Coordinator Update Fall 2004

Coordinator Update

by Diana Rivera

It seems that there’s not enough time in a day. Morning coffees soon become lunchtime, Mondays quickly become Fridays, and all the people I intended to phone get moved to another day. Telephone calls, e-mails, faxes—all keep coming faster. But what I believe is most important here is not necessarily time management, but rather maintaining strong relationships with you folks that use CalMAX and with the local governments that are using the CalMAX portal pages. It is with our collaborative efforts and mutual support that we will accomplish our environmental goals. After all, if my days at work seem short, it’s because they are full of rewarding work and that involves gladly, responding to your calls and e-mails.

New Portals
Truckee is the most recent addition and first town to have a portal page in CalMAX. The brand new TruckeeMAX was recently launched to help the town of Truckee and the surrounding region with waste diversion efforts.

Nevada County’s NevCoMAX portal is helping plenty of business customers in the western part of the county exchange materials. However, the Truckee area is located east of the Sierra mountain range. Since the mountains separate Truckee-area businesses from other communities with businesses wanting to exchange materials on the west side of the county, we established the TruckeeMAX for the Truckee region.

Truckee is promoting the TruckeeMAX with outreach to the community in local papers such as the Moonshine Ink, with circulation in the eastern Sierra region.

Merced County is another recent addition to our group of portal pages. We launched MercedMAX for Merced County’s Department of Public Works. Merced County is promoting the portal through the county’s Merced Recycles website and with promotional materials in the community.

In this Issue
We have two CalMAX connections stories. First, the Wooden Window, a company in Oakland that manufactures and installs wood-frame windows. This company found a nice connection with a horse rancher looking for sawdust to use in horse stalls. The owners of the Volkman Valley Horse Farm were happy to receive large amounts of sawdust from the Wooden Window  to use in the horse farm’s stables.

The second CalMAX connections story comes from the City of Burbank’s Department of Public Works. A staff member from the Burbank Recycle Center recently sent me a copy of the public works department’s Summer 2004 newsletter that has news coverage of environmental events in the Burbank area. While we work towards a paperless work environment, city newsletters—like this catalog—are a great way to reach out and promote reduce, reuse, and recycle efforts throughout the community.

In the creative reuse feature, Sarah Weimer has a story about a company/art studio called Lizland in San Francisco. Liz Mamorsky is an artist who creates beautiful and often whimsical art out of interesting material. I encourage you to visit Lizland's website.

In the electronics update article, Terri Persons discusses updated e-waste issues. Remember, the Board’s website includes an electronic products directory, with more than 300 listings of collection facilities.

The Insert section of the catalog is an informative piece about sustainable housing.

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