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As part of the Recycling Market Development Zone program, the Board
offers resources to both businesses and the local zone program administrators for
stimulating markets for recyclables. The following links offer just a sample of the
assistance available to companies through the program. Custom support is also available,
according to the needs and interests of the participating businesses.
Integrated Waste Management Board Business Programs and Resources
- Alameda County Recycling Marketplace.
A public-private partnership linking businesses that use recycled materials with the
necessary resources to enter local markets in the East San Francisco Bay Area.
- Business Assistance Home Page. A list
with links to the web pages of programs and services at the Board toward helping businesses.
- Business Waste Reduction Assistance. A
variety of materials geared to help businesses save money and maximize
profit through efficient use of materials.
- Buy Recycled Program. The
Board's Buy Recycled Program promotes the State's policy to "buy
green." The program assists procurement officers of the Department
of General Services (DGS), all other State agencies, local
governments, and private businesses in establishing practices for
purchasing recycled-content
products (RCP).
- California Waste Stream Profiles.
Summarized information to provide decision-makers and other interested parties with easily
accessible and up-to-date profiles about solid waste in any California
jurisdiction. Information is displayed in text,
pictures, maps, tables, lists, charts, graphs and links to other Web resources.
- CalMAX (California Materials Exchange).
The "waste-not want ads" allow users to advertise materials
wanted or available--often for free or at low cost. As a source of
feedstock at little to no investment, CalMAX can be
a goldmine to the entrepreneur who wants to experiment with making a new
recycled-content product.
- Construction and Demolition
(C&D) Recycling. News, publications,
C&D
recyclers database, recycled-content building products, C&D
links, and C&D staff at the Board.
- Financial Assistance. Grants and
loans available through the Board.
- Green Building.
Sustainable design or building "green" is an opportunity to
use our resources efficiently while creating healthier buildings.
Includes green building basics, materials, project specifications,
government actions (executive orders, special green building projects),
links, and events.
- Market Development Resources.
Activities, publications, and databases aimed to help collect secondary materials in California and
recycle them into high-quality, value-added
products attractive to consumers.
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Recycled-Content Product
Database. A searchable list of companies that make recycled
products. Are you looking to "buy recycled" for your
business? Research whether or not other businesses are making a
recycled product you are thinking of adding to your line? This is
the link for you.
- RecycleStore.
An online catalog of recycled-content products made in California's
Recycling Market Development Zones (RMDZ). Originally designed to
serve rural manufacturers, this program is now available to all
businesses in the RMDZs. Stay tuned for more expansion!
- Waste Prevention World.
How to do more with less. Waste prevention can be defined as any way you change your life to
produce less waste and reduce the materials you or your business need
to operate. The idea has many names: waste
prevention, source reduction, and waste reduction.
- Waste Reduction Clip Art. Graphics for
promoting waste prevention in your business.
- WRAP (Waste Reduction Awards Program). WRAP gives
California businesses an opportunity to gain public recognition for
their outstanding efforts to reduce waste. Efforts to reduce,
reuse, recycle, or buy recycled are all acknowledged. If your
business could use some "green marketing," apply for
WRAP. The WRAP winners are also a great source of
recycling-friendly businesses for business program administrators. You might also find the company that makes just recycled product you have
been looking for.
Other Government Business Programs and Resources
- Business Environmental Resource Center
(BERC). Sacramento County's free, one-stop, nonregulatory office that can help
you understand and comply with all types of environmental regulations.
- Cal/EPA Permit Assistance
Centers. The mission of the Permit Assistance Center is to serve as
a central source of assistance for business owners seeking guidance with
permit application and approval processes for projects throughout the
state of California.
- California Association of Recycling Market Development
Zones (CARMDZ). The professional organization for the
administrators of the 40 recycling market development zones throughout
California. The CARMDZ Web site helps promote the RMDZ program.
- Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance.
A searchable, government-wide compendium of federal programs,
projects, services, and activities which provide assistance or benefits
to the American public.
- Industrial Assessment Centers.
IACs provide energy,
waste, and productivity assessments at no charge to small and mid-sized
manufacturers. There are two IACs in California at San Francisco and San Diego State
Universities.
- Northern California Manufacturers' Assistance
Program. Helps new, small, and growing businesses by providing free information and
advice on manufacturing process improvement.
- State and Local
Info on the Net. A resource guide to government sponsored Internet
sites.
- USDA's Forest Service.
Economic Action Programs helping rural communities and businesses
dependent on natural resources to become sustainable or
self-sufficient. Offers grant forms, a contact list of regional
coordinators, regional programs on line, and other links to economic
action programs.
- U.S. EPA. The
federal Environmental Protection Agency's web site has an enormous array
of information helpful to recycling-based businesses. Start with
pollution
prevention and particularly note the
jobs
through recycling link and the other resources available on this page.
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US EPA
Comprehensive Procurement Guideline (CPG) Program. The CPB program
is a key component of the government's buy-recycled program. At
this site, you'll find information about the CPG and EPA's Recovered
Material Advisory Notices (RMAN). The RMANs are important
references for companies that want to make recycled-content products for
sale to government agencies. The RMANs recommend the recycled
content levels for CPG items and offer one of the few reference
standards available for these products.
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Private/Nonprofit Resources
- California
Association for Local Economic Development.
CALED is the premier statewide professional
economic development membership organization dedicated to advancing
its members’ ability to achieve excellence in delivering economic
development services to their communities and business clients.
- Grant Resource Center of Northern
California.
Funding links from a wide variety of sources.
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GrantsWeb.
Government and private
funding sources, focused on research, sponsored by the Society of Research
Administrators International.
- Inventor's
Workshop. Provides inventors with services in the areas of
guidance analysis, idea protection, idea registration, patent saver
(reduced costs to patent inventions), and market research. Membership required.
RMDZ Favorites
These links have been recommended by zone administrators and
RMDZ program staff. They have been valuable to people working in the
program on an ongoing basis. Do you have a favorite link you'd like to add?
E-mail Julie Trueblood at
jtruebl@ciwmb.ca.gov.
For your convenience, the type of link is noted using the following
categories: Listserv, Membership Required,
Database(s), Publications, and Exchange (ads or classifieds).
General Recycling Resources
- Global Recycling Network. GRN
is a free-access public site dedicated to recycling-related
information. It offers all companies involved in the recycling
industry a wide exposure through web publishing services, online sales
and catalogs, and advertising. Categories: Publications, Directories
- National Waste Prevention
Coalition. E-mail messages and documents concerning
all sorts of issues in the recycling world. The archive dates
back to January 1999. Category: Publications
- GreenBiz. A
resource center with links to all sorts of sites and other business
assistance related tools. There are several directories and
programs that are potential assets for businesses that deal with
recycling. Category: Publications.
- Northeast
Recycling Council. NERC publications,
bulletins and minutes from previous meetings. NERC's mission is
to minimize the amount of materials requiring disposal by promoting
the environmental and economic benefits of recycling and source
reduction in the Northeast. Categories: Publications,
Membership Required.
- Environmental Organization Web
Directory. Advertised as "Earth's Biggest Environment
Search Engine," the directory provides information on a
wealth of environmental subjects. Some of the many subjects
include information on education, health, weather, and animals. Categories:
Publications, Directories.
- SMART (Secondary Materials and
Recycled Textiles Association). In its online Market Place for
Secondary Materials and Recycled Textiles, SMART offers members free space to advertise materials wanted or for
sale. The site is
dedicated to strengthening the economic opportunities of its members. Category: Exchange.
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Recycler's World.
A free, globally accessible, electronic business-to-business (B2B)
eCommerce marketplace. Recycler's World was established as a
worldwide trading site for information related to secondary or
recyclable commodities, by-products, used and surplus items or
materials. The Recycler's Exchange is designed to assist companies and
individuals who buy/sell/trade: secondary/recyclable commodities,
waste-related materials, used and surplus equipment, other used
materials and items, consumer goods and collectibles, and related
goods and services. Category: Exchange.
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GrantsWeb. The Society of Research Administrators developed
this web site to give state and local government officials and
employees easy access to federal grants and funding information in a
user-friendly format. Category: Links.
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Small Business
Administration. A wealth of information on starting and
financing your business. Includes business opportunities,
business education, a procurement and marketing access network, local
offices and their services, and links to numerous helpful resources. Categories:
Publications, Links, Directories, Databases.
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California
Community Economic Revitalization Team Grants and Loans. A
list of current federal and state grant offerings.
Resources by Material Type
Electronics
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NRC Electronics Initiative. The National Recycling Coalition (NRC)
offers a number of resources on how to manage electronic products in
an environmentally and economically responsible way throughout their
lifecycle. Information on events, the electronics recycling
initiative, and online discussions and transcripts. Category:
Publications
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National
Safety Council/Electronics Recycling. Features the Electronics
Product Recovery and Recycling project (EPR2), "...one of the
most comprehensive and informative reports on the current state of
electronics recycling," which can be purchased on-line, and free
highlights of its results; how to recycle old computers; regulating
the industry; and resources, including a national directory of
computer recycling programs and an international trade association for
electronics recyclers. Categories: Publications,
Directories.
Plastic
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Plastics
Recycling in the Bay Area. Contact information for companies that
process plastics in the San Francisco Bay Area, including types
accepted. Category: Directory.
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Plastics
Resource. This site includes the state of plastics recycling,
recycling statistics, and many tools for making plastics recycling
work, including a Recycled Market Products Database. The database enables users to buy or sell plastic
products nationally. Category: Exchange, Publication, Links,
Directory.
Tires
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Scrap Tire News.
Information on
uses for scrap tires--links and articles on tire recycling.
Publications include Scrap Tire News, Scrap Tire & Rubber Users
Directory, State Scrap Tire Management Programs, and Tire Recycling Is
Fun. Online ordering. Categories: Publications,
Directories, Links.
Wood and Paper
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Technical Association
of the Pulp and Paper Industry. Industry news, upcoming
events, and a source of great, inexpensive and free educational
materials. Categories: Publications, Links.
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American
Forest & Paper Association. Includes
recycling overview, resources for recycling coordinators, educational
tools, AF&PA recycling programs, hot topics, community recycling
survey, and the National Wood Recycling Directory. The site is a
comprehensive clearinghouse for sharing current information about U.S.
paper recycling. Categories: Exchange, Directory.
Two studies were conducted for the Board and results presented in
January 2002. Although the studies had different goals, both came to
similar conclusions. Diversion creates twice as many jobs, double the
income, and twice the sales per ton of material than does disposal.
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The Economic Impact of Waste Disposal
and Diversion in California (Adobe PDF, 1.4 MB) was produced by the University of California,
Berkeley (UCB). The UCB study estimated the economic impacts of the waste
disposal and diversion system created under the Integrated Waste Management
Act (AB 939, Sher, Chapter 1095, Statutes of 1989).
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California Recycling Economic
Information Study (Adobe PDF, 1.1 MB) was produced by the National Recycling Coalition (NRC). The
NRC study documented the size and economic impact of the recycling and reuse
industries in California.
A Board-produced summary of these
two studies can be downloaded or ordered from our online Publications
Catalog. You may also contact
John Nuffer
of the RMDZ program for more information.
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