From: Rory Bakke <rbakke@no.address> To: 'Gary Liss' <gary@no.address> Cc: vodriozo@no.address Subject: RE: [GAIA] Questions on Waste Prevention and ZW goals Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 18:18:25 -0800
I am currently working on a waste prevention protocol for Alameda County. Our County Charter (Measure D section voted in and held up in Court in 1991) requires us to achieve 75% overall diversion by 2010 with 20% of that coming from "source reduction." We are referring to it as waste prevention. We have started where we will get the big bang for the buck - in the nonresidential sector. We did a study called the Waste Production Measurement Study (on our website under Research and Studies and at the bottom of the list). The website is: www.stopwaste.org. Now we are building on that study. I will soon be doing a brief survey of several programs and businesses around the country to ask them which waste prevention practices they think are best to focus on because: a - they actually have seen resulting prevention/avoidance of waste or more efficient use of materials as a result of instituting this as a best practice; and b - they are replicable. This means we are heading toward a practice-based approach. This still does not say how we will account specifically for these practices - in other words how much diversion we will attribute to the institutions of that practice but I am working on that part and will be doing so for the next year. That is a VERY quick response and I know it does not answer all your questions but contact me again in 9 months or so and hopefully, I will have more specifics for you.
Check out the study on our website too.
Rory Bakke
-----Original Message----- From: Gary Liss [mailto:gary@no.address] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 1:48 PM To: gary@no.address Cc: vodriozo@no.address Subject: Fwd: [GAIA] Questions on Waste Prevention and ZW goals
If you can help, please respond to Veronica directly, and cc: me.
Thanks!
Gary
>From: vodriozo@no.address (Veronica Odriozola) >Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:51:03 -0500 > >...I took a look at different zero waste resolutions and some talk about >zero waste diversion from landfills. While I see this as a positive step >I can't see any reflection of the need to prevent waste in that >commitment. You can continuously grow your per capita waste generation >while diverting most of it to recycling programs for useless products. > >Can anyone tell me how waste prevention is dealt with in quantitaive goals >in other cities or regions that you know? ie, are there waste reduction >laws besides waste diversion from landfill or incinerators? > >Veronica Odriozola
Gary Liss 916-652-7850 Fax: 916-652-0485