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25 Aug 99 - house reuse; eco-parks; junk phone books ** WASTE PREVENTION FORUM ** -- A project of the National Waste Prevention Coalition -------- Forum archive: http://www.reuses.com/nwpcarchive ------------------- Excerpted from e-mail from Cathy Graves, Santa Cruz County Planning Department, Santa Cruz, CA (forwarded by Jeffrey Smedberg): MOVING HOUSES FOR REUSE With increased housing prices, there seems to be a renewed interest in "recycling" houses. Before existing houses in Santa Cruz County can be demolished (because the owner wishes to construct a new one, or the old home sits on a lot that has been subdivided), if the house is determined to be suitable to be moved, the owner must advertise the house as available to be moved. It seems that, in the Live Oak area at least, these homes are becoming more popular, and are being relocated rather than demolished. In fact, there is an entire minor land division, at the corner of Chanticleer and Rodriguez Avenues, that will be the new location for three such homes, and the original home on the property was also moved to a new lot. There is a home that was moved from a minor land division on 41st Avenue and a home that was removed from 16th Avenue so that the owner could construct a new home on the lot. Although it's not something we generally think about as recycling, I would imagine that moving rather than demolition helps keep quite a lot of material out of the landfill. Jeffrey's e-mail: dpw179 ( AT ) scruza ( DOT ) cahwnet ( DOT ) gov -------------------- >From Brian McVay, waste reduction consultant, Eugene, OR, responding to Alex Cuyler's 8/23/99 request for information on eco-industrial parks: Del Norte County, California, has been doing extensive work on a zero waste action plan for their isolated region in northern California. A Resource Recovery Park program would be one of the cornerstones of this plan. This program has been designed to convert a former mill site to a Resource Recovery Park (RRP): a cluster development of complimentary businesses and organizations processing and adding value to discarded materials. A RRP could include businesses in salvage, resale, reuse, repair, remanufacturing, processing recyclables, small-scale manufacturing using recovered materials as feedstock, and composting. The Resource Recovery Park development is still in its infancy. The work that has been completed will be certainly useful. Contact Ted Ward, at Del Norte Solid Waste Management Authority, (707) 465-1100. E-mail: bmcvay (AT) worldnet (DOT) att (DOT) net ------------------ Excerpted from e-mail from Margaret Kitchell, Seattle area resident (forwarded by Kinley Deller): I recently got a fat GTE Yellow Pages telephone directory delivered to my house (not by U.S. mail), which I did not want. This is a secondary, competing phone book (not the main one, which is distributed by US West), but this one is also very thick. Last year I called GTE and told them I didn't want it, and I wanted them to pick it back up. They told me to recycle it. I told them I still expected them to pick it back up. They never did. I have just looked at the http://www.junkbusters.com/ site. They mostly address telemarketing calls, U.S. Postal Service mail, and junk e-mail, not junk delivered to your door. Does anyone have any ideas on how to try to get GTE to stop? I am sure I am not the only one who wants to know. I could even compose a letter to the newspapers telling people how to do it, if we just knew how. Thank you! E-mail: kitchell [ AT ] Seanet [ DOT ] com - end -