Upcoming
Certification Course on Recycling
Register today for the May
16-18 Recycling Facility Operator Certification Course! This is the last class
offered until the Fall hosted by the NM Recycling Coalition. Our next Composting
Class is scheduled for October 17-19 in Albuquerque and the second Recycling
class is scheduled on December 5-7 in Santa Fe. For certification status
questions, please contact Charles Ferguson at 505-762-3728 or
charles_ferguson@nmenv.state.nm.us
Register online for any of
these classes at
www.recyclenewmexico.com/cert_classes.htm
Managing Waste
Conference - Early Bird Deadline May 1
The "Managing Waste in the
Wide Open Spaces" conference, slated for June 12-15 at the Hotel Albuquerque at
Old Town hotel, is fully underway in the planning process and we thank members
who have lent their support and time.
Register today to secure the
Early Bird Registration Discounts. Hotel deadline to guarantee room rate is also
May 1. Go to
www.recyclenewmexico.com/conference06.htm
Full
Agenda Announced!
You can now view the full conference agenda and
speaker sessions online at
www.recyclenewmexico.com/conference_agenda06.htm.
More than 60 speakers on a wide range of subjects will present over the 3-day
conference!
Session
Highlights:
Trash Economics 1:
Tuesday, June 13
Gary Liss, a 30-year waste
management and recycling pioneer who has consulted and worked across the West,
shares his thoughts on "Making Recycling Economics Work by Using Incentives and
Policies".
Joe Lewandowski, another
veteran consultant who has established several solid waste authorities around
New Mexico, talks about the "Economics of Recycling, Does it Pay to Divert?" and
will bring the economic equations of the pros and cons, and costs and benefits
of recycling.
Trash Economics 2:
Wednesday, June 14
Doug Drennen, with JRMA
Associates and who is currently consulting on the construction and fiscal
long-term livelihood of the Santa Fe MRF facility as well as the Caja del Rio
landfill, will discuss "Economic Modeling/Financial Planning for Operations and
Capital Investments".
Dennis Neufeldt with Haul-All
Equipment brings his extensive knowledge on setting up rural transfer stations
and the costs and benefits of building and maintaining these facilities in his
talk "Rural Transfer - Understanding Life Cycle Costing."
Public Relations and
Contracting for Managers: Thursday, June 15
Marlene Feuer (Waste
Management) and Kim McKibben (Bernalillo County Solid Waste Director) come
together to speak on "Public, Private Partnerships - Is It Right For Your Town?"
Libby Chaplin with Arcadian
Solutions brings her expertise as a mediator and solution finder, with her
presentation on "Engaging the Public in Solid Waste Solutions", providing
attendees tips on how to communicate with the public in an effective manner.
Senator Dede Feldman, New
Mexico legislator and recycling champion, will tell us how to "Get What you Need
from Your Legislators" as so many municipalities rely on public funds and
legislative initiatives to support their facilities and operations. Senator
Feldman will share some trade secrets on how to get the funding you need.
Other
Conference Highlights!
Native American Flair for Opening Reception and Welcome. The Apache
Crown Dancers from Arizona will grace the Garden Evening Reception on Monday,
July 12 with their beautiful costumes and traditional dance and music. On
Tuesday morning's welcome, Jim Littlesinger from Navajo Nation will start the
day with a blessing. Miss Navajo Nation, Rachelle James, will then share some
thoughts.
NM Environment
Department Cabinet Secretary Ron Curry and
Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez Kick-Off Conference on Tuesday
Morning as well. After the Navajo welcome, local leaders will give attendees
some words to start off the conference.
Take
Monday Off and Go Golfing! Enjoy the
best golf deal in town and enjoy the new Sandia Golf Club. Tee time is at 8 AM
and will take you through an 18-hole course into mid-afternoon. Transport to and
from the hotel is provided. Go to
www.nmswana.com
to register for this today!
Thursday Tours to Santa Fe and Albuquerque Facilities: Spend the day
on Thursday up in Santa Fe touring the Recycling Transfer Station and
under-construction Materials Recovery Facility (MRF). See how they handle their
year-round electronic waste collection and check out the construction and
equipment for the recycling processing facility. The tour will then turn to
cultural and will take you to downtown Santa Fe for lunch and afternoon free
time to enjoy the museums and shopping. The Albuquerque facility tour is
scheduled for Thursday afternoon and will take you to three of the city's
facilities: IPF (Intermediate Processing Facility for recycling), composting
facility and the landfill.
Recycling and Trash Converge: Two national leaders on their subject
matter will share the stage and discuss how to "Ramp Up Recycling Rates"! Kate
Krebs, executive director of the National Recycling Coalition and John Skinner,
director of the national Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) will
discus and debate how best to divert more material, run landfills and transfer
stations more efficiently, and to continue moving in the direction of valuing
waste as a resource. Skinner and Krebs do not often have the opportunity to
share a plenary session and share their views - so this will not be a talk to
miss! Wednesday, June 14, Lunch.
Thank
you to our conference sponsors thus far:
New Mexico Environment Department: Solid Waste
Bureau (co-host)
Roadrunner Chapter of SWANA (co-host)
Weyerhaeuser Recycling
Dex
Intel New Mexico
Waste Management New
Mexico
Waste Management Recycle America
Whole Foods
Gordon Environmental
New Mexico Clean and Beautiful
Earthstone International
New Mexico Department of Transportation
Cascade Engineering
Steel Recycling Institute
NM Building Branch, Associated General Contractors
Keep New Mexico Beautiful
Zia Engineering
Can Manufacturers Institute
Intera Incorporated
Hydro Geo Chem Inc
Los Alamos County Hits 47% Diversion
Rate By Recycling Concrete!
In Los Alamos County's recently published 2005
Recycling Report, developed by Regina Wheeler, Manager of the Los Alamos Solid
Waste Division, the recycling rate for 2005 saw an 11% recycling rate measured
by weight, without concrete recycling. With that weight added in, the tally came
to 47%! The concrete and asphalt brought to the landfill in segregated loads was
crushed and used as base course. It is noted that the past year saw an
extraordinary amount of concrete due to a major local reconstruction project.
The report includes analysis on the Volume and
Cost of Recycling by material.
Click here to see the report.
CELEBRATE EARTH DAY - New Mexico Events
Acoma Pueblo
April 21,
Earth Day Celebration with Greg Baker from NMED coming out to speak on
Composting, as well as other speakers on environmental topics
Albuquerque
**Enchantment Electronics is sponsoring an e-waste
recycling event at Sandia Computers, 3625 Wyoming Blvd. NE. We will be there on
Saturday, April 22nd from 9am to 1pm collecting electronics for free.
**This Thursday, April 20 from 5-6 pm in the SUB,
Fiesta Room A, the College Greens will be hosting the forum Earth Day 2006:
Perspectives on Environmentalism. Join us, with Eva Thaddeus of the Climate
Change Action Project and Sister Joan Brown of the Catholic Ecological Ministry,
for a forum exploring aspects of today's environmental issues and thought--from
the relations between spiritual and scientific experience, between global
warming and poverty, to ways we can take action and build a better future for
all life on Earth.
http://www.unm.edu/~greens/
**JaiTire Tire Recycling Facility Holds Open
House, Friday, April 21, 12-5 PM, 3417 Girard NE. More info at 505-830-2765.
Cannon Air Force Base
•Tree Planting,
April 5 and 12
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•Earth Day Recycling
Contest, April 3-14
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•5K Fun Run , April 19
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•Tree City USA Ceremony,
April 19
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•Children’s Story Time,
April 20
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•Environmental Awareness
Booths, April 20•
Corrales
May 10th Open House,
Corrales Recycling Center, 9 AM -12 PM Call 505-573-3646 to
attend. Located behind fire house.
Farmington
Farmington Clean and Beautiful has events on April 22-23 and 28.
April 22-23 Dumpster Weekend: Residents are allowed to
bring non hazardous household trash to Berg Park West and Fire
Station 5 for proper disposal or recycling. April 28 will be
Celebration Earth with kid’s recycling games and tree
plantings.
Los Alamos
**Cleanup Los Alamos Day on April 15 and Earth Day at Pajarito
Environmental Education Center on April 22.
Navajo Nation
Navajo Nation Annual Community Spring
Clean-up, April 20. All 110 chapters will be invited to participate.
Rio Rancho / Keep Rio
Rancho Beautiful
Community and Earth Festival, Saturday, May 6, 2006 from 10:00 a.m.
through 3:00 p.m., Loma Colorado Park located on Loma Colorado between
the High School and Blades., (Additional directions: Take 528 to
Northern Blvd., Northern Blvd. west to Loma Colorado, turn left onto
Loma Colorado and the new park is on the right hand side of the road)
Join Keep Rio Rancho Beautiful as we also celebrate mother earth. View
exhibits from many environmental agencies, take part in the hands-on
demonstrations and activities. Learn about native animals, water
conservation, waste reduction, composting and more! Visit the Bio Van,
try the climbing wall, pick up free tree seedlings and other goodies.
Sandia National Laboratories
Sandia
National Laboratories is celebrating Earth Day on April 20th this year. The
theme of our Earth Day is "Solutions to Climate Change". Dr. Mario Molina,
Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry (1995), will be our speaker. Dr. Mario
Molina was awarded the prize for his work in atmospheric chemistry,
particularly the formation and decomposition of the ozone layer. The
celebration will also include a variety of displays and booths (common to
the theme) from Sandia and the local community (i.e. PNM Sky Blue, CABQ Rail
Runner/Trans. Dept, Bicycle Commuting, DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement
Program (ARM), etc.).
Santo Domingo Pueblo
April 24th, Monday, Santo
Domingo Pueblo celebrates Earth Day at the school. Contact Lavern Garcia at
505-465-0055 for more info or to attend.
Santa Fe
**The annual
Household Hazardous Waste Drop-off Day will be held on Sunday, April 23rd
from 9 am to 4 pm at the Buckman Road Recycling and Transfer Station in Santa
Fe. The event is free for all residents of the city and county of Santa Fe.
Residents may dispose of toxics including poisons, solvents, paints, pesticides
and cleaners and electronic waste. There will also be a waste exchange where
safe and reusable products will be available for free.
**April 22, Eldorado Water Fair, at the Eldorado
Community Center
**April 22, EcoVersity Earth Day celebration
Silver City
The
Silver City Citizen’s Recycling Advisory Committee, with support from the
Southwest Solid Waste Authority, will have a table at Earth Day in Penny Park on
April 22. There will be several educational displays including
promotional/educational materials, an interactive recycling board for children,
examples of uses for recycled glass and paper for construction, and videos of
building a wall with recycled glass and a paper-crete home will be shown. Also,
a video produced by the Southwest Solid Waste Authority -- “Your landfill – not
just a dump” -- will also be available.
Taos
**Sustain Taos on APril 22 will be having
their annual event at Kit Carson park from 8 until 4. Music, food, fun and
earth happy stuff.
**ELECTRONICS-WASTE DRIVE, APRIL 22, 8am to 5pm,
TOWN OF TAOS RECYCLING CENTER, 210 Bertha Road,
bring your old computers,
monitors, printers, fax machines, copiers, scanners, plotters, phone systems,
UPS systems, cell phones vcr’s. Call 758-9679.
NEW TIRE
RECYCLING FACILITY IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS GRAND OPENING ON EARTH DAY
In conjunction with the 36th
annual earth day, JaiTire is having an open house to celebrate the opening of
its new tire recycling facility in Albuquerque. JaiTire takes old tires and
recycles them into various size crumb rubber particles which are used in a
variety of landscape materials and safety surfacing . JaiTire has been
recycling tires in Denver since 1993. When their business grew and required
larger equipment, they moved their existing equipment down to Albuquerque. The
new facility had a shredder, granulator, sizing, and fiber and metal removing
equipment.
The recycled tire pieces are
used in a variety of products - landscape mulch, playground cover, poured in
place surfacing, horse arena footing, grass topdressing, and infill for
artificial turf. The playground material which comes in black and 7 different
colors is perfect for schools or home playground equipment. The resilience from
the rubber makes it the safest playground surfacing available.
The landscape mulch is a
larger size rubber that comes in three colors. This very attractive mulch does
not decay or blow away, reduces water evaporation by up to 60%, maintains its
color for years, and does not attract insects. The horse arena footing reduces
the concussive shock to the horse and rider, retards the breakdown of the sand
into dust, and reduces maintenance. E. Gifford Stack, an Outreach Manager with
the New Mexico Environment Department, noted, “With the opening of this facility
we are pleased to see an exciting new approach to tire recycling in New Mexico.
Hopefully, this operation will help reduce the number of tires going to
landfills or illegally dumped in arroyos.” Open House at 3417 GIRARD NE,
ALBUQUERQUE, NM, April 21 12-5 PM.
Celebrate International Compost
Awareness Week, May 7-13
International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW) is a multi-media publicity and
education initiative to showcase compost production and demonstrate compost
use. For the past five years Compost Awareness Week has grown in both
strength and numbers through its sponsors and
compost advocates. Compost Awareness Week serves the important role of
bringing the Compost! message to the attention of the public, businesses and
other groups. Communities and government agencies, as well as members of the
composting and "green" industries, utilize the week to promote their
specific Compost! messages and programs.
Be
a part of the largest environmental education event for composting. The U.S.
Composting Council officially invites you to join in celebrating
International Compost Awareness Week. Across the United States, Canada
and the UK, composting advocates will be encouraging everyone to Compost!
This year’s national poster theme, “The Possibilities Are Endless –
Compost!” is a great way to get the message out. All types of composting and
compost use projects, from “do it yourself” composting in your backyard to
large-scale, community-wide projects are promoted during this week.
To find out what’s
going on in your area - visit
www.compostingcouncil.org
for a list of activities along with proclamations, press releases for
states, counties and cities, and public service announcements for the
weeklong event.
To view this year's National Poster, go to
http://www.compostingcouncil.org/section.cfm?id=57
To order copies of this year's
poster, contact the USCC at 631-737-4931 or
uscc@compostingcouncil.org
Compost Awareness Week is a fun and
educational week of events that offers an opportunity to learn more about
the many benefits of composting and compost use.
What’s Up for ICAW 2006:
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National Poster
Campaign
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Compost and Community Water Festivals
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Book Signings and Compost Discussions
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State Compost Awareness Week proclamations
for states including Washington and Oregon
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Promotions with local dealers and
landscape supply stores with Buy One – Get One Free
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Sponsorships of TV & radio talk shows
involving compost
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Talks/informal lectures by well-known
gardening experts
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Backyard composting bin promotions
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Compost Give Away Day
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Urban gardening programs
NMRC Board Meetings
The next two board meetings
are open to all NMRC Members. To attend, please RSVP to English Bird at
english@recyclenewmexico.com
1) Friday, May 19, 1-5 PM, Albuquerque, Hotel
Albuquerque at Old Town
2) Friday, July 21, 12-4 PM, Ruidoso, Location TBA
Grants
Community Grant
The Laura Jane Musser Fund
proposes to assist public or not-for-profit entities to
initiate or implement projects in rural areas to undertake
consensus-based activities in environmental stewardship or
dispute resolution. This grant focuses on collaborative or
consensus - based environmental management, particularly
that which integrates ecological and economic goals.
LINK:
http://www.musserfund.org/environmental.htm
Rural Development Energy
Grants and Loans
Johanns Announces
Loan Guarantees and Grants for Renewable Energy and Energy
Efficiency Projects. Last week Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced the availability of $176.5 million in loan
guarantees and almost $11.4 million in grants to support
investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency
improvements by agricultural producers and small businesses.
The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency loan and grant
program was in the 2002 Farm Bill to encourage agricultural
producers and small rural businesses to create renewable and
energy efficient systems. A total of
435 grants totaling $66.7 million have been awarded in 36
states since the program began and in 2005, for the first
time, renewable energy loan guarantees were made under the
program. Grants have been awarded to fund a wide range of
wind, solar, biomass, geothermal and conservation
technologies.
Further information is also available on the web at
http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/farmbill/index.html
Applications for grants must be completed and submitted to
the appropriate USDA Rural
Development state office
postmarked no later than May 12, 2006.
Jobs
New Mexico Environment
Department: Solid Waste Bureau
The New Mexico
Environment Department's Solid Waste Bureau has an opening
in the Outreach section for an
energetic/creative Specialist in Santa Fe.
Responsibilities include preparation of an annual report on
solid waste generation; management of the Bureau’s Household
Hazardous Waste and e-waste programs; writing and designing
information pieces on effective solid waste management
practices; providing technical assistance to various
publics; and management of the recycling grant program. A
description of the education/experience requirements, salary
range, and application procedures may be found at:
http://www.nmenv.state.nm.us/NMED/jobs/index.html.
The job is open until May 15, 2006. This is a rare
opportunity to work and live in the Land of Enchantment.
Recycling Tidbits
Recycled-content
Paint?
Link to an invitation
for comments on a proposed new Green Seal environmental
standard for recycled-content latex paint (forwarded by
Erin Linsky):
http://www.greenseal.org/draftdocs.htm
The deadline for comments is May 31, 2006.
Link to a press release
about this project from the Product Stewardship
Institute, Green Seal and the National Paint and
Coatings Association:
http://www.productstewardship.us/supportingdocs/Recycled_Paint_Standard_Release2_FINAL_4-17-06.doc
(You may be asked to open Microsoft Word to view this
web page.)
Cell Phone Companies Not Recycling
The cell phone
Recycling Report Card at
www.earthworksaction.org found that over 98
percent of retired cell phones are not recycled.
Hope online to submit comments to major cell
phone manufacturers!
AUTOS ARE MOST
RECYCLED CONSUMER PRODUCT
According to the Alliance of Automobile
Manufacturers, automobiles are the most recycled
consumer products in the world today. Each year, 95
percent of retired autos are processed for recycling.
Everything from floor mats and instrument panels to
upholstery, aluminum and steel can be recycled for use
in a new automobile or another consumer product.
Nationwide, about 26 automobiles are recycled every
minute, and at least 84 percent of a car's material
content is recycled.
More information:
www.autoalliance.org.
Calendar
**May 20, NMRC Board Meeting,
Albuquerque, Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town. 1-5 PM. All members welcome.
RSVP to English Bird
**June
12-15, 2006
"Managing Waste in
the Wide Open Spaces"; NM Recycling Conference and Arid
Climate Landfill Symposium joint conference, Hotel
Albuquerque at Old Town, Albuquerque
**October
22-25, NRC Congress, Atlanta
If you have questions about any of the
above information or have articles for future Recycling
Scraps, please e-mail or call me.
English Bird
Executive
Director
New Mexico Recycling Coalition
PO Box 24364, Santa Fe, NM 87502
english@recyclenewmexico.com
(505)
983-4470
Fax (505)
466-6266
