flies, cats, and dogs."

The solar panels allow a family of 10 to save around 30 Egyptian pounds
($5.4) a month, and biogas trims a further 10 pounds monthly.

This can mean valuable savings in Egypt, where the average household
salary is around $100 a month.

So far, however, Solar Cities has installed just 30 solar panels and
seven biogas digesters.

The main hurdle is cost. Solar panels cost up to 2,400 Egyptian pounds
and the digesters cost 700 Egyptian pounds, in a country where gas and
fuel are heavily subsidized by the government.

"It's a very good system which has a future here, especially now that
they have killed our pigs," insists Fathy, who says he remains
optimistic about the project despite the obstacles.

In May, Egypt ordered the slaughter of the nation's 250,000 pigs as part
of swine flu prevention measures, even though the World Health
Organization said that taking such a drastic measure was not
scientifically justified.

The pigs, which ate the teeming city's organic waste, were already
involved in a recycling process that provided revenue for their owners.

"In the past they fed the organic waste to the pigs but even the pigs
could not eat it all," Culhane said.

"Now the pigs are gone and there is nothing to transform Cairo's organic
waste into safe products except biogas digesters."

"I miss the sound of the pigs," Fathy said, gesturing to the slum's
rooftops where the zabaleen have now taken to raising goats and chickens.

"These animals can't swallow what the pigs use to," he said.

"We don't have big goals, we just want to be catalysts, to spread seed
by seed a garden of solutions that make sense," Culhane said.

If the systems were applied on a large scale, he said, "we could solve
50 percent of Egypt's pollution problem and eliminate mechanically the
organic garbage problem."

Solar Cities has approached other local organizations, including the
Association for the Protection of the Environment (APE) and the
Association of Garbage Collectors, to try to promote their projects.

Culhane's group built biogas digesters for them to showcase the
technology locally.

"We won't convince people if they don't see it for themselves," Fathy said.

Laila Iskandar Kamel is an environmental and social activist who runs
the Community and Institutional Development group (CID), a consulting
group that specializes in waste management.

She said the project is a "good idea," but also believes that "in
addition to the organic waste, it should make use of the human waste
because there is a serious problem of seepage in the neighborhood."






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In Sacramento, that will air @ 3 pm PST.

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From: RecycleWorlds
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 6:23 PM
Subject: 121 Cities in Report Show Path to Doubling Landfill Diversion

EMBARGOED to Wednesday, January 20, 2010
 
    Attached [and pasted in below] is a news announcement releasing a new report, funded in part by EPA Region 9, which found 121 cities with expanded composting programs that show how current rates of landfill diversion can be increased from about 1/3 to more than 2/3 of discards -- and potentially produce sufficient savings to pay for most of the costs. 
 
    Also included are five graphics and photographs, and a 2 page summary, for which permission to reprint is granted.
 
                                                                                Peter Anderson
 
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Peter Anderson, Executive Director
CENTER for a COMPETITIVE WASTE INDUSTRY
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Madison, WI 53705
(608) 231-1100 - Fax (608) 233-0011
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century, separating food scraps and soiled paper, along with grass clippings and leaves, for centralized composting has emerged as a key activity households can do to stave off global warming," Anderson said. The chart along side shows the distribution of composting programs by state and province found in the study. Sixty-six of the programs were in the U.S. and 55 were in Canada. (More graphics and a two page summary are attached and permission is granted to reprint.)



Chief reasons communities reported to compost food scraps and soiled paper (called source-separated organics), instead of burying them in the ground, included –

• A major reduction in greenhouse gas emissions
• A significant reduction in threats from groundwater pollution
• An increase in overall diversion rates

Other key findings of the report are that –

• Diversion of more than 3/4 of our food, soiled paper and yard trimmings, which together comprise over half of household discards, is feasible
• Proven techniques exist to dramatically reduce the cost of expanded composting by changing trash collection from weekly to every two weeks or even monthly

Copies of the report are available at

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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:23:09 -0800
Subject: Rethinking Plastics - powerful upcoming conference in Marin
From: Green Mary <green.greenmary@...>

Dear green friends,
Here is a very educational, comprehensive upcoming educational event focused on plastics.  Sorry for the late send, it's this Thurs-Sat, with Saturday's all day event in San Rafael a full-day, powerful exploration of plastics in our lives and environment, including a session on bioplastics. It's being put on by Green Sanga's Rethinking Plastics, a committee formed out of this larger SF Bay Area-based spiritual community dedicated to environmental action, and sponsored by several Bay Area organizations.  Read on for full details.

 

Green Sangha is pleased to announce a major conference on plastics in Marin County this month, one of our premiere events of the year.  The program is rich and diverse – with outstanding presenters, ideas, and conversations.  You can go to our website for the latest description of the event:  http://greensangha.org/rethinking-plastics-201/ (also copied below.)  The website also has bios of speakers.

You may attend one or all of the sessions as your schedule allows.  Please pass this along to everyone you know with an interest in sustaining our planet.  This conference will provide much-needed information, inspiration, and a springboard for effective action.

 

Yours in peace,

Stuart Moody

Rethinking Plastics Campaign Director

 

RETHINKING PLASTICS 201

You are invited to a conference for concerned citizens in Marin County and the Bay Area.  Our goal is to increase understanding of the plastics plague and to empower citizen-activists, business leaders, and civic officials to make changes at home, in the marketplace, and in the halls of government. 

Rethinking Plastics 201 is generously supported by the Marin Community Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation, and individual donors to Green Sangha.

Schedule:

Thursday, Jan 21, 7:00-9:30 pm. Symposium: Awakening the Dreamer: an introduction to the challenges and opportunities of our age. Led by the Pachamama Alliance. Environmental Classroom, Marin Sanitary Service, 535 Jacoby Street, San Rafael, CA.  Donation requested (all donations over $11 will receive a copy of the newly released Sustainable World Sourcebook published by Vinit Allen).

Friday, Jan 22, 7:30-9 pm. Public lecture: Rethinking Plastics, Rethinking Our Lives. Speakers:  Debbie Raphael, San Francisco Department of the Environment, toxics expert; Eben Schwartz, Marine Debris Program Manager, California Coastal Commission.  Sponsored by Whole Foods Market.  Free.

Saturday, Jan 23, 10 am – 5 pm. Workshop: Ending the Plague of Plastic Pollution. Center for Volunteer and Nonprofit Leadership, 555 Northgate Drive, San Rafael.  Fee: $50.  Partial scholarships available; ask when you call to register.

About Thursday's Symposium:

Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream, explores the current state of our planet from a broad perspective and connects participants with the powerful global movement to reclaim our future. 

If you are ready to be disturbed, inspired, moved to action, and introduced to a thriving community of committed citizens, then please join us in exploring the most critical concerns of our times.  You will discover new opportunities to make a real difference -- accelerating the emergence of an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and socially just human presence on this planet.

For more information on the symposium, please visit www.awakeningthedreamer.org.

Saturday Conference Agenda:

·         10:00      Plastics in Our Ocean:  A Report from Midway Island

·         10:20      Plastics Chemistry, Waste-to-Energy, and Global Climate

·         11:00       Toxicity of Plastics

·         11:15        Bio-sourced Plastics:  Their Nature and Their Potential

·         12:00      The Heart of Sustainable Activism:  Awakening and Purpose

·         12:40      Zero-waste Lunch (Whole Foods)

·         1:30         Blueprint for Change:  Four Steps to End the Plague

·         1:45         Extended Producer Responsibility

·         2:40        Cradle-to-Cradle:  How Do We Close the Loop?

·         3:30        From Personal Journey to Systemic Change

·         4:15         Putting It All Together

·         4:45        Meditation

·         5:00        Networking

 

Saturday speakers:

Manuel Maqueda, Environmental Strategist, Co-founder Plastic Pollution Coalition

Solvig Palm-Nicholls, Chemistry instructor and past president Environmental Forum of Marin

Stuart Moody, Director, Rethinking Plastics

Glen Baldwin, Bioplastics Specialist, CalRecycle

Jonathan Gustin, MFT, founder of Green Sangha

Chrise de Tournay Birkhahn, Executive Director, EcoMom Alliance

Heidi Sanborn, co-founder and director, California Product Stewardship Council (www.calpsc.org)

Thomas Wright, Sustainable Business Practices ( www.sustainablebiz.com)

Beth Terry, Green Sangha board of directors and web activist (fakeplasticfish.com)

Eliminating plastic pollution in California

Green Sangha is working with County and city governments on plastics reduction measures such as polystyrene bans and green purchasing policies. We are also promoting a state-level Extended Producer Responsibility framework as a linchpin to sustainability. This winter our primary action is a county-wide collaboration with the County of Marin, EcoMom Alliance, iReuse.com, and Teens Turning Green to ban single-use bags at all retail stores. BYOBag Marin is the name of this collaborative effort, which includes Bring Your Own Bag Day each third Saturday of the month until Earth Day 2010.

Rethinking Plastics 201 is our major event in January – a time to bring citizens, business owners, and policy makers together to consider the implications of plastic pollution and chart our path to a sustainable world.

To register, please contact Elizabeth Little at (510) 532-6574 or send a message via our Contact Form.

 

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To: <JTRProfessionalRecyclersNetwork@yahoogroups.com>
From: "Jacobs (Glansberg), Linda" <LJACOBS@...>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:23:15 -0500
Subject: [JTRProfessionalRecyclersNetwork] Buffalo Reuse deconstructs a home on Exteme Makeover: Home Edition

For anyone who missed it, last night's episode of Extreme Makeover:Home Edition featured the first time ever that the show deconstructed rather than demolished a home.  The episode took place in Buffalo NY and can be viewed here, including the

http://abc.go.com/shows/extreme-makeover-home-edition   The 15 hour deconstruction (collapsed into all of three seconds of time lapse photography!) and related interviews are in the first half.

Buffalo Reuse, a not-for-profit deconstruction, building materials reuse and neighborhood preservation organization deconstructed the house and much of what was salvaged was diverted to their store for sale back into the community.

http://www.buffaloreuse.org/Extreme/Extreme
http://www.buffaloreuse.org/

WasteCap Resource Solutions was also on site in Buffalo to assist with recycling the C&D material calculating the overall recycling rate: http://www.wastecapwi.org/

Linda (Jacobs) Glansberg
Environmental Services Unit
Empire State Development
30 South Pearl St.
Albany, New York  12245
(518) 292-5346
(518) 292-5886 fax

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1. What is the purpose of the Poll?
2. How scientific is a simple poll like this?
3. What is the audience?
   

 

Please vote ASAP and forward to your networks!

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 20:29:31 -0800

To: crra_members@yahoogroups.com < crra_members@yahoogroups.com>

Subject: [CRRA] new poll at Waste Recycling News - Do you think zero waste is possible?

Do you think zero waste is possible? Vote in the Waste & Recycling News Poll.

To vote, go to: http://www.wasterecyclingnews.com/headlines.html

Click on the poll on the right hand side.

 

 

 

Julie Muir

juliem@...

650-321-4236 ext 21

 

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Apologies for Cross-Postings; Please forward to colleagues who may be interested

• Annual Conference – Affiliate with Resource Recycling to hold a conference in the fall of 2010. This will also be an occasion to convene additional meetings on governance, organizational needs, and procedural issues, and offer networking opportunities.
• Advocacy - Form coalitions with affiliated and likeminded organizations on an issue by issue basis to influence policy makers at both the local and national level.
• Magazines and Digital Newsletters - Discounts to trade journals for members. Free Resource Recycling and BioCycle for one year to all RONA member organizations. Free E-Scrap News, Plastics Recycling Update and Resource Recycling e-newsletters to all member organizations.
• Bi Monthly News Letter to Executive Directors/Pres of Boards covering organizational development assistance such as membership recruitment and retention, conference organizing, fundraising, publications, websites, electronic communications, etc.
• Provide other tools to RO executives on:

  Board management

  Nonprofit management

  Provide speakers bureau for conferences

  MORE -

  Job Board - Promote job openings, and people looking for jobs in recycling.
  
  RONA-U - is the collegiate group, tasked by RONA to better connect higher education and the recycling industry.  A training center, job board, and discounts to publications and equipment are just a few of ways higher education and professional recyclers can connect through RONA-U. RONA-U is an EPA WasteWise endorser for universities and connects colleges to the compliment of resources the US EPA maintains. RONA-U promotes and contributes to AASHE's Campus Sustainability Discussion Forum and will partner with RecycleMania to help advance their waste minimization competition.  Responding to the groundswell of student interest, RONA-U is developing training and certification programs. The group is also firing up its advocacy role with a student-led " Zero Waste for Zero Warming" campaign and support for the national "Recycling Works" campaign. A short interest survey is available at www.recyclingorganizations.org/rona-u .
  
  Develop other councils for businesses, government, industry and other topic groups. This might include:
  
  Markets Council – to address processing, market, commodity and market development issues
  
  Business Council – to represent the interests and address the concerns of businesses and industry
  
  Community Recycling Council – for local government, non-profits, program managers and collectors
  
  Organics Council – will bring composters and other organic material recyclers together to facilitate networking and information exchange as part of a comprehensive material diversion strategy
  
  Policy Council – to advocate RONA’s positions on legislation, policy and practices
  
  Professional Development Council – to support professional development efforts among member organizations by facilitating sharing of program resources and establishing standards for training programs
  Listservs - Organize interactive listservs for members to join by categories of interest. Organize announcement listserv to send to all members of all affiliated organizations for promoting affiliate events. Free web hosting on servers powered by renewable energy sources for RONA members as long as they are members.
  We hope that you will help us in building a strong coalition throughout North America by joining RONA, participating in governance, programs or councils, and sharing your knowledge and experience with others through meetings, seminars, teleconferences, webinars, email groups, newsletters and any of the other many ways RONA will facilitate communication and education. It is absolutely vital to recycling that we work to re-establish broad industry representation on the national and international level that will represent the interests of recycling professionals and advocates.
  
  Please join us in making this happen. Please visit us on the web at www.recyclingorganizations.org.
  
  

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To: <crra_members@yahoogroups.com>
From: "Lacaze, Skip" <skip.lacaze@...>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 08:54:47 -0800
Subject: [CRRA] Single-use Bag MEA released today --  FW: Green Cities CA Releases Report on Single-Use Bags

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From: Green Cities California on behalf of Green Cities California
Sent: Mon 3/8/2010 8:41 AM
To: Lacaze, Skip
Subject: Green Cities CA Releases Report on Single-Use Bags


Dear Friend,

Today Green Cities California (GCC) released a Master Environmental Assessment (MEA) on the impacts of single-use and reusable bags.

The report - commissioned by GCC with the support and collaboration of multiple partners - was completed by ICF International. Set within the context of the California Environmental Quality Act, it will help jurisdictions prepare environmental impact reports, a critical step in the process to promote the use of reusable bags.

The MEA is available now for free on http://greencitiescalifornia.org/mea

Kind regards,

Carol Misseldine, Coordinator
Green Cities California


For Immediate Release                                                        

 

Contacts:

Carol Misseldine, Coordinator                                                                         

Green Cities California                                                                                     

(415) 388-5273                                                                                                          

 

Terry Rivasplata

ICF International

(916) 231-9537

 

Paper or Plastic? Neither!

New report will help cities promote reusable grocery bags

 

March 8, 2010 - Green Cities California (GCC) announced today the release of its Master Environmental Assessment (MEA) on Single Use and Reusable Bags. The MEA, commissioned by GCC and developed by ICF International's Sacramento office, summarizes existing studies on the environmental impacts of single use plastic, paper, compostable and reusable bags, as well as the impacts of policy options such as fees and bans on bags.

 

"This is a first-of-its-kind comprehensive compilation of existing studies on bags aligned within the context of CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act), which makes it useful in the preparation of local Environmental Impact Reports (EIRs)," said Terry Rivasplata of ICF International.

 

"All Environmental Impact Reports must begin with a survey of existing scientific literature," said Carol Misseldine. "For those jurisdictions that must prepare an EIR in order to adopt ordinances that promote the use of reusable bags, this MEA will provide essential assistance."

                                                               

The MEA reviewed studies that document environmental impacts from the use of all four types of bags studied, including greenhouse gas emissions, persistent litter problems, marine life impacts, water consumption and ozone formation.  The report also examined the impact of fees and bans and noted that bag use drops dramatically - up to 90% -- when stores charge for them.

 

Further studies referenced in the MEA indicate that reusable bags, on a per use basis, have substantially lower environmental impacts than single use bags.  The study finds that even with a minimum of three uses, reusable bags can result in less atmospheric acidification, ground level ozone formation, water use, and greenhouse gas emissions.

 

"I'm getting calls from jurisdictions throughout California and even from other parts of the country interested in the information contained in this document," said Misseldine. "There seems to be a lot of interest nationwide in reducing single bag use."

 

"We're not going to recycle our way to a sustainable society," said Dean Kubani, GCC Steering Committee member and Director of Santa Monica's Office of Sustainability. "We need to orient away from single use and towards durable products. We are confident that this report will provide the documentation local governments need to adopt policies that encourage the use of reusable bags and phase out single use bags."

 

The full report, an executive summary and background information on the MEA will be available on Green Cities California's website on Monday March 8^th at www.greencitiescalifornia.org/mea.

 

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CRRA Zero Waste classes in San Francisco, March 29-30

Rick Anthony and I will be teaching a class on March 29 on
Introduction to Zero Waste, the Foundation for Resource Management.
See description below. For more details on this class, go to:
http://www.crra.com/certifications/courses/101B_expanded.shtml

Stephanie Barger will be teaching a class on March 30 on Beyond
Recycling: How Businesses Get to Zero Waste. See description below.
For more details on this class, go to:
http://www.crra.com/certifications/courses/beyond_recycling.shtml

I hope that you or a colleague may be able to join us for one of
these classes to help move California forward towards the State's
adopted goal of Zero Waste.

These classes are part of a CRRA program aimed at training and
certifying recycling and resource management professionals. For more
details on the overall certification program, please go to:
http://www.crra.com/certifications/index.shtml

>Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:20:10 -0500 (EST)
>From: "Judi Gregory, CRRA Certification Manager" <info@...>
>Subject: Resource Management: Certification and Training in San Francisco
>
>Mark your calendar to join CRRA on March 29 - 30, 2010 in San
>Francisco.  CRRA will be providing a training series for individuals
>enrolled in the Resource Management Certification Program, as well
>as for those seeking additional training in the fields of Zero
>Waste, Recycling, Composting and Resource Management.
>
>Register by March 15, 2010 and save $25 on each course (see
>earlybird rates below). Check the schedule of courses below for more
>information.  See you in San Francisco!
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>Location:
>EPA Buidling
>75 Hawthorne St.
>San Francisco
>
>Introduction to Zero Waste the Foundation for Resource Management
>Monday, March 29, 2010 - 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
>Instructors: Gary Liss & Richard Anthony
>This workshop is intended to provide a solid foundation of
>understanding the broad features and issues of zero waste, the
>foundation to resource management. The impetus in the industry is
>towards zero waste management, and practitioners need to know and
>understand the history, technology, socio-economics, communications,
>ecology, and application of zero waste principles to real world
>problems of wasting. Zero Waste Businesses are leading the way for
>Zero Waste and have diverted over 90% of their waste from landfill
>and incineration. Zero Waste Communities have adopted Zero Waste
>goals and plans to implement those goals. Join us to understand how
>Zero Waste can be a key part of community and business
>sustainability plans and help contribute to reducing greenhouse
>gases and global
>cooling.
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>  Here for More Information on this Course
>
>Beyond Recycling
>Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 9:30 AM - 3:00 PM
>Instructor: Stephanie Barger
>"Beyond Recycling: How Businesses Get To Zero Waste" class (aka
>"Zero Waste Business" class) will build on the introductory
>information provided in the CRMTI Clean Production class and
>Introduction to Zero Waste courses. In particular, this class will
>review the Zero Waste Business Principles, then go into detail on
>how to implement those principles for a particular business to
>achieve Zero Waste. Examples will be given of how different
>companies have addressed different issues that have come up in
>pursuing Zero Waste.
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>Course Credit: 4 Hours  -  Prerequisites: Intro to Zero Waste or
>Clean Business
>
>Registration Info:
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>
>2010 Course Fees
>The following fees will apply.
>Earlybird Rates: Register by March 15, 2010
>    * Member 4-hour Course: $125
>    * Member 6-hour course: $195
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>    * Non-member 6-hour Course: $250
>    * Testing & Certification fee $15 per course
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>and $1210 for non-members.
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>automatically save 20%  on all certification courses.  Members also
>receive discounts to the Annual Conference, access to the members
>listserv, a membership directory, and MUCH, MUCH more.
>
>Registration Opens 30 minutes prior to the course starts. Please
>plan to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the start of your
>class.  NO ON-SITE PAYMENTS WILL BE ALLOWED AT THE EPA
>BUILDING.  PRE-PAY REQUIRED.
>
>About Our Program
>CRRA has developed a program aimed at certifying and training
>recycling and resource management professionals.  This program is
>one that will benefit individuals working in the recycling,
>composting, reuse, resource management and solid waste management
>fields.  The coursework will provide individuals with training
>valuable for enhancing employable skills.  Whether a person is new
>to the industry, or a seasoned professional, this program is
>designed to give an in depth understanding of the skills and
>technical expertise required for success in the recycling and
>resource management fields.
>
>For More Information
>Contact:
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>Other Classes Also being Held in San Francisco:
>Business Recycling Tools
>Monday, March 29, 2010 - 9:30 AM - 3:00 PM
>Instructors: Richard Gertman & Tracie Bills
>Integrated Resource Management (IRM) has replaced Integrated Waste
>Management (IWM) as the way of managing materials use, from
>purchasing practices, through use to finding alternate uses for
>no-longer-wanted materials. By using resources efficiently,
>businesses can achieve significant savings and reduce the amount of
>waste generated. Business systems should be designed and implemented
>that reduce the amount of resources used to deliver a given amount
>of products or services to their customers. This course will
>evaluate how Cities can design and implement programs to help
>businesses, and how businesses can take advantage of the systems
>available to them.
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>Course Credit: 4 Hours  -  Prerequisites: NONE
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>Introduction to Organics Management and Composting
>Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 9:30 AM - 3:00 PM
>Instructor: Matthew Cotton
>Introduction to Organics Management & Composting is designed as an
>introduction to the organic components of the waste stream and how
>to manage them. Over 50 percent of what is landfilled is generally
>comprised of organic materials and may be appropriate for composting
>or other diversion. There are important differences in the
>collection, processing and economics of organic materials (leaves,
>grass, brush, food scraps, etc.) and inorganic materials (i.e.,
>bottles and cans). Concepts to be covered include the organic
>components of the waste stream, the basics of separating and
>collecting organics, the basic principles of composting, and markets
>for diverted organic materials. The course will cover the importance
>of beneficial reuse of organics, reasons for diverting organics,
>principles and practices of composting, and other organic waste
>diversion methods, and a review the major markets or diverted
>organics.
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        Fostering Sustainable Behavior <fsb@...>, soc-mktg@...,
         greengov@..., JTRProfessionalRecyclersNetwork@yahoogroups.com
From: Kelley Dennings <kdennings@...>
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:46:08 -0400
Subject: [JTRProfessionalRecyclersNetwork] New Social Marketing Technical Assistance Web Page from NC

Thanks to lots of hard work by our interns, we now have a Web site dedicated to social marketing as it relates to recycling ( http://www.p2pays.org/socialmarketing/index.asp). Not only is the site an update of the REACT manual, but we also have lots of new local government examples scattered throughout the pages.

For example -
- What other communities have conducted surveys or focus groups? < http://p2pays.org/socialmarketing/barriers.asp>
- Want to know which local governments use incentives, check it out here < http://p2pays.org/socialmarketing/incentives.asp>.
- What exactly is a block leader? < http://p2pays.org/socialmarketing/norms.asp>
- Looking for good sample prompts, click here < http://p2pays.org/socialmarketing/prompts.asp>.
- Does your local government brochure have "all the right stuff?" <http:/ p2pays.org/socialmarketing/communication.asp>

Please feel free to email me with your comments.
--
Kelley Dennings, Education and Outreach Project Manager
Certified Environmental Educator, NC State Project Management Certification
NC DENR, Division of Pollution Prevention and Environmental Assistance
1639 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1639
919-355-8102
Check out our campaigns: http://www.RecycleGuys.org, http://www.RE3.org, http://recyclemorenc.org/
 Other ways to get a hold of me:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kelleydennings
http://re3org.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/re3org

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:55:34 -0400
Subject: [GreenYes] Free Training via Reuse Alliance (Launch of Master Reuser)
From: MaryEllen Etienne <maryellen@...>
To: GreenYes@googlegroups.com

Dear Colleagues,

I'm thrilled to announce the launch of Master Reuser®, Reuse Alliance's "train the trainer" certificate program. This webinar-based training program allows us to support reuse sector organizations from around the country in cost-effective, time-efficient, and eco-friendly manner. Master Reuser® encompasses two separate modules of training: Reuse Sector Training (recruiting now) and Community Advocate Training (coming soon).

The Reuse Sector Training Module is expressly designed for senior managers of reuse enterprises (non-profit or for-profit). The technical assistance provided not only improves individual skills in strategic thinking, marketing, and project development, it can also improve the effectiveness of the participant's organization by allowing them to take the skills gained from the program to help train staff and volunteers. The series includes (8) 2-hour interactive webinars featuring a professional facilitator and guest speakers. Topics covered include Project Planning and Evaluation, Board & Volunteer Management; Risk & Liabilities, Budgeting, Traditional & Social Marketing, Strategic Partnerships, and Warehousing. The training is free for our members (current or new), but space is limited. Due to the subject matter this training module is only appropriate for, and open to, RA members within our Partner category (1 person per member can participate). Support for Master Reuser® is being provided by the US EPA. 

To apply for the Reuse Sector Training Module, please submit a completed application by March 29, 2010 (this includes your application and your supervisor’s recommendation). You will be notified of your application status by April 5th, and the first workshop is scheduled for April 21st (mark your calendars). 

Please visit our website for more information. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me.

Regards,
MaryEllen

MaryEllen Etienne
Executive Director
Reuse Alliance
www.reusealliance.org
maryellen@...

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October 18-20, 2010 in Raleigh/Durham, NC.

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From: "Bill Sheehan" <bill@...>
To: <PS_Coordination@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Put Products and Packaging into US Greenhouse Gas Inventory -- Comments by April 8th
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:16:43 -0400

Submit Comments on the Draft US Greenhouse Gas Inventory

EPA’S draft update of the US Greenhouse Gas Inventory (1990 – 2008) is open for comment. This is a great opportunity to get the systems -based, greenhouse gas accounting view added to the US Inventory.

While the US Inventory is required to follow international protocols (for the sake of consistency with other nations), EPA does have the latitude to include additional analysis, and to more clearly explain what the inventory is – and isn’t – portraying.  

Both an EPA report and a Product Policy institute White Paper issued in September 2009 showed that products and packaging (or goods and materials) are responsible for the largest share, by far, of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions – 44% when you include global emissions of products produced abroad and consumed in the US.  Links to both PPI and EPA reports and a New York Times article are at http://www.productpolicy.org/content/climate-change-epr

Comments are due by April 8.  

To view the draft and submit a comment online, go to http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/usinventoryreport_comment.html .

Please ask EPR (in your own words) to consider the following:

1.    The US Inventory should integrate the systems-based view and present it alongside the traditional sector-based view.  EPA recently published a “ systems-based view”
< http://www.epa.gov/oswer/docs/ghg_land_and_materials_management.pdf > see chart, p. 11, of GHG emissions.  Coupled with the traditional sector-based view, the systems-based view offers a much more comprehensive perspective on how the US contributes to GHG emissions.  The general public and local policy makers find the systems-based view to be very informative and instructional in developing personal and policy actions to address climate change.  

2.    Consumption-related emissions should be formally acknowledged in the US Greenhouse Gas Inventory.  The US Greenhouse Gas Inventory should be much more explicit in stating that the inventory is limited to emissions that physically originate within the national borders of the US.  It should explain that the US also contributes to emissions that are counted in the inventories of other nations, as a consequence of imports.  The emissions associated with US exports are less than those associated with US imports.  When viewed from the perspective of consumption, the greenhouse gas impact of the US is higher than suggested by the traditional IPCC accounting standard.  This is of great importance: consumption is the root cause of emissions, and failure to at least acknowledge the impacts of consumption exposes EPA to unnecessary criticism that the US Inventory is providing an incomplete picture of how the nation contributes to emissions (and indirectly, rewarding off-shoring of emissions and associated jobs).  

3.    Given the need to reduce the short-term impacts of greenhouse gases, it would be very helpful if the US Inventory portrayed results using both 100-year, and 20-year GWPs.  While the IPCC standards require the use of 100-year Global Warming Potentials (GWPs), the Inventory correctly points out that other GWPs are also available, and including that analysis would be helpful to planners, policymakers, and the public.

Thank you!


Bill Sheehan • Executive Director
Product Policy Institute
P.O. Box 48433 • Athens, GA 30604 • USA 
706-613-0710 • bill@...
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