NMRC Board Election
Call Out Will Come Out in August
If you have been wanting to
get more involved in the New Mexico recycling movement, now is your chance. We
will be sending a direct e-mail in August inviting folks to be nominated for the
NMRC board.
Conference
Snapshots
Top photo: Pat DeRueda,
director of Waste Management Recycle America (the largest recycling handler in
the U.S.) and Kate Krebs, director of the National Recycling Coalition. Bottom
Photo: Frank Sanchez (center) and colleagues at the Durango McKinley Paper
Company Exhibit Booth. Photos courtesy of Terry and Margo Maher.
Waste Screening
Class
A new
class has been developed by the Roadrunner Chapter of SWANA (Solid Waste
Association of North America) to help facilities train their staff in meeting
NMED regulation requirements for the screening of waste at transfer stations and
landfills. The first two of these classes, scheduled in Albuquerque and Santa
Fe, filled up within days of their announcement. There is still room in the
October 25 class, scheduled for Roswell with 20 seats available. This is a
hands-on training class, so be prepared to bring appropriate PPE.
Click here for the registration form.
Recycling and
Illegal Dumping Rules Update
The RAID Act and the proposed RAID Rules include the following items:
- A tire manifest system
that requires signatures of tire generators, haulers, and the final
destination.
- Criminal penalties for
violations of the RAID Act.
- Need for a permit if 100
or more tires are stored at a location at any one time.
- Tire recycling
facilities that store 10,000 or more scrap tires at any one time or
processes 200,000 or more scrap tires per year will be required to have
financial assurance and file public notice.
- Tire bale projects will
be required to be permitted. Tire bale projects that are greater than two
bales high will be required to have plans stamped by a Professional
Engineer.
The revised timeline includes the following dates:
July 21
Final deadline for written comments
August 21 File request for hearing with
Environmental Improvement
Board
(EIB)
September 5 EIB meeting that will respond to
request for hearing
September 15 Publish notice of EIB hearing in
newspaper and NM Register
December 5 EIB hearing on RAID rules
Contact Toni Duggan at the New Mexico Environment Department: Solid Waste Bureau
at 505-827-0559 or
toni.duggan@state.nm.us
to arrange a meeting, provide comments, or ask questions. The RAID Rules and
pertinent information about them are available at
http://www.nmenv.state.nm.us/swb/draftregs.htm.
November's
Recycling Awareness Month - Sign Up Today
Although invites are usually
sent out in August/September, the online registration page for State and School
Coordinators is up and running.
For those who have not
participated before in NMRAM, we offer give-aways and informational support for
events you may plan around November 15, America Recycles Day. Many coordinators
sign up and save their materials for Earth Day activities as well. This year's
give-aways include "Recycle New Mexico" recycled-content T-shirts, posters and
recycled-content rulers (care of Dex). We have our initial sponsors on board:
Weyerhaeuser, Dex, Intel, Keep New Mexico Beautiful and this event is always
held in partnership with the New Mexico Environment Department: Solid Waste
Bureau. We are also pleased to be able to offer the school Recycling Bin Contest
again this year as well.
Sign up today at
www.recyclenewmexico.com/NMRAM_06.htm
Also, the
electronic pledge form is up and working on the national website. And, the
press release and photos from the recent awarding of the America Recycles
2005 National Prize have been posted.
www.americarecyclesday.org
Dex Phone Recycling
Schedule
Dex hosts a website that
lists phone book collection time periods and locations around the state.
Click here to see when your area is
scheduled for phone book recycling.
The New Mexico Recycling
Coalition has entered into a trade agreement with Dex, which includes
advertising in all New Mexico Qwest yellow pages, with an ad under Recycling
Services as well as Internet Priority placement advertising online. In trade we
are pleased to have Dex as a Platinum sponsor of the recent "Managing Waste in
the Wide Open Spaces" conference, as well as a $5,000 sponsor level for New
Mexico Recycling Awareness Month.
Waste
Management Supports Nationwide Effort To Think Green And Keep America Beautiful
In an effort to create cleaner, greener
communities, Waste Management, Inc. has embarked on a new program with Keep
America Beautiful, Inc., designed to improve the environment through
sustainable, local solutions.
The 2006 program involves 35 grants to organizations within Keep America
Beautiful’s national Network for a wide variety of stewardship, community
outreach and educational projects.
“Helping America think green and clean is our business. Waste Management
collects, recycles or disposes of thousands of tons of America’s trash each day
– and we want to do more,” said Everett Bass, vice president of community
relations and public sector services. “Waste Management wants to challenge
communities to Think Green, to accept responsibility toward our environment, and
to find local solutions to keeping America beautiful.”
The wide range of programs reflect the diverse interests and needs of the
communities involved, and include programs that tackle electronics recycling,
provide hands-on environmental education, support public outreach through the
media, conduct tree plantings and beautification efforts, and develop recycling
events. Support of these initiatives marks Waste Management’s continuing
commitment to local community quality of life and to also building awareness
about important resources, like landfills, for safe and effective waste
management, how waste can become an alternative energy source and recycling.
Waste Management also partners with Keep America Beautiful as a National
Sponsor for Keep America Beautiful’s Great American Cleanup.
“Waste Management believes that recycling and green energy alternatives make
a positive impact on communities across America,” Bass said. “Every time we
recycle or use landfill gas to create clean energy, we not only help the planet,
we also conserve considerable amounts of energy and natural resources.” For
example, the company’s almost 100 renewable energy projects produce enough
electricity to power more than 800,000 homes and save the equivalent of 8.2
million barrels of oil per year.
Waste Management, combined with its wholly owned subsidiary Recycle America,
is North America’s largest recycler, handling 5.8 million tons of commodities
each year, and saving more than 70 million trees and enough energy to power 1.6
million households.
HP Expands Global
Recycling Program
Hewlett-Packard is expanding its product return and recycling program to reach
more customers and create new ways for people to discard used or unwanted
electronic equipment in a convenient and environmentally responsible manner, the
company has announced.
The company will host a series of product collection events in the United States
throughout the summer to raise awareness and increase the rate of electronics
recycling among consumers.
...During the local product collection events, customers can drop off a broad
range of products from any manufacturer at no charge. All products collected
will be recycled at one of HP's approved recycling facilities across the United
States. These facilities operate under HP's global recycling standards, which
ensure responsible product recycling.
For full story, go to:
http://www.greenbiz.com/news/news_third.cfm?NewsID=32804
An event will be scheduled
in New Mexico in August. Please check HP site for more information.
More information:
www.hp.com/recycle.
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, July 21, 12-3 PM, Ruidoso, Brownbag,
Forest Service office (CANCELLED)
2) September 22, 12-4 PM, Santa Fe, Location TBA
Recycling Tidbits
Plastic Bag Creative Ideas:
Link
to a website that gives more than 90 alternative uses
for old plastic bags:
http://frugalliving.about.com/cs/tips/a/blplasticbag.htm
Trash Bag Wealth:
Quote from a February 2003 article by Polly LaBarre in
Fast Company magazine, "How To Lead a Rich Life":
"One
of the more shocking measures of our 'prosperity' is the
fact that the United States spends more on trash bags
than 90 other countries spend on everything. In other
words, the receptacles of our waste cost more than all
of the goods consumed by nearly half of the world's
nations."
Environmental Teens
Link
to the website for Generation Earth, an environmental
education program aimed at high school students,
sponsored by the Los Angeles County Department of Public
Works (forwarded by Carl Hursh):
http://www.generationearth.com
DELL
ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR FREE WORLDWIDE RECYCLING
Dell Inc. has unveiled plans to recycle all of its
consumer products anywhere in the world free of charge.
The new global recycling policy will provide consumers
with free recycling of any Dell-branded product,
regardless of whether the consumer purchases a new Dell
product. The company will initiate the service in the
United States by September and globally by November. The
program is already available in Europe.
SEN. JEFFORDS INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO BOOST
RECYCLING TAX CREDITS
Senator Jim
Jeffords (I-Vt.) and Senator Tom Carper (D-De.)
have formally introduced the Recycling
Investment Saves Energy (RISE) Act of 2006, a
bill intended to promote advances in recycling
rates and technologies through various tax
incentives. Among the incentives is a 15 percent
tax credit or a 50 percent depreciation
deduction for the purchase of recycling
machinery, and allow recycling facilities to be
eligible for tax-exempt bond financing. The
legislation is supported by a broad coalition of
industry, governmental, and environmental
organizations.<Read
More>
CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR UNVEILS BIOENERGY ACTION
PLAN
California
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger introduced a
Bioenergy Action Plan, which he hopes will
encourage the development of alternative energy
fuel and generation while reducing the state's
dependency on imported fossil fuels. The
Governor views the state as a largely untapped
goldmine of biomass resources found in its
extensive agriculture, forestry and urban
wastes. Biofuels, such as ethanol, can be
developed from a variety of sources including
specially grown crops, or from agricultural,
animal, and municipal solid wastes. According to
the executive order, California will produce a
minimum of 20% of its own biofuels by 2010 and
40% by 2020.<Read
More>
Jobs
San Francisco Department of
the Environment Job Announcements - Information at
www.sfenvironment.com
- Applications due 8/10/2006
1) 5642 Senior Environmental Specialist - Salary $73,138 -
$88,868 Annual
Develop outreach campaigns and assist program manager in
coordinating the overall public outreach program, including
managing campaigns, supervising staff, designing annual
plans, managing grants, responding to public inquiries,
developing public outreach activities, and evaluating
current
projects. Develop and maintains environmental displays and
outreach program for EcoCenter, the environmental education
facility for the Department of the Environment; coordinates
with City departments and regional environmental groups;
assists funding activities for EcoCenter-related activities.
Develop, coordinate, implement, analyze and evaluate source
reduction, reuse, recycling and composting outreach and
behavior change programs.
2) 5640 Environmental Specialist - Salary: $62,8682 -
$76,440 Annual
Coordinates and implements environmental behavior change and
education
programs focusing primarily on recycling. This position will
focus on a
range of waste reduction programs, including waste
prevention, recycling,
composting, and reuse, and secondarily on other department
program areas.
In carrying out these duties, the position coordinates and
implements
recycling outreach campaigns, including preparing and
disseminating
environmental data, information and materials to business,
the public and
City agencies, proportionate to the needs of the program.
The position
coordinates and designs environmental grassroots and social
marketing
outreach projects and youth leadership programs; supervises
and train
trainees, grassroots volunteers and interns to conduct
presentations on a
wide array of environmental issues; provides technical
assistance to
neighborhoods setting up recycling and other environmental
programs;
creates and maintains program partnerships with government
agencies and
private commercial enterprises.
David Assmann, Deputy Director
San Francisco Department of the Environment
11 Grove Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 (415) 355-3702
Calendar
**August 11, Recycling
Alliance meeting. 9AM-Noon, Albuquerque. Topic will be
legislative opportunities for Recycling and Illegal Dumping.
RSVP to Gretchen Brewer at NMED at
gretchen.brewer@state.nm.us
**September 8, Recycling
Alliance meeting. 9AM-Noon, Albuquerque. RSVP to
Gretchen Brewer at NMED at
gretchen.brewer@state.nm.us
**September 22, NMRC Board Meeting,
Santa Fe. 12-4 PM. All members welcome.
RSVP to English Bird
**October
22-25, NRC Congress, Atlanta
**Dec 8-9, NMRC Board Retreat
at Sevilleta
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
