[GreenYes] Fairfax, CA (Marin County) Passed Zero Waste Resolution on 3-7-07

[Gary Liss <gary@no.address>]

Apologies for Cross-Postings

>From: "Bruce Baum" <b-baum@no.address>
>Subject: Fairfax Passes ZW resolution
>Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 10:00:09 -0800
>
>Some positive news from Fairfax??..Last night at 
>the town council Fairfax became the first Marin 
>town to adopt a Zero Waste by 2020 Resolution 
>(attached): Mayor Larry Bragman introduced the 
>resolution for approval. Vote was 4-1
>
>For more information I can be reached at 707-459-5859
>
>Bruce Baum
>ZW Citizens Advisory Committee
>
>Some quick points on ZW that were made last evening:
>
>Zero Waste is a philosophy and a design 
>principle for the 21st Century. It includes 
>'recycling' but goes beyond recycling by taking 
>a 'whole system' approach to the vast flow of 
>resources and waste through human society.
>
>Zero Waste maximizes recycling, minimizes waste, 
>reduces consumption and ensures that products 
>are made to be reused, repaired or recycled back 
>into nature or the 
>marketplace.  <http://www.grrn.org/zerowaste/>http://www.grrn.org/zerowaste/
>
>
>·        In 2002 CIWMB adopted a goal of Zero 
>Waste as one of it?s guiding principles 
><http://www.zerowaste.ca.gov/>http://www.zerowaste.ca.gov/
>
>·        Cities and counties around the state 
>have adopted ZW resolutions including model 
>programs in SF & Palo Alto Most municipalities 
>in the Bay Area have also adopted ZW resolutions 
>and strategies. (Oakland recently passed theirs).  None in Marin!
>    * November, 2006 Marin County?s Solid waste 
> JPA passed a ZW resolution with a 2020 goal 
> that Fairfax, a JPA member, agreed to.
>    * ?Zero Waste, The Complement to 
> Sustainability for Fairfax?, was approved by 
> the Planning Commission March 2006.
>    * Fairfax took leadership over 10 years ago 
> --- when Fairfax adopted the first retail food 
> polystyrene take out regulations in Marin.
>    * Recycling was last century?s solution to 
> garbage while Marin?s numbers may be 
> impressive, they are very misleading, Recycling 
> is not the solution to our long term problems.
>    * ZW is about looking at the other end of 
> the pipe from recycling. Simply put source 
> reduction, including producer responsibility, 
> reuse, recycling, and composting.
>    * Fairfax, took the leadership role in Marin 
> County as first municipality in Marin to adopt a ZW resolution. --

Gary Liss
916-652-7850
Fax: 916-652-0485
www.garyliss.com 
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