Dear
Colleagues:
PSI is
starting up 3 new national product stewardship
dialogues:
·
Fluorescent
Lamps
·
Medical
Sharps
·
Pharmaceuticals
This email is
to update you on these dialogues and to ask whether you would like to
participate.
Fluorescent
Lamps
PSI will soon
release a draft Product Stewardship Action Plan on Fluorescent Lighting
for review and comment. We are also planning a first National Dialogue meeting
in Salt Lake City, Utah in April. In addition, we have begun two pilot retail
collection projects.
- PSI and
Women’s Voices for the Earth have started to design a pilot retail
collection project for fluorescent lamps and mercury-containing thermostats
in Colorado, Montana, South Dakota, and Utah, where we are working with
utilities and state government in those states. Ace hardware stores will
collect these items for recycling from May through December 2008. PSI will
create a “how-to” document for retailers based on the results of the
project.
- PSI and
Washington Citizens for Resource Conservation will be expanding the Take it
Back Network in Washington State to engage additional retailers in the
collection of fluorescent lamps.
EPA Region 8
has provided funding for the retail pilot and first National Dialogue
meeting. Washington Department of Ecology has provided funding for two
subsequent national dialogue meetings, tentatively scheduled for July and
October. Funding is still being sought for a fourth National Dialogue
meeting.
To learn more
about the Action Plan, national dialogue, and retail pilot projects, go to:
www.productstewardship.us/FluorescentLightingProject.
This project
is being managed by Sierra Fletcher, PSI Associate for Policy and
Programs. If you are interested in more information, please contact
Sierra at sierra@no.address or
617-236-4886.
If
you want to participate, please let Sierra know the level of involvement you
would like to have (please provide full contact
information):
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updates
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updates + information on dialogue meetings
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updates + information on dialogue meetings + information on pilot projects
Medical
Sharps
PSI
is currently conducting background research, including interviews with
representatives from the medical sharps industry, government agencies, and
other key stakeholders. A Project
Summary has been
developed that will be updated as new information is obtained. The research
and interviews will then be used to develop a Product Stewardship Action
Plan for Medical Sharps, which will serve as the basis for four
face-to-face meetings with key stakeholders. The first meeting will be held in
Boston in April or May. The Action Plan will include an issue statement,
dialogue goals, key issues, and potential solutions. As part of this project,
PSI will identify areas in which the sharps disposal issue overlaps with the
broader pharmaceutical disposal issue.
This project
is being managed by Susan Frechette, PSI Senior Associate for Policy and
Programs. If you are interested in more information, please contact
Susan at susan@no.address or
617-236-4866.
If
you want to participate, let Susan know the level of involvement you would
like to have (please provide full contact
information):
___ General
updates
___ General
updates + information on dialogue meetings
Pharmaceuticals
PSI
has begun a separate effort on pharmaceuticals disposal management and has
conducted over 30 stakeholder interviews and developed a
Project
Prospectus and
a
Project
Summary. A draft
Product Stewardship Action Plan for Unwanted/Waste Pharmaceuticals is
also being developed. We are planning a first National Dialogue meeting in
Sacramento, California in mid-June in partnership with the California
Integrated Waste Management Board.
This project
is being managed by Susan Frechette, PSI Senior Associate for Policy and
Programs. If you are interested in more information, please contact
Susan at susan@no.address or
617-236-4866.
If
you want to participate, let Susan know the level of involvement you would
like to have (please provide full contact
information):
___ General
updates
___ General
updates + information on dialogue meetings
DON’T FORGET
THE PSI FORUM
These and
other initiatives will be discussed at PSI’s Annual Product Stewardship forum
in Boston on June 3-5. For more information, contact Erin Linsky, PSI
Associate for Development and Communications, at erin@no.address or
617-236-4853.
We look
forward to working with many of you on these
initiatives.
Scott
****************************************
Scott Cassel, Executive
Director/Founder
Product Stewardship
Institute, Inc.
137
Newbury Street, 7th Floor
Boston, MA
02116
617-236-4855
(ph)
617-859-9889
(fax)
scott@no.address
www.productstewardship.us