Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and Stewardship

Speakers: EPR Workshop--Residentially Generated Fluorescent Lamps

Speakers participating at Del Norte Solid Waste Management Authority’s Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Workshop on April 30, 2008, have submitted the following biographies and recent project descriptions. You may wish to visit the agenda page for more information about the workshop.

Rex Bell has a B.S. Chemistry, U.C. Berkeley, 1982 and an M.S. Environmental Management, University of San Francisco, 1998.

Mr. Bell has 25 years with Pacific Gas and Electric Company in the area of environmental compliance and is currently Manager, PG&E Environmental Remediation.

Pacific Gas and Electric Company, incorporated in California in 1905, is one of the largest combination natural gas and electric utilities in the United States. Based in San Francisco, the company is a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation. There are approximately 20,000 employees who carry out Pacific Gas and Electric Company's primary business--the transmission and delivery of energy. The company provides natural gas and electric service to approximately 15 million people throughout a 70,000-square-mile service area in northern and central California.

Christoph Berens von Rautenfeld, current Global Responsible for WEEE, previously OSRAM WEE Project Europe; Heading ELC Expert Panel Finance; ELC WEEE Core Team Member. Christoph established more than 20 WEEE compliance schemes in Europe. Negotiated and lobbied on state level with regard to national WEEE implementations/improvements. Continued negotiations/lobbying with EU institutions on WEEE. Christopher was active on the producer side in the review process of WEEE on EU level. In 2007, build up of the OSRAM internal organization for WEEE EU (WEEE Corporate Task Force Europe, 4 people) and development of the WEEE implementation proposal.

Scott Cassel is the Executive Director of the Product Stewardship Institute, which pursues initiatives to ensure that all those involved in the lifecycle of a product share responsibility for reducing its health and environmental impacts. Prior to founding the Institute in 2000, Scott served seven years as the Director of Waste Policy and Planning for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs. He is also a founding Board Member and past President of the North American Hazardous Materials Management Association, whose mission is to reduce the toxicity of the municipal waste stream. Scott has worked on product and waste management issues for the past 25 years for a start-up solid waste management company, a non-profit statewide environmental group, and several other state agencies, including the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority. He was also a syndicated newspaper columnist in Massachusetts. Scott has a masters degree in environmental policy and dispute resolution from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an undergraduate degree in Geology and Environmental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

The Product Stewardship Institute pursues initiatives to ensure that all those involved in the lifecycle of a product share responsibility for reducing its health and environmental impacts. The Product Stewardship Institute is designed to provide policy development assistance; coordination, facilitation, and mediation; and outreach and education. The Product Stewardship Institute envisions a society in which products are responsibly manufactured, used, and managed after use to conserve resources and protect the environment and human health.

Lauren Cole works for King County Solid Waste Division and the Local Hazardous Waste Management Program in Seattle, Washington and is the Mercury Subcommittee lead for the Northwest Product Stewardship Council. She has worked on product stewardship issues for over 10 years including establishing a private sector network of fluorescent lamp recycling sites called the Take-it-Back Network, banning fluorescent lamps from disposal in King County and working with local utilities and retailers to explore manufacturer-funded collection of fluorescent lamps.

Alicia Culver is Executive Director of the Green Purchasing Institute, a nationally recognized nonprofit organization that helps government agencies, businesses, and institutions procure environmentally preferable goods and services.

Her experience spans more than two decades and has emphasized waste prevention, energy efficiency and toxics use reduction. She has worked for the past five years with US EPA grant funding to develop strategies to reduce the mercury content of lighting equipment. In this capacity, she took a leading role in drafting pioneering environmental standards for low-mercury fluorescent lamps to be purchased by such entities as the State of California, New York City, San Francisco, and Alameda County. She has also helped purchasing agents incorporate manufacturer and distributor “take-back” language into government contracts for fluorescent lamps, batteries, computer equipment, toner cartridges and other goods. She serves a technical advisor to the Product Policy Institute, the Mercury Policy Project, the Grassroots Recycling Network and the California Product Stewardship Council. She recently authored a fact sheet, Purchasing Best Practices: Contracting for Producer Responsibility (2007). Contact information at www.greenpurchasing.org.

Rob D’Arcy has a Bachelors Degree in Environmental Studies and a Masters Degree in Public Administration. He has been with the County of Santa Clara Hazardous Waste Recycling and Disposal Program since 1998 and the Hazardous Materials Program Manager for the last eight years. In the ten years with the Program he was responsible for the design, construction and permitting of three household hazardous waste facilities. Resident and small business participation in the Program has doubled since 1998 and the Program now serves several hundred businesses and over 27,000 residents each year. Rob has developed special program components, such as the Universal Waste Retail Recycling Partner Program to offer cost effective solutions for residents throughout the County. Rob is also a strong supporter of Producer Responsibility and believes industry take-back is the most constructive mechanism to achieve sustainability and reduce the local government burden of hazardous waste management. In addition, he has managed over $7 million in grants awarded by the California Integrated Waste Management Board. Rob is the current Chair of the California Product Stewardship Council and the Past President of the California Chapter of the North American Hazardous Materials Management Association.

Jen Dolin has been at OSRAM SYLVANIA since 2004, where she is the manager of sustainability and environmental affairs. She oversees environmental marketing and environmental sustainability issues including the national lamp and ballast recycling program, and OSRAM SYLVANIA’s Global Care corporate responsibility initiatives.

Ms. Dolin spent 10 years with the United States Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC, first as an early member of the ENERGY STAR® labeling team and then as the creator and manager of the SmartWay program for the Office of Transportation and Air Quality (OTAQ).

Ms. Dolin holds a masters degree from Tufts University in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude.

Professionally, Ms. Dolin is a LEED® Accredited Professional, a member of the BSR/ASHRAE/IESNA/USGBC Green Buildings Standards Project Committee 189, the chair of the NEMA Ad Hoc Green Building Task Force and a member of the TFM Green Building Advisory Board.

OSRAM SYLVANIA is a leader in lighting solutions and specialty products that feature innovative design and energy saving technology. The company sells products for homes, businesses and vehicles primarily under the SYLVANIA brand name, and also under the OSRAM brand. For more information, visit www.sylvania.com.

Ric Erdheim is Senior Counsel at Philips Electronics. He participates in the company’s Sustainability program, and coordinates the company’s US energy and environmental legislative program and its efforts in working with state legislatures. He is working towards achieving an effective and efficient recycling program for consumer electronics and promoting energy efficient lighting. He also coordinates the legislative program of the Electronics Manufacturers Coalition for Responsible Recycling, a coalition of major electronics manufacturers that supports an advance fee for funding consumer electronics recycling.

Philips Electronics is the largest lighting company in the world and now in the US. We make lamps, ballasts, and luminaires (fixtures). Philips four-foot linear fluorescent lamps contain the lowest amount of mercury in the industry. Philips is also the company best positioned to lead the next generation of lighting through its ownership of Lumileds, a leading LED manufacturer, Color Kinetics, a leading manufacturer of applying of LED technology to lighting, and Genlyte, one of the largest fixture manufacturers in the US.

Prior to coming to Philips Electronics, Mr. Erdheim was Senior Manager for Government Affairs at the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA). He represented electrical manufacturers on environmental, occupational health, and consumer product safety issues. He also served as the Executive Director of the Thermostat Recycling Corporation, an organization formed by the major thermostat manufacturers to operate a wholesaler take back program for mercury switch thermostats. He was one of two US delegates to the International Electrotechnical Commision (IEC’s) Advisory Committee on Environmental Aspects that developed environmental policy for IEC committees. Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean appointed him to the Vermont Mercury Advisory Committee.

Before joining NEMA, Mr. Erdheim spent 10 years as a Congressional aide, most of that time as Environmental Legislative Assistant to Senator Frank R. Lautenberg of New Jersey. Mr. Erdheim played a significant role in enactment of the ozone transport and air toxics provisions of the Clear Air Act Amendments of 1990, the Pollution Prevention Act, the Ocean Dumping Ban Act, and the Mercury Containing and Rechargeable Battery Management Act. Mr. Erdheim started his career working eight years in the General Counsel’s Office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Mr. Erdheim graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Economics and the George Washington University Law School.

Karen Farfan is the environmental coordinator for the West Sacramento IKEA store. Karen supports the store in implementing and maintaining the Social and Environmental work as it pertains to the corporate Social and Environmental strategy.

She ensures store meets goals of energy and emission reduction, renewable energy investment, waste management, community involvement and work basic environmental training.

IKEA offers a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible can afford them. The IKEA Group owns 244 IKEA stores in 24 countries and during FY08 plans to open about 23 new stores.

Dan Gillespie is President/Owner of Lighting Resources since 1994. Member of ALMR, NALMCO, and PRISM.

Lighting Resources began in 1990 with current locations in Ontario, California; Phoenix, Arizona; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Tampa, Florida. Lighting Resources is one of two permitted facilities in California and lamps, pcb ballasts, and phosphor powder. Lighting Resources is actively working to find solutions to the recycling of compact fluorescents.

Kevin Hendrick has worked since 1993 as the Director of the Del Norte Solid Waste Management Authority (DNSWMA), a joint powers authority of Crescent City and Del Norte County, California. The DNSWMA is responsible for all recycling, solid waste, universal waste, electronic waste and household hazardous management services in Del Norte County. In 2006 Del Norte County reached a 57 percent waste diversion rate to exceed the State mandate for a 50 percent reduction of waste disposal.

Under the direction of Mr. Hendrick, on February 15, 2000, the Del Norte Solid Waste Management Authority adopted the first municipal Zero Waste Plan in the United States. This plan identified a path to increase resource utilization efficiency and to reduce waste disposal costs by recognizing that waste is not waste until you waste it. This Zero Waste Plan identified the need to develop a Resource Recovery Park, a business incubator which will foster the development of local businesses that will reuse, repair, compost or otherwise recycle discarded materials as a means of recovering secondary resources.

In 2007, the Del Norte Solid Waste Management Authority joined the California Product Stewardship Council and Mr. Hendrick currently serves as the Vice Chair of the CPSC Board of Directors. In this role Mr. Hendrick has been an ardent advocate for product stewardship policies. Mr. Hendrick has testified before numerous government agencies and advisory groups to promote the adoption of state-wide legislation in California that will establish a framework for product stewardship.

Barry Jordan is the National Sales Manager for the Electronics Recycling Division Veolia ES Technical Solutions, LLC.

With over 30 years experience in the environmental field, Mr. Jordan has managed policy development and projects for the US EPA and several environmental service companies. Most of his career has been spent in water pollution control and hazardous waste programs. He was involved in setting up the federal Superfund Program and worked on major projects including Love Canal, Times Beach, MO, and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. He has been involved with lighting and electronics recycling for over ten years. He is currently responsible for managing national sales for the Electronics Recycling Division of Veolia ES Technical Solutions, LLC. Veolia is involved in CFL return pilot projects in Maine, Wisconsin, and Illinois. The company has also executed marketing agreements with most of the leading lamp manufacturers.

Veolia is the largest environmental company in the world, employing 320,000 people, with revenues of $48 billion. The company is enjoying annual double digit growth due to a business strategy that focuses on cities and sustainable development in four areas: energy, water, transportation, and waste.

Mr. Jordan received his B. A. and M. A. from Boston College.

Karen Knaebel has been the Mercury Education and Reduction Project Coordinator for the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation since 1998. Karen operates Vermont’s Mercury Education and Reduction Program and oversees DEC’s mercury product labeling program including other regulatory aspects. She has organized many reduction and outreach efforts that have included a statewide fever thermometer exchange; retail lamp, thermostat and button cell battery collection programs; and outreach to sensitive populations regarding fish consumption.

Rob Koppejan has been working since 2003 as project leader for Philips Lighting in Europe complying with EPR legislation for Lighting. The European lamp companies' federation had a leading role in getting a joint and pro-active approach to recycling Lamps in Europe. Rob has been the project leader for this project from 2003 onwards. The project ensured pro-active compliance in all member states in Europe. In total 27 Companies or associations were set up to comply with the European legislation transposed in the member states.

The companies jointly now manage a cost of 180 mln per annum ensuring collection and recycling of end-of-life lamps in Europe.

This lighting industry is seen as one the most pro-active Industry when it comes to recycling. Rob is also responsible for Global EPR issues for Philips Lighting.

Currently Rob is working to increase the uptake and use of advanced energy saving lighting solutions for professional applications in Europe. Rob has Masters in Business Management from the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Bill Magavern is director of Sierra Club California. He has represented the group since 2000, advocating for environmental causes before the State Legislature and executive agencies.

His issue areas include air quality, global warming, toxics, recycling/solid waste, pesticides, enforcement, environmental justice, environmental health and open government. He was the 2003 recipient of the Mary Ferguson Award for outstanding service on the staff of Sierra Club California, and was named a Clean Air Champion in 2007 by the Central Valley Air Quality Coalition. He served on Governor Schwarzenegger’s Environmental Advisory Task Force and co-chairs the External Advisory Group for the Director of the Department of Toxic Substances Control.

Mr. Magavern received his A.B in American Civilization, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Brown University. After working in youth outreach, political campaigns, and alternative journalism, he received his J.D. magna cum laude, from the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School, where he won the Faculty and Trial Technique awards.

Mr. Magavern has worked as an environmental advocate since 1988. He previously served in Washington, D.C., as a staff attorney for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group and director of Public Citizen’s Critical Mass Energy Project. After moving to California, he worked as Sacramento director of the Committee to Bridge the Gap. He has authored numerous reports and articles on energy and environmental policy and testified frequently at hearings of Congress and the California State Legislature, as well as at many public proceedings of federal and state administrative agencies.

The Sierra Club is a non-profit, member-supported, public interest organization that promotes the conservation of our natural environment by influencing public policy decisions--legislative, administrative, legal, and electoral.

Kristina Miller is the Solid Waste Program Manager Tehama County/Red Bluff Landfill Management Agency.

For the past two years, Kristina Miller has been employed with Tehama County as both the Recycling Coordinator and Solid Waste Program Manager. Over the past two years she has developed numerous recycling programs including a curbside Alkaline Battery Recycling Program, Fluorescent Light Recycling Campaign, and is currently working to develop a medical waste sharps collection program. Tehama County was the first County to coordinate with Pacific Gas and Electric, Wal-Mart, Waste Management Lamp Tracker, True Value Hardware, and the Department of Toxic Substances Control to develop a free, convenient, and safe method to recycle fluorescent lights. Kristina Miller earned a master’s degree in Environmental Geography and a bachelor’s degree in Restoration Ecology and Environmental Education from California State University, Chico.

The Tehama County Sanitary Landfill Agency (TCSLA is a joint powers authority (JPA) comprised of the County of Tehama, and the cities of Red Bluff, Corning and Tehama. The TCSLA oversees requirements of California Assembly Bill 939, which requires local jurisdictions to divert at least 50 percent of its waste stream. The TCSLA also applies for grants on behalf of member jurisdictions, including recent grants for used oil, household hazardous waste, waste tires, and beverage container recycling. The TCSLA also maintains a trust fund to pay for costs associated with closure and postclosure maintenance activities.

Alister Rinfret: Founded in 1972, Balcan won the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise in 2006, for its design of Lamp Recycling Plant, coupled with the use of lamp crushers.

The Balcan system reduces volume at site and therefore reduces the sizes of vehicles required to carry the lamps to the recycling facility. The lamp recycling plant accepts all types of lamps, both whole and crushed, whilst their lamp crushers provide controlled crushing of the lamps, preventing uncontrolled emissions of mercury, which occurs with the transport of whole lamps.

Balcan also manufacture a range of bottle and vial crushers as well as the hypodermic needle and syringe DESTRUCTOR, to provide companies and healthcare institutions with safe and efficient solutions to hazardous and clinical waste. All their systems are designed to be simple to use with minimal maintenance, yet ultra efficiency

Balcan is a true family business and Alistair Rinfret is the eldest son. He has been with them since 1991. He is responsible for quality management, legislation, service and exports within the company. As one of the main lamp recyclers in the UK, Balcan is considered to have set the UK standard for quality and cleanliness.

Leonard E. Robinson was appointed to the position of Chief Deputy Director of the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in September of 2004. He has over 30 years experience in the environmental management field.

As DTSC’s Chief Deputy Director, Mr. Robinson oversees the day-to-day operations of the department and acts as spokesman for such environmental initiatives such as: Brownfields; Pollution Prevention; Green Chemistry; Universal Wastes and Enforcement. DTSC‘s mission is to protect public health and the environment. Mr. Robinson is spear-heading the “California Take It Back! Partnership”. He is also a lecturer for the “Leadership for the Government Executive" series at California State University Sacramento. Mr. Robinson current association and board activities include: Sacramento Chapter President of the National Forum for Black Public Administrators; member of the Governor’s Emergency Operations Executive Council and board member of the Community Health Charities of California.

Prior to his appointment, Mr. Robinson was the Environmental/Safety Manager at TAMCO Steel in Rancho Cucamonga, California. Mr. Robinson taught leadership and executive management classes while at TAMCO Steel. Earlier in his career, Mr. Robinson was a radio talk show host on Radio Station KTIE 590 AM; a lecturer; and a motivational speaker.

Heidi Sanborn became Executive Director of the California Product Stewardship Council in August 2007, Heidi Sanborn was a Senior Manager at R3 Consulting Group Inc. in Sacramento California. She has been working in the solid waste industry as a private consultant and a government employee at the California Integrated Waste Management Board for over 17 years. Her work history includes projects such as base-year studies, enclosure ordinances, program development and implementation including commercial waste assessments, drafting solid waste planning documents, with her most recent work focused primarily on Product Stewardship.

Ms. Sanborn became interested in Product Stewardship in 2000 at a time when she served as Technical Advisor to then California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB) Chair Linda Moulton-Patterson. Due to the work of the Chair and Ms. Sanborn, the 2001 CIWMB strategic plan did include Product Stewardship. When Ms. Sanborn left CIWMB in 2002 to complete her Master’s Degree, she worked as an independent consultant to the Product Stewardship Institute to assist in facilitation of the Paint Product Stewardship Initiative. In the fall of 2006, Ms. Sanborn went on to work with R3 Consulting Group and was the primary author of two documents: the Sonoma EPR Implementation Plan (2/07) and the Contractor’s report to the CIWMB titled, Framework for Evaluating End-of-Life Product Management Systems in California (7/07).

Ms. Sanborn is a graduate of the University of California at Davis (Bachelor of Arts in Political Science--Public Service, 1994) and has a Master’s of Public Administration from the University of Southern California 2004 which emphasized management of non-profit corporations. She has been a long-time member of CRRA and received their “Recycler of the Year” Award in 2002.

Michael Vanderpol has maintained various positions with Environment Canada since 1997, in which he has acquired expertise in the areas of extended producer responsibility, environmentally sound management, and waste electrical and electronic equipment. In 2006/2007, Mr. VanderPol was assigned to the Secretariat of the Basel Convention located in Geneva, to assist in the development of regional strategies for the environmentally sound management of lead acid batteries and used oils for countries in the Caribbean and Central America.

Mr. VanderPol is currently a Senior Program Coordinator for the Waste Reduction and Management Division of Environment Canada where he is involved in strategy development and project work related to the management of waste electronics and spent batteries. Mr. VanderPol received a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science from Carleton University.

The Waste Reduction and Management Division of Environment Canada is responsible for implementing terms of international agreements aimed at the monitoring and control of transboundary movements of hazardous and non-hazardous wastes and recyclable materials. These agreements are legally binding on Canada through legislation.

Gailen Vick founded the Reverse Logistics Association in 2002. His market research found that over $750 billion was being spent annually on Reverse Logistics in North America alone! Uncovered where thousands of 3rd Party Service Providers (3PSP) that provided services to OEM/ODM, Branded and Retail companies! Additional research showed that there wasn't any common thread between any of the 3PSPs other than competition. "There just wasn't a forum for the OEMs, ODMs, Branded and Retail companies to discuss "best practices" for Reverse Logistics."

RLA was founded to provide services for Aftermarket Supply Chain, or as we call it today Reverse Logistics. RLA's mission is to educate, inform and produce tradeshows and workshops around the world where OEMs, ODMs, Branded and Retail Companies can meet third party service providers (3PSPs).

In January 1996, Gailen was re-introduced to the Service Logistics sector. This sector was taking advantage of 3PL fast logistics movements. Many products were being sent to a depot setting instead of being repaired in the field. This new sector was just evolving into a formal industry where major cost saving were being realized. Gailen turned his focus to the "repair services" industry and managed Business Development at Sequel, PCS, Inc and later at Magnetic Data Technologies, LLC until the successful acquisition by Solectron in the spring of 2002. These companies supported major OEMs and 3PLs such as UPS, 3Com, Iomega, Dell, HP, Compal, Toshiba, Sun Microsystems, Hitachi, Panasonic, Apple, Mitsubishi, Imation, Gateway, Kinpo, Bizcom and many others.

With 30 years experience in aftermarket supply chain, engineering, manufacturing and marketing, Gailen's RL knowledge is a resource to companies across all industries.

Prior to founding Reverse Logistics Association, Gailen served on the executive staff of several third party service providers companies. Most of these companies were in the computer and telecommunications industries which made for an enjoyable learning experience in business management for Gailen. Prior to RLA, Gailen served on the executive staff of several 3PSP. His career started at Diablo Systems in 1974 as an EE and expanded to senior marketing and sales positions at Shugart, Fujitsu and Seagate. His experience at Xerox, Seagate, and Fujitsu along with business involvement at many trade conferences has allow Gailen to work hand and hand with many of today's Executive Management and has thus made him a resource to his colleagues.

Early in his career as a Regional and National Sales Manager, Gailen managed several Service Centers, but on January 1996 he joined Sequel after leaving the Disk Drive Industry. Reverse Logistics (even though it wasn't called that until much later) was just starting to be outsourced and a formal industry was evolving at that time.

Kenneth Woodlin joined Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. in February 2007 as the Senior Director of Environmental Compliance for California. Prior to Wal-Mart, and most recently, Ken served as the Global Environmental, Safety and Risk Management Director and In-house Counsel for a multi-national activated carbon company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where a significant portion of his responsibilities centered on hazardous waste and hazardous material management. Ken’s prior employment experience includes being an environmental attorney representing a major chemical company as well as directing the environmental affairs for a leading textile manufacturer both in Wilmington, Delaware. Ken’s education includes two bachelor degrees from the University of Delaware and a law degree from Widener University School of Law.

April 30 Workshop Agenda

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