21st Century Policy Project

Issues from the Issues Summit

Table 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

Table 1

1. Will the public continue to support the costs of AB939 programs etc. vs. other priorities: education - public safety?
2. What is the reasonable/acceptable ( law of diminished return) level of recycling?
3. What constitutes a good faith effort? How to judge it?
4. What do we do for jurisdictions that have achieved 50% goal? How do we encourage them to go beyond?
5. Will consolidation/privatization - within industry - facilitate or hinder further progress toward diversion?
6. How do we develop recycling markets? - incentives? How do we support recycling business development?
7. How do we create the incentive for individuals/households to reduce waste?
8. How can we encourage collaborative efforts to reduce waste generation?
9. Once 50% is reached - what is the next state program? How will it be funded?
10. Can we develop a common terminology for waste management regulation?
11. Will Congress impose restrictions/limitations on export of waste?
12. What do we do now that we know adequate landfill capacity exists? - What drove AB939?
13. How do we deal with - change in policy - direction/emphasis - economic reality - economic displacement (waste management infrastructure investment)?
14. How will we address environmental justice issues related to the siting of waste operations/facilities?
15. How will we serve underserved and diverse communities?
16. What impact will consolidations/mergers have on the cost of recycling?
17. What do we do about (potentially) high cost to achieve incremental increase in diversion rates: 40 - 45 - 50%?

Table 2

1. How do you resolve the balance between operations, innovation, and regulatory oversight?
2. When should regulatory oversight be: local - state - federal? Eliminate duplication. LEAs
3. Business retention vs. regulation - How do we advance diversion without driving away business? Partnership vs. punitive "Don't spank the child"
4. Should the AB939 definition of transformation be changed to promote new non-burn technologies?
5. How can we make the tax structure support the waste management hierarchy?
6. How can the CIWMB facilitate (promote!) a 1-stop permitting system for solid waste facilities within CalEPA? Air-water-land. A CalEPA permit. On-line.
7. With decentralized office product purchasing how can the CIWMB promote the purchase of recycled content products by state agencies?
8. 7= not just office products.
9. How can the CIWMB promote markets for recycled products?
10. How can the CIWMB support the assessment of technologies? For example, a Technical Assessment center.
11. Could the CIWMB fund research (UC or Nat'l labs) for new technologies?
12. Should the focus of AB939 be changed from preserving landfill capacity to promoting sustainability? Example: 50% of generation could mean no net decrease in impact.
13. Should the AB939 mandates be changed to goals? With no fines? Do the fines encourage performance? (As compared with other states that have goals without fines)
14. Should all jurisdictions have the same goal (%)?
15. Are we spending too much on enforcement and not enough on incentives?
16. What state agency (or combination of) is best equipped to develop and implement strategic market development plans for recovered materials: commerce, Food & Agriculture, CalTrans, Health…?
17. One Agency should be the recycling messenger: CIWMB, DOC.
18. State plan for procurement via hierarchy (compost, reuse, source reduction)
19. How can the CIWMB implement/promote source reduction without dampening economic development?
20. Over packaging
21. Clearinghouse for data related to waste management. Independent feasibility studies/business plans

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Table 3

1. How can CIWMB best encourage "social marketing" and socioeconomic marketing of source reduction to address changing diversity? (See #7)
2. If we move towards zero waste, what is the Waste Board's role? Is it needed?
3. How do we develop additional markets for materials?
4. There is an unfair playing field between subsidized virgin vs. secondary materials.
5. Price of recyclables fluctuates wildly, materials often cannot be sold. How or should the Board be involved in stabilizing production and flow of recycled materials?
6. "Truth in Measurement" - Are we measuring right things? Are they comparable and consistent? Confusion, manipulation and inconsistency in measurement lead to lack of confidence in ability to measure progress.
7. Issue - People don't understand we have limited resources and don't have incentives to conserve. (See #1)
8. Governmental roles are changing.
9. Large amount of bulk business mail, doesn't reflect cost of disposal.
10. Decrease in per capita generation not matching increase in population.
11. Should government be involved in setting product standards for recyclability, etc.?
12. Businesses resistant to environmental protection laws.
13. Cheaper to be dirty and create waste rather than prevent it.
14. How do we balance public health needs with current waste handling/recycling practices?
15. No real way to quantify the value of resources - underlying difficulty in valuation of natural resources - difficulty in valuing, quantifying and comparing costs and benefits.
16. Does the CIWMB and Legislature consider California as a "closed system" or look beyond borders?
17. Should waste management be based on "wastesheds" or regions as opposed to jurisdictions?
18. Overlap of CIWMB with other agencies, especially DOC.
19. Future funding of CIWMB.
20. Need for regular interaction/coordination among environmental agencies.
21. How to incorporate an incentive mentality as opposed to punitive?
22. Is effective communication being carried out throughout state? Need for regional systems?

Table 4                                                                                                  

1. How to create incentives for business to adopt sustainable business practices
2. How do you increase/maintain public support for recycling?
3. How to develop markets for recycled materials in a global economy?
4. How does California decide what waste streams provide the greatest opportunity to effect sustainability?
5. Auditing of AB939 compliance
6. Methods to identify the true costs of disposal vs. recycling (etc.)
7. Environmental costs of existing vs. new sanitary landfills (expansion).
8. How does CIWMB get to producer responsibility? (legislation?)
9. How does CIWMB put disposal costs upfront?
10. California to be market maker through its purchase power (public org.)
11. How does the CIWMB maintain recyclability of packaging.
12. How does CIWMB cover loss of revenue for exported waste?

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Table 5

1. How do we educate the public (decision makers, citizens, interest groups, each sector stakeholders) to understand the realities of recycling? - Cost and benefit - barriers - strategies?
2. How can entrepreneurial re-use and recycling businesses be encouraged, given the trend toward local flow control and franchise contracts?
3. How can we increase waste prevention in governmental and quasi-government (University of California, California State University, prisons) given the legal loopholes?
4. What should government's role be in waste prevention?
5. How does government develop its mandates, regulations and incentives so that they are flexible for local implementation, as appropriate or necessary for local conditions? - One size does not fit all!
6. How can CIWMB formulate relationships with local entities tailored to their individual needs and strengths?
7. How will Los Angeles, San Diego and other cities achieve and pay for maximum diversion given that their charters provide free residential garbage collection?
8. We need a comprehensive planning model for input/output.
9. When will the Board provide comprehensive, timely, integrated waste data for economic development/market development, waste and recycling facility planning and pricing considerations?
10. How can government encourage producer responsibility policies, given U.S. industry resistance?
11. How will coastal and bay communities deal with disposal sites flooded by rising sea levels?
12. How can government level the economic playing field? Virgin material subsidies (State/Federal) - garbage - externalities - regulations.
13. How can the Board lobby (influence) the federal government regarding issues that affect the state?
14. What's next, post 50% (2010)?
15. How are we going to get to 50%? When are we going to get to 50%?
16. How can we increase end-markets for recyclables, given that collection is increasing faster than markets?
17. How can we support source reduction and reuse when existing regulations and policies support and credit recycling over source reduction and reuse?
18. Given increased mergers, how can we protect smaller businesses and communities?
19. How will we mitigate the impacts of the contents of subtitle D landfills after the post-closure period and funds run out?
20. How can the Waste Board lead the public sector (federal, state and local government) to reduce waste, recycle, buy recycled products, as an example to the general public?
21. How can we identify (determine) the true cost of landfilling?
22. How can we modify RMDZ policies to support the role of small businesses in market development?
23. Government over-regulation, supported by large industry who can afford to comply, is wiping out the little guy, whose economy of scale doesn't allow for affordable compliance!!!

Table 6

1. Motivation - How do we keep industry and consumers interested and active in sustaining recycling and in protecting the environment?
2. How do we shift the focus beyond recycling?
3. Should AB939 apply to government agencies, state?
4. What is the most appropriate method in delivering and charging for waste services?
5. How is the CIWMB going to implement/enforce AB939?
6. What role does the state play in addressing the recycling flow control issue?
7. Who pays the cost for recycling?
8. How do we make sure that the true cost of disposal is reflected in the price?
9. How can the CIWMB deal with plastics recycling?
10. How can the CIWMB provide timely annual reviews?
11. How can the CIWMB maintain credibility, maintaining compliance, while being fair?
12. When is the CIWMB going to start taking enforcement action re: non-compliance with AB939?
13. (Residual transformation.) What role can the CIWMB take in support of new technologies and research and development in general?
14. (Siting of diversion infrastructure) What role can the CIWMB play in facilitating?
15. What goals is the Board going to set for developing and implementing technology into the millennium?
16. How can the CIWMB link/support providing recyclers with markets such as state run operations (CalTrans, prisons, etc.)?
17. Material specifications are from virgin materials, why not mandate recycled content or at least promote?
18. The need of the development of recycled materials specifications.
19. How can the CIWMB play a role to shift from the supply side to demand side?
20. How can we redefine market development to include more efficiency through source reduction/diversion etc.?
21. How can we play a role in advancement of industrial ecology?
22. What role can CIWMB play in landfill bans on C & D materials, including yard waste?

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Table 7

1. How will we utilize waste-to-energy to reduce landfilled material? And should we?
2. How will residuals (whatever is left behind) be managed in facilities other than landfills?
3. How can we stem rapid consumption and its associated waste in light of the increasingly affluent population and low cost & less disposable products & aggressive marketing/advertising?
4. How to promote alternatives to landfills?
5. What incentives (i.e. $, tax incentives) can government engage in to promote resource reduction?
6. Can we change legislation on diversion accounting? (i.e., not counting materials going to permitted facilities)
7. Are there viable alternatives to percent mandates?
8. Should we move to program implementation vs. percent mandates, accounting, measurement?
9. The cost in resources and time is a business disincentive to look at the issue of source reduction and diversion. Also, cost of collection infrastructure and education.
10. Can we maintain recyclables (i.e., feedstock) while moving toward single stream curbside?
11. How do we educate, encourage and stimulate the public in participating in recycling and source reduction programs?
12. Recycling has been promoted as the "total solution" to waste management issues!
13. What else can be done to stimulate manufacturers to reduce packaging?
14. Can we better quantify environmental benefits of secondary materials usage?
15. What can government and industry do to promote the use of recycled products?
16. How can the cost of environmentally preferred products be price/cost competitive?
17. Can we create incentives for recycling and source reduction without using landfill fees? Currently, recycling is not being capitalized.
18. To what extent can public researchers develop more and better by-products?
19. How to site needed waste management facilities.

Table 8

1. Artificially low landfill disposal cost discourages other environmentally sound options.
2. Continuation of virgin material subsidies.
3. Recycling industry invested based on 80's assumptions and mandates which don't match with 90's realities.
4. There is no integrated pricing in the system.
5. No meaningful procurement policies in place to provide demand aspect to supply side AB939 programs.
6. Our inability as a society to go past the lowest cost option (landfill disposal), to initiate much better technologies for the planet.
7. Government needs to mandate minimum recycled content specifications.
8. Lack of manufacturer responsibility.
9. 50% is only a number (we can't be bean counting)
10. CIWMB market development needs to be meaningful. Responsive, realistic (RMDZ)
11. CIWMB needs to assist in commercializing and facilitating emerging technologies (fuels, biochemical and municipal solid waste composting)
12. Advanced disposal fee absorbed by manufacturer or distributor that reflects true cost of disposal and redemption fee back to consumer for recycling.
13. Consider landfill bans for high volume, identifiable material.
14. How do we get away from landfilling?
15. Reuse needs to be #1 priority.
16. Board should consider landfill capacity on a regional basis.
17. We need procurement mandated on all levels of government.

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Table 9

1. How do you get the true price of landfills - too much landfill capacity at too low price - this is the reason diversional economy is not health.
2. How will CIWMB support manufacturer responsibility?
3. How to deal with increase of hazardous waste created from increased home health care due to increasingly aging population (batteries, medicines)?
4. How do we get incentives for manufacturers to design for recyclability?
5. How will Cal/EPA coordinate on issues such as the MTBE fiasco?
6. How do you capture people's interest? - too many competing interests.
7. How to design the product packaging for recycling? - goes back to manufacturer responsibility.
8. How to deal with NIMBY-ism of siting facilities - seen in worse light than virgin manufacturers - asphalt co. is seen better than a compost facility - people see waste as dirty - misconception.
9. How can we educate regulators more aware of the impacts of the decisions?
10. How do we get the CIWMB to base policy on the life cycle impact/benefits rather than just recyclability?
11. How do we get CIWMB to live up to their promise of making local government partners, e.g., grant extension policy didn't involve the grantees; no one knew of the change.
12. How do you get CIWMB to partner with other state agencies such as Department of Corporations?
13. How to get the CIWMB to deny a permit for a landfill that has a history of non- compliance?
14. How to keep organics out of landfills?
15. What happens after 2000 when local jurisdictions have reached the goal? - do they close up and go home?
16. How does the CIWMB maintain 50%, e.g., lowering the goals for a city?
17. How can this (50% goal) be reasonable for local jurisdictions who don't have the resources?
18. What's next after 50% goal?
19. Is diversion appropriate basis for goals, e.g., relatively, the worse you are in the beginning and implement programs, your percent goes up but for those who are doing well their diversion rate may not increase dramatically. Instead may be a per-capita waste generation goal measurement.
20. How do we get away from basing waste management on empirical data rather than behavior change, etc.
21. How should the CIWMB establish priorities in the real world when you can't do everything and faced with diminishing resources?
22. How do we change Board from political to socially responsible?
23. What is the role of the CIWMB after 2000? - time to fold up the tent.
24. How do you increase the visibility of the Board members throughout the state (Southern California does seem ignored)?
25. How to coordinate with DOR and CIWMB - overlap.
26. How to improve the quality of LEAs - have not been managing landfills well enough/increasing the consistency of regulatory oversight.
27. How do insure adequate funding for local governments to insure their regulatory programs (in the face of prop 13 & 2's)?
28. How does the Board encourage consumer responsibility?
29. How do we educate the public about the benefits of reuse?
30. How do we focus on the more problem materials like HHW? - too much spent on cans and bottles.
31. How do we make sure reuse is promoted as easier?
32. How can we make it more easy for businesses to make the paradigm shift?
33. How do we change consumer behaviors?
34. Is it appropriate for a government entity to get involved in trying to pursue manufacturers' responsibility?
35. What role does CIWMB play in pushing for a national waste management policy? - The only way to impact national manufacturers.
36. How to target the largest waste generators (Southern California)?
37. How can greater interaction occur between Board members and Southern California government and industry?
38. How we get more interaction between Board members and local city elected officials.
39. How can the Board better interact with Region IX EPA & EPA-Washington
40. How can the Board replicate its partnership philosophy with a greater number of elected local officials?

Table 10

1. Given the different waste streams, demographics and economics of local agencies should it be the policy of state to require same diversion goals for those localities?
2. Should the state maintain the current goal (diversion) in the absence of the analysis of overriding global/environmental costs?
3. Since state has mandated diversion goals for all local agencies, should not state also provide financial support to enable cities and counties to meet goals? -who pays & how?
4. To maximize diversion of solid waste that is disposed, should state policy provide for diversion credit?
5. How can we stimulate and create sustainable markets/user of recyclable materials?
6. Should industry/manufacturers share the waste reduction responsibility assigned to local government by AB939?
7. a. Do we need deposits (incentives) to recover consumer materials? (e.g.: will consumer do it on their own?)
7. b. What is the best collection point (of cost) to cover the cost of waste diversion activity?
8. a. Do we need to "mandate" recycling (regulate the 'generator')?
8. b. Where is the best place to initially drop off the waste: location -method -convenience?
9. What is the 'full cost' disclosure of recycling?
10. How do we make recycling profitable so that everyone will do it?
11. Should we increase landfill fees to increase waste diversion resource conservation?
12. Will increased landfill fees contribute to illegal dumping?
13. How do we provide for sustainability given the competing environmental risks associated with waste diversion programs vs. solid waste disposal?
14. How much would it cost to provide curbside collection, where feasible, statewide? How much diversion would happen?
15. What are the incentives for business and multi-family dwellings to recycle?
16. Should the rate payer public be provided with full cost disclosure of waste diversion disclosure costs?
17. Do we have a: a) "litter" problem b) illegal disposal problem?
18. How to pay for various upgrades and technological advances in solid waste collection -enterprise zones - other subsidies - tax exempt bonds - tax credits?
19. What are social risks of waste diversion/disposal policy and operations? Which communities' are impacted? How to fairly share the burden?
20. Do we need to revisit educating the public about solid waste reduction?
21. How to educate a more diverse population?
22. Should state help fund multi-media educational effort re: waste reduction?
23. Should there be consolidation of state solid waste agencies and recycling?

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Table 11

1. What role does CIWMB play in littering and illegal dumping resolution?
2. How does CIWMB plan to deal with cities/counties who do not meet 50% goal?
3. Should the CIWMB be promoting source separated recyclables (improve quality) or mixed recyclables (increased volume)?
4. How is CIWMB going to assist in evaluating new technologies to reach higher diversion levels?
5. Class II vs. class III waste. CIWMB - does class II count for reporting? Separate tipping fee, surcharge from what counts (i.e. disposal reporting)
6. CIWMB role re: changing hierarchy (AB939) advocate for W.T.E. (communities who rely on W.T.E.) need to be considered.
7. How will State balance economic development interests against AB939 compliance? What role does CIWMB play?
8. Environmental control priorities appear to be at bottom of list for financing.
9. What role does CIWMB play in encouraging/forcing local enforcement of commercial storage areas for collection of recyclables?
10. Why does DOC have 90% of funds and 2% of problem?
11. What should CIWMB's role be if no changes in AB939 beyond 2000 (Y2K)?
12. How will CIWMB resolve 50% diversion reporting vs. programs and other compliance?
13. How will CIWMB address communities that cannot meet 50% even all programs in good faith efforts have been met?
14. Disposal reporting is inconsistent and inaccurate.
15. Will anybody ever be fined or sanctions applied?
16. What should the CIWMB play in marketing/development?
17. Resource costs are not accurately captured and are unfairly manipulated by subsidies of virgin resources.
18. How can CIWMB promote teaming/collaborative projects between multiple government sources funding opportunities?
19. Landfill crisis vs. AB939 15 year disposal capacity requirements. Will CIWMB follow up?
20. What role shall CIWMB play in public education and involvement efforts?

Table 12

1. Deteriorating quality of commingled paper and how to improve it and impact markets? - subsidies collection/market for - collection and use of recycled products?
1. b. Should government have a role? - fees - quality - any material?
1. a. How to deal with problem of deteriorating quality of commingled paper and other materials? Should it be subsidized?
2. How to educate public about cause and effect of post-curbside collection.
3. Does government (state role, local role) have a role in moving business to source reduction?
4. Is it appropriate for the state to dictate minimum content with products made and sold in California?
5. Should state and local government be a visible leader for source reduction (buy recycled) and recycling?
6. What is role of CIWMB and state to encourage industries that use recycled materials to locate in California?
7. What will CIWMB do to enforce 50% after 2000?
8. Is the 50% baseline ("fix #") is this an appropriate standard?
9. Is it too late to change the rules? (i.e. change base year, what counts?)
10. Should the Board set a time certain to close non-Subtitle D landfills?
11. Should the Board subsidize the closure stated above?
12. Should bottle bill be expanded to all food or beverage containers/recyclable materials?
13. Should the Board pursue alternate regulations for operation of disposal facilities?
14. Does the state have a role in research - new waste management technology?
15. Should state revise definition of transformation?
16. Should the Board bureaucracy grow, stay the same, or shrink?
17. Should the Board reevaluate its mission?
18. How should the Board integrate with Cal/EPA?
19. Should RMDZ be transferred to Trade and Commerce Agency?
20. Should the Board look at other disposal beyond dry-tomb?
21. Can the Board determine regulatory obstacles for recycling (federal or state)?
22. Should Board take over bottle bill?
23. Should government make long-term effort to change individual belief and behavior toward source reduction/recycling? (i.e. drunk driving, smoking)
24. What is message to public when we get to 50%? How do we keep them interested/going /supporting, etc.?

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Table 13

1. What are the roles of the respective players in market development? Board/LEAs/Industry manufacturers/local govt./consumer
2. What is the goal and purpose of waste management after 2000? 50% diversion - zero landfills - new scheme
3. What are roles of entities in creating diversion infrastructure?
4. How can the Board get recognized for the expansion of its role from command and control to performance-based incentives?
5. How does the Board implement producer responsibility?
6. How do we balance Statewide standard with local/regional/agricultural sector needs?
7. How does the local govt./Board shift its focus from garbage and diversion to broader resource management/conservation and the environment?
8. How do we balance health and safety environmental concerns with recycling mandates? i.e.: white goods/toxic Board regulations.
9. How do we get the price right? "True cost", value of disposal/conservation/reuse
10. How do we make it politically and financially feasible to manage resources in an environmentally intelligent way?
11. How do we measure compliance in the future? - Avoid starting again with back-end retroactive policies?
12. What can be done to make RMDZ more active and effective? What is wrong?
13. How do we promote recycling in remote rural areas?

Table 14

1. How can we change emphasis from paperwork to programs to achieve AB939 goals?
2. How can the board best achieve the diversion goal without requiring paperwork (counting beans)?
3. How do we achieve a paradigm shift to the Board becoming a motivator versus regulator? To the board becoming a resource to achieve success?
4. How does the Board achieve a greater presence in Southern California?
5. How do we change to a system that does not promote waste generation?
6. How do you stabilize (equalize) disposal rates?
7. How can the board build collaborative relationships as opposed to combative (confrontational between locals) and still insure mandates are met?
8. How do we send a unified waste message?
9. How can we better address the issue of illegal dumping?
10. How does the Board prepare for the impact of privatization?
11. How do we go beyond 50%?
12. What is achievable (50%)?
13. How do we push the emphasis to the top of the hierarchy?
14. How do you make locals accountable without the numbers? What would a better system look like?
15. How do we motivate business (all generators) (local government role?) to recognize waste reduction?
16. Should flow control be a mechanism for achievement of AB939 goals?
17. How do we make the state accountable? (Walk the talk)
18. How can we encourage manufacturer responsibility (minimum content)?
19. Should the board consider "take back laws"?
20. Should the Board become an advocate for change, i.e.: eliminate the use of virgin material subsidy?
21. How can the Board improve the self sufficiency of markets?
22. How do we insure the AB939 programs protect public health? (Impact of composting operations?)
23. Should be Board adopt a sustainable development policy?
24. How can the Board incorporate the principles of sustainability?
25. How do we refocus the Board's activities to remediation and enforcement of the tire issue?
26. What is the Board role in market development?
27. a. What is the Board's role in motivating the reduction of C & D waste and improving and increasing the usage of C & D component/content?
27. b. Ditto/Greenwaste
28. How do you balance between people and resources?

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Table 15

1. Is there a role for the Waste Board after 2000?
2. There are more effective ways to facilitate market development.
3. What are the appropriate public agencies to lead progress/change, e.g., Trade and Commerce vs. CIWMB?
4. How can government/others remove barriers to recycling? - and still protect public health and safety and the environment?
5. How can government better target its efforts to address bad actors without onerous regulations on good actors?
6. How can different levels of government improve consistency of requirements?
7. What is the role of voluntary initiatives/cooperation vs. government mandates?
8. What can California do to rationalize product change so public goal is achievable? - dialog -
9. What is the role of state in encouraging design for environment?
10. How shall we handle increased quantities of traditional recyclables?
11. How shall we handle increased new materials/products?
12. How can we create new economic development in the communities? - retain economic benefit (wealth) of local efforts (feedback loop)?
13. How can policies help communities increase acceptance of "clean" industrial development to use waste as resource?
14. How do we promote markets/industrial development and be sensitive to or reconcile environmental justice - locally undesirable land use - disproportionate impacts?
15. How do we achieve systems thinking given large number of individual decision makers? - front end policies - plan infrastructure needs with…?
16. What is role/responsibility of public in consumption decisions/patterns and marketing/advertising industry?
17. How do we reconcile free choice/aesthetics with standardization needs for recycling/reuse?
18. How do we plan collection and processing given e-commerce-decentralization? Rethink logistics.
19. How do we manage increase in medical supplies in residential stream?
20. How do we manage increase in office-type waste due to home offices?
21. How do we mange single-use products, e.g., cameras?
22. How can technology be used better to de-materialize - e.g. books, rental videos-straight through TV?
23. How do we quantify source reduction benefits?
24. e.g. plastic can-light weighting may hurt market potential, economic feasibility.
25. How do we reconcile source reduced laminates with recyclability issues?
26. Who should pay for post-consumer solid waste management?
27. How should they pay - tax, product price, etc.?
28. What is most efficient way of connecting consumer product price signal to cost of managing solid waste impact - interealization?
29. Which is better - paper - plastic - cloth - reusable bag? How do we educate the consumer?
30. What is state's role in completing objective life cycle analysis of related products? Trust worthiness of result for informed decision-making
31. How to improve consumer use on concentrates?
32. How to explain reason for environmental protection efforts in 30 second sound-bites.

Table 16   

1. Permitting/planning attitudes prevent recycling opportunities - there is a lack of flexibility on state/local government.
2. How will the CIWMB (and state Legislature) realistically deal with state goal of 50% by year 2000 not being achieved?
3. How will CIWMB gain support on controversial issues/initiatives to set standards on recycled content?
4. How will state improve its compliance measures of current recycling requirements? (Do as I say, not as I do)
5. How will state increase product (e.g. white goods) responsibility by manufacturer for cradle to cradle life cycle?
6. How do you (CIWMB) better "incentives" new technology? (i.e. rice straw as fiber board material)
7. How can CIWMB create policies that are based on science and not politics?
8. How can CIWMB act to improve and develop global markets for recyclable materials?
9. How can the state assist local government in collecting information on reporting better waste generation/characterization, recycling and disposal information.
10. How can CIWMB better utilize existing information to make better policy decisions/as opposed to doing additional studies?
11. The State of California should plan/develop a single source for program/project development assistance.
12. How can CIWMB access and utilize monies from the bottle bill?
13. How can CIWMB assist local government in using existing recycling "tools" e.g. funding, information, expertise for implementing local programs?
14. How can CIWMB assist local government/schools in teaching source reduction?
15. CIWMB should work on coordinating and standardizing educational programs.

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Table 17

1. Markets - How do we (Solid waste industry, regulators, etc) create markets and demand to use effectively recovered resources?
2. What is the CIWMB role with market development - What has it been and what should it be?
3. What is all government's role in market development?
4. How can society reduce waste from being generated? Hierarchy.
5. What impact have CIWMB's market development programs had on waste? (like AB117)
6. How can CIWMB justify its existence if waste goals are met?
7. What should the CIWMB's public education outreach look like in next 10 years?
8. What is CIWMB's role with sustainability?
9. How do CIWMB policies reward doing good? RFPs, regulation requirements.
10. How does CIWMB interact with sister agencies for overall plan?
11. What is CIWMB's role in consumer education for effective waste recycling/reduction?
12. Overall benefits of recycling - what's the CIWMB role?
13. Should the CIWMB develop true cost/benefit for programs? Include environmental costs, societal costs.
14. How does the CIWMB address the bigger picture issues of reduction, recycling, conservation of resources? Cost to society?
15. How does CIWMB change mindset to conserve resource, reduce disposal, recycling, reduction of waste?
16. How does the CIWMB get the message out to households, generators of the waste - solid waste management in their monthly bill? Consequences of recycling, etc.
17. Should the CIWMB develop some rationale for public, businesses, etc. to encourage proper solid waste management?
18. Should the CIWMB have a role looking at recycled content of imports/exports?
19. Should the CIWMB be proactive with manufacturers on advanced disposal fee program?
20. How does the CIWMB encourage bioreactors? Show that it works?

Table 18

1. What do we do if local jurisdictions can't/don't make the 50% diversion goal?
2. How do we increase access and communication with Board members and communities/officials outside Sacramento? (especially with Southern California)?
3. What role should the Board play in future of solid waste management - is it IWMB responsibility to get more involved in local issues? Be more involved in land use issues?
4. What role should IWMB play in environmental justice issues?
5. Should the Board be more business friendly and work more collaboratively than prescriptively with business and industry? e.g., less regulatory, less adversarial. How can Cal/EPA help major industry/business want to locate here in the face of regulations tougher than elsewhere in the country? How do we achieve balance?
6. What role does Board have to promote innovative approaches such as industrial ecology, polluter pays.
7. How will the Board judge a "good faith" effort when the costs to achieve the last 10% of diversion cost as much as the first 40%?
8. What's magical about 50% diversion - how do we mitigate non-attainment?
9. Could the Board facilitate bringing technological models in pollution prevention (e.g. national labs) to California?
10. Should the emphasis on solid waste be shifted to pollution prevention? Sustainable development?
11. Should the Board restructure its revenue/funding base tied to diversion success?
12. Where's "the other 50%" going to go?
13. What can the Board foster in recycling/diversion within state government itself? Shouldn't state agencies be held to the same standard as local government?
14. Should the Board partner with organizations/agencies other than those in solid waste management to address issues of a multi-ethnic culture, environmental justice?
15. Ought there be a core list of minimum activities/programs that define support wise management of materials… even beyond 50%. - what can the Board do to support this by exploring advanced disposal fees and manufacturer responsibility?
16. How can we develop an ethic to make the wisest use of materials possible?
17. Should the Board work itself out of existence?
18. What are the implications of deregulation of certain toxic wastes on Class III solid waste management? - impact on landfills? Landfill design?
19. If ADF is implemented, should it be based on environmental criteria? (beyond weight and volume)
20. How do you approach advanced disposal fees in light of the additional "tax" implications and ultimate impact on the consumer?
21. What more can Board/California (government) do to stimulate more markets?
22. How do we ensure multimedia impacts of transformation are adequately addressed?
23. What is the next "939"? How much of the Board's efforts should focus on AB939 or AB939 maintenance in the future?
24. Who monitors diversion after Y2K?
25. How can the Board integrate current solid waste management practices into a bigger sustainable development context?
26. How can the Board facilitate start up of new technologies to compete with existing manufacturing practice? (e.g. rubberized asphalt, plastic lumber, etc.)
27. What is the role of the Board in "the 4th R"? i.e. "restoration"
28. How can the Board encourage reclamation at old landfill sites?
29. How do we foster a closed loop environment within households? (e.g. the space shuttle handles everything in a closed environment…)
30. How can the Board foster Eco-Industrial parks, i.e. locate services near the industry.
31. How will Board work in context with other Cal/EPA agencies? (Reorg?)

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Last updated: October 18, 2007