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07 Feb 00 - reaching teens; oil and water; climate change; mercury; Denmark conference ** WASTE PREVENTION FORUM ** -- A project of the National Waste Prevention Coalition -------- Forum archive: http://www.reuses.com/nwpcarchive --------------------- >From Vickie Bushnell, Kitsap County Solid Waste Division, Port Orchard, WA: I am looking for innovative methods the forum members may have used, or heard of, to reach teenagers to raise their awareness of waste prevention. School programs, media campaigns, celebrity role models, surveys - I would like to hear about it. Thank you. E-mail: vbushnel ( A T ) co ( D O T ) kitsap ( D O T ) wa ( D O T ) us --------------------- >From Catherine Dickerson and Michelle Gaither, Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center, Seattle, WA: I am looking for information or expertise on implementing monitoring systems on oil/water separators for small shops: automotive, detail, machine shops, etc. Does anyone have any good leads for this? E-mail: cdickerson ( AT ) pprc ( DOT ) org --------------------- Excerpted from message from Christine McCoy, National Recycling Coalition (NRC), Alexandria, VA: The National Recycling Coalition's Source Reduction Forum has decided to take a slightly different approach than we originally planned for our Climate Change - Waste Reduction Peer Match Program. Rather than partnering only a small number of local and state government representatives with peers, we have decided to take a broader, more inclusive approach. To provide greater networking and information-sharing opportunities, we will instead host monthly on-line discussions (similar to those currently being conducted by NRC's Electronics Recycling Initiative). Starting on April 11th - and on every second Tuesday of the month in the six months that follow - NRC's Source Reduction Forum will invite interested parties to participate in real-time, on-line discussions with a panel of experts in the area of Climate Change and Waste Reduction. Topics to be addressed include: Why climate change is relevant to recycling and waste prevention (i.e., waste reduction) professionals; climate change impacts of recycling and waste prevention; calculating reduced greenhouse gas emissions resulting from recycling; calculating reduced greenhouse gas emissions resulting from waste prevention; using the Environmental Protection Agency's WARM software; integrating waste reduction into climate change action plans. We believe this approach will allow a larger audience to participate and to obtain the tools and information they need to make the connection between climate change and waste reduction. As part of this project, we are developing a webpage that will provide resources and links to information regarding climate change and waste reduction. The webpage will provide background documents and information on the topics to be addressed during our monthly discussions. We will also provide a message board, where visitors can ask questions and experts can post answers to specific questions. Once the webpage and message board are operating, I'll send out more information on this program. I encourage all of you to post questions to the message board and join us for the discussions. In the meantime, if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me. E-mail: ChristineM (AT) NRC-Recycle (DOT) org ---------------------- Excerpted from an item from the 1/24/00 Waste News (forwarded by Stephanie Davis): Springfield, MA - The Northeast Waste Management Officials Association (NEWMOA) is one of four organizations to receive an award from a consortium of New England health and environmental groups for its efforts to reduce mercury emissions and exposures. The waste association received the award for developing model state legislation that would ban all nonessential mercury uses and require product take-back and labeling by manufacturers. The draft legislation comes on the heels of the northeastern governors' recently adopted Mercury Action Plan goal, calling for the virtual elimination of mercury releases from human activities. "Legislation like NEWMOA's is now under consideration in Massachusetts, Vermont, New York, Maine and New Hampshire," said Michael Bender, executive director of the Mercury Policy Project. --------------------- Excerpted from a message from the Euro Environment Secretariat, Aalborg, Denmark (forwarded by Bahar Keskin): The Euro Environment 2000 conference will take place in Aalborg, Denmark, Oct. 18-20, 2000. The conference is seeking abstracts for presentations from business, government, non-government organizations and academia. The deadline for submission of abstracts is Feb. 15. Abstracts should be in English. The conference themes are: The public and political agenda; corporate management; strategic environmental management; technology innovation; product innovation and design; stakeholder communication. For more information, see the conference website at: http://www.akkc.dk/environment E-mail: euro (AT) akkc (DOT) dk - end -