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05 Nov 01 - business tips; product stewardship; office paper; Portland plan; direct mail ** WASTE PREVENTION FORUM ** -- A project of the National Waste Prevention Coalition -------- Forum archive: http://www.reuses.com/nwpcarchive -------------------- Link to extensive information on waste prevention and recycling strategies for businesses, from the Wastesaver.com website (first seen in Roger Guttentag's "Recycling in Cyberspace" column in Resource Recycling magazine): http://www.wastesaver.com/wp_sectors.asp In this website, detailed waste prevention information is provided for these business sectors: Apartment/condominium complexes; construction and demolition; hospitals; hotels; manufacturers; offices; printers; restaurants; and retail stores. Wastesaver.com is a privately-owned online service based in New York City that links businesses with recycling and garbage haulers. The co-founders of Wastesaver are Steve Hammer and Jill Krevlin Edinburg. Note from Tom: This is a very useful website that includes tips, waste composition graphs for each sector, a "Trends to Watch" section and links to other websites. -------------------- Excerpted from messages from Gary Liss, Gary Liss & Associates, Loomis, CA, and Skip Lacaze, City of San Jose, CA, and from information from the websites below: INDUSTRY GROUPS BLAST PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP The California Integrated Waste Management Board is currently in the process of updating its strategic plan. This document will be the basis for allocating staff resources, budget development, contract funding, and developing future legislative proposals. More than 30 major industry groups (representing manufacturers, mining companies, timber companies, etc.) have gone on record opposing the draft plan. They object to a number of terms and concepts mentioned in the draft plan, including "zero waste," "product stewardship," "extended product responsibility," "environmentally preferable products" and "manufacturer responsibility." The industry groups say that these concepts would create "a more hostile business climate for California manufacturers." The industry opposition is being led by the California Chamber of Commerce and the California Manufacturers and Technology Association (CMTA). Here is more information on industry's slant on this issue, from the CMTA website: http://www.camfg.com/legweekly/102201.shtml#waste Here is a copy of the October draft of the Board's strategic plan, which the industry groups are objecting to: http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/agendas/mtgdocs/2001/11/00006552.doc The board is scheduled to discuss the strategic plan at a Nov. 7 agenda briefing and at a full board meeting on Nov. 13-14. Gary's e-mail: gary ( A T ) garyliss ( D O T ) com Skip's e-mail: Skip [ DOT ] Lacaze [ AT ] ci [ DOT ] sj [ DOT ] ca [ DOT ] us -------------------- Link to a November, 2001, column on office paper reduction by Dan Ruben on the GreenBiz.com website (forwarded by Dan Ruben): http://www.greenbiz.com/news/columns_third.cfm?NewsID=18334&pic=3 -------------------- Link to a July, 2001, draft plan from the City of Portland, "Beyond 60 Percent: Achieving the 2005 Solid Waste Recovery Goal and Future Program Direction," on the website of the city's Office of Sustainable Development (OSD): http://www.sustainableportland.org/2001_plan_draft4.pdf The draft plan is in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Public comments received on this draft plan, and the city's response, are at: http://www.sustainableportland.org/recycle_pub.html Scroll down and click on "Compiled public comments and OSD response." Portland's Office of Sustainable Development (OSD) includes the city's Solid Waste and Recycling Division, the Energy Division, and the Green Building Division. The main OSD website is at: http://www.sustainableportland.org/ -------------------- Excerpted from an article by John Fountain in the 10/30/01 New York Times (forwarded by Jeff Gaisford): DIRECT MAIL INDUSTRY RESPONDS TO ANTHRAX CONCERNS Industry leaders attending the Direct Marketing Association's annual convention in Chicago announced that they were taking precautions to ease fear about anthrax. Among the steps is the addition of company logos to advertising letters and parcels, or a more prominent display of such logos, industry officials said. They also noted that return addresses and Web addresses had been added to make direct mail more easily identifiable. The precautions mark another ripple effect of the recent anthrax cases. A sense of caution has trickled down to junk mail and stands to affect an industry that depends on getting people to open their mail. Industry officials say that so far, business has not been hurt. No commercial mail had been blamed for the transmission of anthrax. Direct marketing draws some $528 billion in sales annually and is expected to reach $580 billion this year, industry officials said. At a news briefing, members of the association said early indications were that they would do well this Christmas despite the anthrax scare. - end -