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The California Integrated Waste Management Board has developed these guidelines on how to use the PowerPoint presentation for economics
and the environment, including tips on
how to customize the presentation for your local jurisdiction.
Who Should Show the Presentation?
- Integrated Waste Management Act (IWMA)/Recycling Coordinators.
- Solid Waste Managers.
- Local Planners/Economic Developers.
- Public Works Directors.
Who Should See the Presentation?
- City Councils.
- City Managers/Administrators.
- Boards of Supervisors and County Executive Officers.
- Solid Waste Department Heads.
- Solid Waste Advisory Committees/IWMA Local Task Forces.
When Should the Presentation Be Used?
- When preparing, analyzing or proposing budgets.
- When educating policymakers or orienting new board/commission
members.
- When making grant requests.
- When explaining the State’s disposal reduction IWMA mandate.
- When proposing new programs.
How Can the Presentation Help You?
The presentation explains the brochure entitled,
Recycling: Good for the
Environment/Good for the Economy. It was designed to help support your
efforts to implement diversion programs and to maintain your existing waste
prevention, reuse, recycling and composting programs. Specifically, the
brochure can be used to:
- Counteract the tendency of local decision-makers to cut funding for
recycling and market development programs, when local budgets are tight,
because recycling's environmental benefits may not be readily apparent. Local jurisdictions can do more to create jobs
and generate tax revenue by maintaining or enhancing local
recycling/diversion programs, than by reducing or eliminating those
programs.
- Keep public and private recyclers, and local jurisdictions diverting
material, at and beyond California’s 50 percent waste disposal reduction
mandate.
- Protect the flow of recycled feedstock to processors and
manufacturers, and to protect the waste management industry’s capital
investment in recycling and composting infrastructure.
- Persuade lenders to treat the recycling industry like any other.
Recycling is good for the local economy, as well as the environment.
- Convince economic developers of the significance of this
manufacturing sector. Recycling creates twice as many jobs as disposal,
while helping to keep the land, air, and water clean, and saving valuable
energy.
What is the Presentation’s Overall
Message?
Local jurisdictions can do more to create jobs and generate tax revenue
by maintaining or enhancing local recycling/diversion programs, than by
reducing or eliminating those programs.
Recycling is good for the local economy, as we’ll as the environment.
Recycling creates twice as many jobs as disposal, while helping to keep the
land, air and water clean, and saving valuable energy.
What Can You Do to Make the Presentation
Most Effective?
1. Personalize the presentation.
- Modify the slides to show local benefits or businesses.
- Invite local businesses to share their experiences.
(The Board’s
local assistance staff may be able to help you gather local data or locate
local businesses.)
- If appropriate, choose a Recycling
Market Development Zones (RMDZ) case study video that fits your local situation.
2. Use other available resources
- The local assistance staff can provide you with copies of the brochure or you may
request staff assistance. You may contact local assistance staff at
(916) 341-6199 or e-mail dplaola@ciwmb.ca.gov;
or you may contact the Recycling Business
Assistance Branch at (916) 341-6500 or e-mail
Anthony Johnson.
- CIWMB publication
Diversion is Good for the Economy: Highlights from Two Independent
Studies on the Economic Impacts of Diversion in California. This
publication is a summary of two CIWMB Board-sponsored studies presenting
data designed to assess the economic impact of diversion.
3. Give us feedback after your presentation
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