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22 Mar 00 - job opening; Eddie Bauer; Kingdome bites the dust ** WASTE PREVENTION FORUM ** -- A project of the National Waste Prevention Coalition -------- Forum archive: http://www.reuses.com/nwpcarchive -------------------- Excerpted from message from Scott Mouw, North Carolina Division of Pollution Prevention and Environmental Assistance, Raleigh, NC: The Carolina Recycling Association (CRA) is seeking candidates for the position of Executive Director. CRA is a nonprofit membership organization. Its office is located in Raleigh, North Carolina. It has a full-time staff of five professionals, and a current annual budget of approximately $300,000. CRA's mission is to conserve resources by advancing waste reduction and recycling throughout both North and South Carolina. Candidates should have leadership skills and direct recycling experience. Duties include being active on legislative and policy matters; fundraising; administering budget and supervising four staff; improving services to attract and keep members; overseeing annual conference and other outreach activities; and seeking strategic partnerships with other organizations. Compensation is competitive with similar-sized non-profits, and includes full benefits, merit pay and incentives. Good speaking and writing skills and experience in fundraising and membership development are desired. Submit resume and two references by May 5, 2000 to: CRA Search Committee, c/o Langdon Warner, College of Engineering and Information Technology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208. Phone: (803) 777-7540 Fax: (803) 777-0973 E-mail: warnerl [AT] engr [DOT] sc [DOT] edu ------------------ >From David Stitzhal, Full Circle Environmental, Seattle, WA: I am helping manage and implement an Apparel Industry Product Stewardship Demonstration Program on behalf of the King County Solid Waste Division, the City of Seattle, and the Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10. We are working with Northwest-based apparel retailers to identify product stewardship opportunities, both in-house and in the context of their vendor relations. As part of this program, I have been in touch with representatives from Eddie Bauer, which is based in Redmond, Washington. They have a number of concerns which I am hoping to help them address, in part through the creative solutions I am hoping you can offer. Please feel free to pass this e-mail on to other parties who you believe might be of assistance. End-of-Life Fixtures First, Eddie Bauer generates a steady supply of end-of-life store fixtures. (These are the fixtures used throughout the store to display merchandise.) Although these are custom fixtures which from time to time are placed at nearby Eddie Bauer stores to update their current displays, they generally head to a landfill. This is due in part to the short time frame in which they need to be moved out of a closing or remodeled store, and in part due to their older generation of design. Eddie Bauer has offered store managers faced with a switch-out a financial incentive to find alternatives to disposal. This is usually cheaper than paying for disposal, and helps cover the local managers' labor costs for identifying and implementing a reuse option. However, the logistics of this approach are formidable, and few managers go in this direction. While local reuse options - i.e. advertising in local papers, and through local non-profit organizations - can present some options, it is a hit-or-miss prospect that most store managers do not have the time to pursue. If a national solution could be designed, it would serve Eddie Bauer better, and might provide participating organizations with material of value. At a minimum, I am hoping you can provide a list of local liquidators in your area who can be hooked up with Eddie Bauer. Standard Perimeter Shelving A second issue raised by Eddie Bauer is the generation of perimeter display shelving. Such shelving is of a standard 48 by 16 inches. It is paintable. Eddie Bauer switches such shelving out with some regularity in an effort to keep their stores as up-to-date and new-looking as possible. (FYI, I have already suggested an in-house refurbishing program.) I am looking for large-scale outlets that might accommodate a steady stream of such units. Habitat for Humanity and other related outlets with national reach might be ideal. Please let me know if you have any options for accepting this stream. All creative ideas will be appreciated. E-mail: Fullcircle [ A T ] nwnexus [ D O T ] com Phone: 206-723-0528 ------------------ >From Tom Watson, coordinator, National Waste Prevention Coalition, Seattle, WA: This Sunday, March 26, Seattle's Kingdome, an indoor sports stadium, will be blown up to make room for a new outdoor football stadium. (An outdoor baseball stadium, with a retractable roof, has already been built next to the Kingdome.) The Kingdome, which could hold 74,000 people, was only 24 years old and was perfectly functional. It's going to be a sad day for resource conservation, in my opinion. Here are a few selected quotes, from the 3/19/00 Seattle Times, about the implosion of the Kingdome: John Spellman, former Washington state governor, and head of the King County government when the Kingdome was built (King County owned the Kingdome): "This is symbolic of our 'trash-it' era... Now, if something's 20 years old, we have to get rid of it. That's regrettable. We have very little history and what we do have, we don't respect." Jack Christiansen, architect of the Kingdome: "It's sad, just very sad. It's a superior structure. It's maddening to think they could spend millions of dollars to tear it down... I feel terrible. Sick. Mad as hell, actually." Bill Sears, longtime head of communications for the Kingdome, who was instrumental in the campaign to build it: "I see this as the whole community going on a big drunk. When they sober up they're going to realize what they did." (This is Tom again) To be honest, many people think the Kingdome was ugly and not a very good place to watch sports, and they're happy it's being torn down. Some people are trying to look on the bright side: More than 90 percent of the demolition debris from the Kingdome will be recycled. Why doesn't that cheer me up, as I look out my office window at this enormous mushroom of a building, which will be a pile of rubble in just four days? E-mail: tom [DOT] watson [AT] metrokc [DOT] gov - end -