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The California Integrated Waste Management Board has developed tools for
jurisdictions to help support efforts to implement diversion programs and to
maintain existing waste prevention, reuse, recycling and composting
programs. The Recycling: Good for the Environment/Good for the Economy tools consist of:
- Presentation
(MS
PowerPoint, 470 KB)
A presentation created for jurisdictions to share with
their local decision-makers, including city councils, city
managers/administrators, and boards of supervisors.
- Brochure
(Adobe PDF, 579
KB)
This
brochure may be downloaded to distribute to local decision
makers.
- Guidelines
How to use the PowerPoint presentation, including tips on how to
customize it for your local jurisdiction.
- Case Studies
Business case studies that can be shown with the presentation.
- How to Use the Tools (MS
Word, 31 KB)
A suggested script for introducing the presentation
and brochure that can be personalized for your local jurisdiction(s).
- Contact Information
How Can the Presentation Help You?
The presentation can help those who need to prepare
or propose solid waste budgets, educate policymakers or orient
new board/commission members, explain the State’s disposal reduction
(Integrated Waste Management Act [IWMA]) mandate, or propose new programs.
The presentation explains the brochure entitled
Recycling: Good for the Environment/Good for the
Economy.
You can use the brochure 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.
To order copies of the brochure or to obtain additional
assistance with these tools, please contact the
local assistance staff at (916)
341-6199 or the Recycling Business Assistance Branch at (916) 341-6500.
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