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17 Apr 01 - food vendor contract language; reusable totes; Ricoh; office furniture glut ** WASTE PREVENTION FORUM ** -- A project of the National Waste Prevention Coalition -------- Forum archive: http://www.reuses.com/nwpcarchive -------------------- From Don Van Dyke, California Integrated Waste Management Board, business waste reduction programs and Waste Prevention Information Exchange, Sacramento, CA: A major food facility is being constructed at the University of San Francisco. Organizers are looking for assistance in drafting a contract with the food vendor. They are seeking examples of contracts and samples of contract language that they can use as a model. The facility will serve both take-out food and food to be eaten on-site in a food-court cafeteria. The facility will also cater on-site lunches of up to 200 to 800 people. The contract will include use of: Reusable utensils to the greatest extent feasible; purchasing only recycled-content disposable utensils and paper products; food composting; and cooking grease collection. If you know of similar contracts or have contract language, please contact Kathryn Hyde at: khyde (A T) fm (D O T) ucsf (D O T) edu Please also cc me at: dvandyke [ A T ] ciwmb [ D O T ] ca [ D O T ] gov When I get some sample language, I will make it available to others through the Waste Prevention Information Exchange at http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/WPIE/ -------------------- Excerpted from a message from Steve Engel, Metro, Portland, OR, responding to the 4/16/01 posting asking whether anyone has information on reusable transport packaging for fish: I'm pretty sure there's a business in Tacoma named Xytec that makes reusable plastic totes. Some of their products even fold down after use so they won't use up as much truck space in being reshipped. Xytec had a Clean Washington Center grant for equipment to recycle HDPE plastic bottles into their totes and pallets. And when the product breaks eventually, it can be ground up and recycled once more. E-mail: Engels (A T) metro (D O T) dst (D O T) or (D O T) us Note from Tom: This listing for the company was found on the Recycler's World website: Perstorp Xytec Inc., P.O. Box 99057, Tacoma, Washington, 98499. Toll-free phone: (800) 423-3221. Phone: (206) 582-0644. Contact: Ron Springer. This website, from KMP Plastics in Fullerton, California, also has information on Xytec containers: http://www.kmpplastics.com/xytec.html -------------------- Link to a 4/16/01 article, from the Global Network of Environment & Technology website, about the Ricoh corporation's announcement that some of its facilities have achieved their goal of zero waste (forwarded by Barbara Zaccheo): http://www.gnet.org/Coldfusion/News_Page2.cfm?NewsID=15708 Note from Tom: For more information, see this Ricoh environmental conservation website: http://www.ricoh.co.jp/ecology/e-/recycle/index.html Scroll down for zero waste information. --------------------- Link to an article by John Cook in the 4/17/01 Seattle Post-Intelligencer, about how there is now a glut of used office furniture in Seattle and some other cities because so many Internet or "dot-com" companies have gone out of business: http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/business/18977_furniture17.shtml The article notes that nationally, 147 Internet companies have shut their doors this year, with another 380 companies sold. As these companies shed staff or close down, more and more used furniture - some of it only a couple months old - comes onto the market. - end -