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Board Resolution | Waste Reduction and Procurement Goals
WHEREAS, the Board adopted the Statewide Waste Prevention Plan in 1993
with the mission to provide waste prevention leadership through a model waste prevention
program, including the goal to encourage waste prevention within other state
organizations; and
WHEREAS, the Board adopted the In-House Waste Prevention Plan and
In-House Waste Prevention Policy in 1994 to create a model waste prevention program at the
Board’s main facility; and
WHEREAS, exemplary waste reduction has already been achieved by the
Board through the In-House Waste Prevention Committee and other program efforts since
1993. Specifically, the Board has reduced its white office paper use by 25 percent,
reduced its waste disposed per employee per day by 80 percent (1.5 pounds vs. 3.4 ounces)
and achieved an annual savings of $100,000. Additionally, 6 tons of food scraps from the
cafeteria have been diverted through vermicomposting since 1994; and
WHEREAS, through the 1997 Strategic Plan it is the Board’s vision to
serve as a national and international leader in integrated waste management practices; and
WHEREAS, in support of its vision to serve as a national and
international leader in integrated waste management, the Board’s in-house waste
reduction and recycled-content product procurement practices shall be an example for other
state agencies to follow; and
WHEREAS, as a charter government member of U.S. EPA’s WasteWi$e
program since 1997, it is the Board’s responsibility to implement the existing
waste reduction goals, measure progress, and annually report accomplishments; and
WHEREAS, in developing a new waste reduction and recycled content
product procurement policy for the Board, the Board acknowledges that changes to internal
business operations have always resulted in the greatest efficiencies for the Board.
Therefore, the Board’s future waste reduction policies and programs shall focus on
improvements to business functions to efficiently use resources, time, labor, and
materials that will result in waste reduction; and
WHEREAS, Executive Staff and managerial support is critical to
improving business functional efficiency and achieving waste reduction and recycled
content product procurement goals.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, it is the In-House Waste Reduction and
Recycled Content Product Procurement Policy of the Board to:
- Create an organizational culture that supports waste reduction and recycled content
product (RCP) procurement practices in all aspects of its business operations. Each
Executive Staff and Board member shall individually facilitate, promote and expect staff
and the organization to operate in a manner that exemplifies waste reduction and RCP
procurement practices.
- Show leadership in waste reduction and procurement practices. Executive Staff shall
fully understand waste reduction practices and find ways to apply them within the
organization. Executive Staff shall encourage Board staff to bring forward ideas to
improve internal business functions and implement those ideas having the greatest
potential for achieving efficiencies.
- Support the waste reduction goals and action plan. Board staff, in concert with
Executive Staff, shall develop a waste reduction action plan as a working document to
implement the waste reduction and RCP procurement goals. The action plan shall incorporate
those activities addressed by management that facilitate waste reduction and RCP
procurement through improvements to internal processes.
- The Board and Executive Staff shall expect all offices and divisions to work
cooperatively to identify internal and external waste reduction opportunities and achieve
the stated waste reduction and RCP procurement goals at all of its facilities.
- Optimize the procurement of recycled-content products. Price, quality and availability
being comparable, the Board shall buy recycled-content products rather than
nonrecycled
content products. The Board shall purchase the product with the greatest recycled content
when faced with a choice of two or more recycled content products. Additionally, the Board
shall seek opportunities to showcase, promote, and facilitate the purchase of recycled
content products to other state agencies by serving as a model.
- Practice waste reduction in all procurement decisions. Board staff shall purchase
products that are recyclable, reusable, and/or durable. The Business Services Office, or
other purchasing agent, will annually report to Executive Staff on procurement activities
that have resulted in waste reduction.
- Optimize waste reduction with suppliers and customers. The Board shall require that all
service providers, building maintenance, grant recipients, or any other outside sources
used by the Board, where appropriate and feasible, use recycled content, recyclable or
reusable products, or practice other waste reduction measures.
- Require that landscape
waste reduction activities, such as grasscycling, onsite composting and water
efficient landscaping, and/or the purchase of compost/mulch derived from organic materials
diverted from disposal (urban compost/mulch), be practiced at the Board's
facilities,
including both leased facilities and state-owned facilities. The Board shall also work
with Department of General Services to ensure that landscape waste reduction practices are
supported in future building/site agreements, whether state-owned or leased.
- Continually improve waste reduction and recycled-content product procurement practices.
Executive Staff shall provide the Board with quarterly reports on the reductions in waste
achieved through improvements to internal business processes and how they further the
Board’s waste reduction and procurement goals. Staff will also update You Can Do It Too!
Preventing Office Waste at the California Integrated Waste Management Board,
the in-house case study, by December 1999.
The undersigned Executive Director, or his designee, of the California Integrated Waste
Management Board does hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true, and correct copy
of a resolution duly and regularly adopted at a meeting of the California Integrated Waste
Management Board held on May 27, 1999.
Dated: May 27, 1999
Ralph E. Chandler
Executive Director
Waste Reduction and Procurement Goals
Through March 2001
Waste Prevention
- White Office Paper: Decrease paper purchases by an additional 15
percent. (25 percent reduction achieved from 1994 baseline)
- Grasscycling: Re-establish grasscycling at the Board’s facilities.
- Paper Towels: Reduce generation paper towels by 25 percent.
Recycling Collection
- Food Waste/Organics: Reduce the amount of food waste disposed by 50
percent.
- Increase Collection of Newspaper, Mixed Paper, Magazines, Plastic, Glass & Aluminum:
- Provide for 100 percent collection at the 8950 facility.
- Invert recycling and disposal options in all of the Board’s facilities where
recycling collection containers are in each office and trashcans are located in common
areas.
- White Office Paper Contamination: Reduce contamination in the white paper recycling bins to
5 percent of the time (currently white paper is downgraded to mixed 10.6
percent of the time).
Procurement
- Recycled Content Product Procurement:
- Meet the mandated State Agency Buy Recycled
Campaign (SABRC) goals of 50 percent of purchases be for recycled-content products.
- Increase purchases of re-refined motor oil to 75 percent of motor oil purchases.
- Increase purchases of retread tires to 75 percent of tire purchases.
- Source Reduction and Reuse Procurement:
- Replace five products currently purchased with used or reused products.
- Convince at least two suppliers to minimize the amount of packaging used on their
products.
Employee Education/Outreach
- Education:
- Conduct monthly Waste Reduction Committee meetings with Waste Reduction Pros and
interested parties.
- Provide all new employees with an in-house waste reduction and procurement
policy
orientation.
- Outreach:
- To conduct educational outreach activities on at least a quarterly basis.
- Provide employee opportunity to report daily waste prevention activities through the
intranet.
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