Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:47:19 -0700 From: Hood.Timonie@no.address To: CRRA@no.address
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking feedback on the Resource Conservation Challenge initiative launched by Acting EPA Administrator Marianne Lamont Horinko to put the "resource conservation" back into the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act by challenging all Americans to get involved in reducing waste through innovative voluntary programs. See <http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/osw/conserve>.
Please share this with your colleagues. Brief suggestions on possible voluntary projects or partnerships that meet RCC goals and could grow with national attention are welcome, as are general comments on the RCC.
While the RCC focuses on voluntary partnerships, EPA remains firmly committed to active enforcement and compliance assistance programs.
The RCC has three broad goals that are linked directly to EPA's mission and cut across traditional programs:
1. Conserve energy by using better materials and design, and recover energy from things now viewed as waste.
2 Increase materials and resource efficiency through source reduction, re-use, and recycling of hazardous and municipal solid wastes (Increase recycling rate to 35%), among other waste streams.
3. Reduce target chemicals at all stages in the life cycle, including products, waste (municipal, industrial, and hazardous), and emissions. (There are currently 30 chemicals targeted for reduction listed at <http://www.epa.gov/wastemin>).
The RCC proposed eleven initial â??Clustersâ?? to increase coordination between offices and partners, highlight RCC successes in the near-term, and build momentum for additional partnerships: Electronics, Tires, Green Building, Construction and Demolition Debris, Targeted Chemicals, Schools, Paper, Industrial Waste, Hospitals, Industrial Design, and Organics/Composting.
Current Innovations Pilot funding solicitation (deadline December 5. 2003) is available at <http://www.epa.gov/oswer/iwg>.
Comments including your address and phone number should be submitted by November 28, 2003 to:
rcc-challenge@no.address
Please copy doordan.kelly@no.address in EPA Region 9 on comments from Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, or the Pacific Islands.
Thank you for your work to reduce waste and for sharing your suggestions with us!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kelly Doordan U.S. EPA Region 9 Office of Pollution Prevention and Solid Waste 75 Hawthorne St. (WST-7) San Francisco, CA 94105 doordan.kelly@no.address http://www.epa.gov/region09/waste/solid