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The Board approved the scoring criteria and evaluation process for the
Reuse Assistance Grants program for fiscal year 2007/2008 in agenda item 9
at its November 15, 2006 meeting and approved staff's recommendations for
the following six recipients in agenda item #22 at its
July 17, 2007
meeting. Nine applications were
submitted during the open application period, January 26, 2007 through March
23, 2007.
The following jurisdictions received grants to promote the concept of reuse.
Description of project:
The City and County of San Francisco, in partnership with Goodwill
Industries, San Francisco Connect and StreetTech, will establish a
sustainable system to divert large volumes of high quality business
computers from recycling to reuse. Extensive outreach will be conducted to
500 businesses targeting computer reuse and enabling these businesses to
easily donate their used computers. Donated computers will be refurbished as
part of Goodwill and Street Tech’s vocational training programs. Refurbished
computers will be made available to low-income residents to increase their
access to and use of technology.
Description of project:
El Dorado County’s Environmental Management
Department, in partnership with Snowline Hospice’s Placerville Thrift Store
(Snowline), will expand Snowlines current reuse efforts by using grant funds
to hire an additional driver, purchase an additional truck and support an
outreach campaign. This will 1) increase the number of residential pick-ups;
2) increase the rate at which residential pick-ups are made; and 3) support
a county wide outreach campaign through various media efforts, such as a
local newspaper and fairs and shows regarding these new reuse opportunities.
Description of project:
The City of Fresno is in the process of developing a state-of-the-art
reuse facility on the same parcel that their new permanent Household
Hazardous Waste (HHW) Facility is located. Grant funds will be used to
purchase large storage containers, a platform scale, forklift and pay for
staff time. E-waste, household hazardous waste, construction and demolition
materials, and other various materials will be diverted from disposal and
the HHW drop off site so that it can be resold at the reuse facility. The
City of Fresno, in partnership with Sunset Waste Paper, Inc. will target
local businesses about reuse and opportunities that the reuse facility
provides as well as provide tours for area schools.
Description of project:
Marin County currently requires all construction projects to demonstrate
that at least 50 percent of their construction and demolition (C&D)
materials are reused or recycled. While the counties C&D Reuse and Recycling
Ordinance (2003) program has been effective in raising awareness of C&D
reuse and recycling, the majority of compliance is met through diversion of
C&D materials delivered to the local waste materials recovery facility,
Marin Resource Recovery Center, where primarily wood waste materials are
diverted for alternative daily cover and biomass fuel. Reusable construction
materials are not sorted for resale at this facility or anywhere within the
County.
In order to target C&D materials for their best and highest use Marin
County’s Community Development Agency will target the expansion of their C&D
ordinance and green building program through three objectives: 1) establish
an economically viable Marin County based deconstruction business to provide
services to contractors, businesses and homeowners; 2) establish a C&D
materials reuse facility in the County; and 3) conduct reuse education and
training programs for local building industry and provide policy
implementation assistance to local cities and towns regarding C&D reuse.
Description of project:
The City of Santa Maria, in partnership with Textile Waste Solutions, Inc,
will expand current efforts of post consumer textile reuse in northern Santa
Barbara County. Currently, textile items that are not sold by local thrift
stores but are still useable will be targeted during the course of this
grant project. Since there are no markets in the United States for these
types of textiles they will be shipped to markets where large percentages of
the population are needy. Grant funds will be used to expand the collection
and marketing of textiles, shipping costs, and enhance outreach efforts to
thrift stores and large retail outlets by targeting their reusable yet
non-sellable products. Outreach will be devoted to improve the flow of
textiles within the County.
Description of project:
Sonoma County Waste Management Authority will conduct an outreach campaign
to increase reuse of building materials throughout the County. This campaign
will incorporate various outreach mediums to target 185 local companies that
will target construction professionals, the general public, professional
building associations, chambers of commerce, school programs for building
professionals and home improvement stores.
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