United States
                                Environmental Protection
                                Agency
                      Solid Waste and
                      Emergency Response
                      (5305)
                     EPA530-N-94-003
                     Spring 1934
  &EFA           REUSABLE
                                NEWS
  Managing
  "Disaster Debris'
  Turning Wreckage
  into a Resource
    .st-rp^a-.
        atural disasters can pro-
        duce immense quantities
       I of municipal solid waste.
       aste is often hastily burned
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        led so that
       rebuilt with all possible
     Id. Butln ttiie wake of recent
   tural disasters, such as the earth-
   ake in Los Angeles, floods in the
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     i/est, and hurricanes m Hawaii
   d Florida, waste managers and
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   jcal officials have round better
  A/ays to manage disaster debris. By
  adhering to preferred waste .man-™'
   gement techniques such as waste
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   revehtion and recycling, even dur-
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ginlijdisaster cleanup, communities
pcajfj saye years*of landfill capacity!"
   ftlWamoMnt of hazardous ma^eri-j
 ||lsejnter|ng the waste stream.
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   IN THIS ISSUE
 Managing Disaster Debris • Jobs Through
 Recycling • Landfill Permitting Programs
 • Market for OCC « WasteWi$e Update
 • Painting Recycled • Media Buying-
 Recycled Campaign • NYC Prevents Waste
 0 Waste-Less in Seattle • Degradable
 Ring Rule • New OSW Director
Jobs Through Recycling


Linking Economic and Environmental Priorities

    EPA has launched a comprehensive program to support increased growth
    of the recycling industry. The Jobs Through Recycling Initiative is a $2.7
    million grant program aimed at increasing the use of collected materials
by creating markets for those materials, stimulating economic development,
and fostering the creation of new jobs in recycling industries. The initiative
will create two business recycling assistance programs and a recycling
technology information network.
  The fobs Through Recycling Initiative increases the capacity of selected
state and tribal governments to provide technical and business assistance to
recycling enterprises. EPA will fund selected states and tribes to establish
four Recycling and Reuse Business Assistance Centers (RBACs) and 10
Recycling Economic Development Advocate (REDA) positions.

  State or tribal RBACs will provide technical, business, financing, and
marketing assistance  to existing and new recycling enterprises, such as
materials processors and recycled product manufacturers. Each RBAC •will
focus the efforts  of all
state or tribal agencies re-
sponsible for economic
development, solid waste
management,  and em-
ployment to ensure that
assistance and resources
are  applied to  recycling
business development. For
example, a RBAC  could
help a fledgling processing
facility design a feasibility
study, research the best
available technology,  ob-
tain financing, or market its
commodity to end users.

  Through the second
component  of the Jobs
Through Recycling Initia-
tive, EPA will fund  the
economic development
agencies of selected states
and tribes to hire REDAs.
Using the resources and

     (Continued on page 12)
 The Social and Economic
 Benefits of Recycling
   In  addition to reducing the amount of
   waste requiring disposal, our nation's ex-
   panding  recycling programs create new
 business opportunities for collecting, proc-
 essing, and using  recyclables in  the
 manufacture of products. Growth in the re-
 cycling industry also  creates new  job
 opportunities, ranging from low- and semi-
 skilled jobs in  material sorting and
 processing to highly skilled jobs in the manu-
 facturing sector and related fields. Building
~new  processing and manufacturing  plants
 creates jobs for construction workers, equip-
 ment suppliers, transportation companies,
'planners, and consultants. In urban areas,
 where large quantities of recyclables are gen-
 erated, cities can supply both materials and
 labor to new recycling facilities, thereby ad-
 dressing unemployment  and solid  waste
 problems simultaneously.
                           Reusable News is printed with soy/canola ink on paper that contains at least 50 percent recycled fiber.

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 Managing
 "Disaster
 Debris"
 Turning
 Wreckage
 into  a
 Resource
 (Continued from page 1)
 L.A. Rocks, Rolls,

 Reduces, and Recycles

           When an earthquake shook Los Angeles
           in January, the city already had a
           successful disaster debris cleanup
           under its belt. In 1992, the city recy-
 cled 80 percent of the construction and demolition
 (C&D) debris from buildings that had to be torn
 doxvn after the L.A. civil disturbances. Relying on
 this experience and a strong waste management in-
 frastructure, L.A. is currently recycling and
 reducing earthquake rubble in three major ways:
 • Information dissemination. Only two days af-
  ter the quake, the city made certain that the
  over 2,700 private contractors expected to help
  in cleanup efforts had the information they
  needed to access C&D recyclers. In addition,
  L.A. instructed its own haulers on how to de-
  liver sorted earthquake C&D materials to recy-
  clers whenever possible.
 • Materials recovery. L.A. requires residents to
  separate and sort their earthquake debris for recy-
  cling collection. But not every citizen has been
  able to sort while cleaning up, and some unsorted
  recydables are therefore ending up in landfills.
  For this reason, one L.A. neighborhood is collect-
  ing unsorted debris and then relying on a special-
  ized materials recovery facility to perform the
  necessary separation. This effort is proving to be
  both efficient and cost-effective .
• Materials exchange. The city of L.A. hired com-
  munity groups to sort, clean, and stack bricks
  that otherwise might not have been recovered.
  The organizations receive a small fee from the
  city, as well as the chance to use the bricks in
  their own projects.
Illinois Processes  Floods

of Waste

        early a year after floods washed  *
        through their communities, residents
        of western Illinois are still clearing de-
        bris from their properties. To help
insure the proper management of this waste, the
Illinois EPA and the Illinois Department of Trans-
portation set up 10 flood waste processing
centers. At the centers, residents  separate items
containing potentially hazardous components
(including large appliances or "white goods," bat-
teries, and paint cans) from brush, household
goods, and other materials. Michael Nechvatal
of the Illinois EPA points out that this degree of
resident cooperation is remarkable: "It's pretty
hard to sort your garbage when you're still trying
to sort out your life." The materials collected at
the centers are either recycled or  disposed of in a
hazardous waste facility. As of January 1994,
approximately 900 tons of white goods and the
equivalent of 220 fifty-five gallon oil drums of
hazardous waste have been diverted from mu-
nicipal landfills. A large shredder reduces the
volume of the remaining debris before it is dis-
posed of in landfills.

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                       Hurricane Andrew left
                       Dade County, Florida; with
                       70 years' worth of waste.
Hurricane Produces a

Whirlwind of Recyclables
        fter Hurricane Iniki ripped across the
        Hawaiian island of Kauai, residents em-
        barked on an ambitious program to
       ^recycle 55 percent of the storm's de-
bris. Their success at recovering resources from
the hurricane has been called a "national model"
for emergency cleanups. Kauai's efforts started
with an aggressive program to collect separated
hurricane debris at receiving sites and at curb-
side. Government agencies and local contractors
then sorted and recycled the debris. They sent
4,000 tons of scrap metal from roofs and appli-
ances to Asian markets and composted over
60,000  tons of green waste (trees, shrubs, and
leaves). Dale Burton, solid waste coordinator for
Kauai, calls these recycling arrangements "triple
wins" because they benefit municipal waste man-
agement efforts, private recycling contractors,
and recovered materials markets.  The island
also plans to process 225,000 tons of C&D debris
into "biofuel," some of which will be used to
power boilers of a sugar processing plant.
    Recycling Programs Meet

    Andrew's Challenge

            urricane Andrew, which hit Florida's
            Dade County in August 1992, gives
            some idea of the enormous solid waste
            management challenges that natural
    disasters can create. More than six million tons
    of "hurricane debris" were collected in Dade
    County—equal to the amount of municipal solid
    waste that the county would collect over a
    10-year span. To manage all this material, county
    officials tapped into existing recycling and com-
    posting programs. The County mulched over
    500,000 tons of wood waste. Local farmers and
    residents are using the mulch to replace topsoil
    stripped away by hurricane winds and to land-
    scape homes and parks throughout the
    storm-damaged community. The County also
    separated and recycled metals, white goods, and
    construction and demolition materials, and initi-
    ated quick-response recycling programs for
    specific materials generated after the storm.
    Because battery usage increased dramatically
    when homes lost power, the County expanded
    its household battery collection program. And
    because the community had to rely on bottled
    water after the storm, officials  collected for
    recycling more than 17 tons of plastic water jugs
    at emergency distribution centers. U
Kauai has been called
a "national model" for
its success at recover-
ing resources after
Hurricane Iniki.

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EPA Speeds
Approvals  of
Landfill
Permitting
Programs
    State, territory, and tribal offi-
    cials are diligently  working
    with EPA to gain speedy ap-
provals of their permit programs for
municipal solid waste (MSW) land-
fills. According to Henry Ferland of
EPA, "the numbers speak for them-
selves." Thirty-three states have
already received final approvals,
and EPA is  currently making its
final determination on applications
from six additional states and terri-
tories. Two Native American tribes
have submitted final applications to
date, and one of these applications
received  proposed approval. EPA
anticipates that 18 additional tribes
might apply.
  EPA's regional offices approve
landfill permit programs after deter-
mining that  they are adequate to
ensure facility compliance with the
1991 federal  MSW landfill criteria.
The high  level of interaction among
staff in EPAheadquarters, EPAregional
offices, and the states throughout the
approval process demonstrates a
firm  commitment to  ensuring that
the nation's landfills comply with
the federal criteria.

  Key to the success of the approval
process has been the  workings of a
regional-headquarters team. The
team coordinated EPA's efforts in de-
veloping a process that  would  be
both  consistent and flexible. State
officials appreciate the  program's
flexibility, which allows them to im-
plement the new regulations with
minimum disruption to existing
programs. A pilot program that ran
in California, Connecticut, Virginia,
and Wisconsin also contributed to
the success. These states pioneered
the process, easing implementation
for the rest of the nation.

   EPA's draft State/Tribal Imple-
mentation Rule (STIR) is being used
to guide states and tribes as they
prepare landfill permit program ap-
plications. It describes the elements
of an adequate permit program and
the procedures EPA uses in review-
ing applications. In this way, states
and tribes understand upfront what
their applications need to address. The
STIR, which also addresses program
revision procedures, will be proposed
this summer when an opportunity for
public comment will be provided.

  For more information, contact Henry
Ferland of EPA at 202 260-3384.1
 Approval Status of Landfill Permitting Programs
                                        Approved Programs (33)
                                        Proposed Approval Published in Federal Register (7)*
                                        Applications Received (13)
                                                      PUERTO
                                                      RICO
Current as of May 4, 1994
                                  : Includes the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe

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Southwest
Cities  Secure
Market for  OCC
    The Southwest Public Recycling Association (SPRA)
    and McKinley Paper Co. have signed a five-year
    cooperative marketing agreement for old corrugated
containers (OCC), commonly referred to as "cardboard."
Under the agreement, recycling programs throughout
the Southwest can sell the OCC they collect to McKinley.
The paper company will use the OCC as a raw material
in manufacturing linerboard at its new  mill in New
Mexico. (Linerboard forms the inner and outer walls of
a corrugated box.)  Gary Olson, executive director of
SPRA, describes the part his organization will play in the
agreement as "making the people who are already gen-
erating cardboard aware of a great market opportunity,
while at the same time encouraging those in the process
of starting recycling by letting them know there is such
a strong market for the cardboard generated."
  SPRA is a nonprofit organization comprising  cities,
counties, Native American  tribes, businesses, govern-
ment agencies, public institutions, and  other
organizations. By working together and providing recy-
cling companies with a large, steady supply of materials,
these groups are able to create stable markets for their
recyclables. The  Southwest particularly benefits from
this type of group  effort since the large distances be-
tween cities can  drive up transportation costs.  SPRA
members can coordinate transportation and divide the
costs, saving money in much the same way carpooling
saves individuals money.
  The agreement with McKinley Paper really demon-
strates that SPRA is helping its members. In fact,
McKinley Vice President Jeff Murphy credits the exist-
ence of SPRA as  one of  ,   	   -•- •--—   -  ^
the principal reasons the
company located in the
heart of the Southwest.

  SPRA's  cardboard
agreement is one  of sev-
eral contracts SPRA has
negotiated with the pri-
vate sector. Steel  cans
and glass bottles and jars
are also sold through co-
operative  marketing
agreements.

  For more information,
contact Gary Olson of
SPRA at 602 791-4069.1
WASTE
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                        E!
                          'PA's  WasteWise  pro-
                           gram  is   up  and
                          irunning. Thanks to an
                       enthusiastic response from
                       a diverse  range of compa-
                       nies, WasteWise has already
                       grown to  nearly 150 mem-
                       bers, including companies
                       in consumer products,
                       electronics,  textiles, trans-
                       portation,  banking  and
   lciTutnities7and retailing. Through this partnership
 rog*faim, leading businesses are committing to imple-
     ,three, significant waste prevention activities,
  Siftc! or improve programs to collect recyclables, and
     seT purchasing of recycled products. Participating
 RlfiufaqlujrJJrs can also choose to use increased
|tfjA|!hi£ptpostconsumer materials in  their products.
      supporting" these efforts by providing technical
  fjstancelmd recognition of WasteWi$e members and
 jejr,si|££essful programs. Reusable News will use this
^fjtfrjnjtp publicize WasteWise participants' accomplish-
*"'    and to answer frequently asked questions about
 iie~procjram. To join WasteW!$e or to obtain detailed
      ation, call 800 EPAWISE (800 372-9473).
     i.,^,., *T t"""          ""
 /asteWi$e Questions & Answers
 ^*2S?5*   "•       -
 Ijjestton:" What types of waste are included under the
   ye "of theWasteWi$e program?
 |5svvertlVasteWi$e includes actions to  reduce munid-
   solid waste. Generally, that means materials that
     [otherwise end upTin a company's trash dumpster
 hits customers' dumpster. The program  does not
  rreatly^pver actions to reduce industrial, liquid, or
         jvaste, nor does it incfude internal recycling
  .materials within a manufacturing process.
 ^uiesjignjjIW]/ company has a great  waste reduction
    "Hfii*. We recycle everything we can and are start-
"iftgJo buy~recycled products. What else can we do?
  i|w,e^^orfectirig"recyclafales is an important way to
                 thrown  out. Buying products with
  icycIecFcontent ensures that the recyclables that we
  illectLget used again. More and more companies are
  ithluirasjicalTy collecting recyclables and buying recy-
Hgd-content products. But, while these activities are
     important, they do not prevent waste from being
        in the  first  place. An important focus of
 rajsteWiseJs cutting waste at the source. This can be
jaoSSffipHshed through  many actions, including purchas-
  ..._fT««rr^Ti,rr -n  reusa|3ie containers, redesigning
 Jroduct£ or packages to use  less material, reducing
fpaper use through electronic communication,  copying
        Asides of  a page,  and using two-way billing
   -fqpes. Don't miss  out on these kinds of untapped
   jbrturTities! Such actions can often help your com-
                                               I
       hieveTilgcost savings by reducing purchasing
    dis.posai costs.]

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 Federal


 Agencies


 Can  Paint


 the Town


 Recycled

    For the first time, recycled-content
    latex paint is available for use on
    government buildings, thanks to
 a unique cooperative effort initiated
 by the U.S. General Services Admini-
 stration's (GSAs) Federal  Supply
 Service (FSS) in San  Francisco. A
 partnership  among  FSS, Marin
 County, California, the State of Cali-
 fornia, and Major Paint Company of
 Tbrrance, California (a  subsidiary of
 Standard Brands Paints), resulted in
 the development of this new latex
 paint.
  The product contains an average
 of 12-percent postconsumer paint
 derived primarily from  leftover
 paint that has been collected from
 homeowners  through county-run
 household hazardous waste pro-
 grams. It also contains paint from
 some California retailers who are
 collecting leftover paint brought in
 by their customers. Not only is the
 paint made with recycled content,
 but it also has received
 excellent performance
 ratings based on  GSA
 laboratory tests. Addi-
 tionally, the paint  is
 priced at approximately
 half the cost of its virgin
 counterpart.

  In the past, recovered mmm"^^—
 paint was usually mixed
 to produce a brown or grey color that
had limited uses. This new line of
recycled paint is one of the first to
be made in several distinct colors
 that are  consistent from batch to
 The paint is
   priced at
approximately
half the cost of
   its virgin
 counterpart.
 batch. Color consistency, which pre-
 viously had been difficult to achieve
 with postconsumer recovered mate-
 rials, is made possible by separating
 ^^^  collected used paint into light
      and dark colors. While not
      available in every possible
      color, users find that a small
      compromise on matching ex-
      isting paint is more than
      offset by substantial cost sav-
      ings and  the  positive
__^_  environmental benefits of us-
      ing this product.

   The U.S. Navy and Air Force,
 agencies of the Department of the
 Interior, the U.S. Forest Service, and
 several embassies  overseas are suc-
 cessfully using recycled latex paint.
GSA is encouraging federal agen-
cies worldwide to specify its use
in building maintenance con-
tracts or to supply the paint
directly  to contractors. GSA be-
lieves that  more agencies will
switch to it once the word reaches
facilities managers, maintenance
personnel, and contractors. To as-
sist in the procurement and use of
this item, GSA has recently estab-
lished a  federal specification for
recycled latex paint and is work-
ing to expand its sources for this
new recycled product.

  For more information on GSAs re-
cycled latex paint, contact Barbara
K. Wilson of GSA at 415 744-5399.1
  Remember: If you are not buying recycled, you are not recycling!

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530-S-92-019


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530-F-94-009


530-F-92-024
530-C-93-001a
530-C-93-001b
530/SW-89-051a


530-K-93-002

530/SW-90-019

530/SW-90-020

530/SW-89-019

530-K-92-002


530-R-92-015
Characterization of Municipal Solid
Waste in the United States:  1992
Update; Executive Summary
Decision-Makers Guide to Solid Waste
Management
Environmental Fact Sheet: EPA Sets
Degradability Standards for Plastic Ring
Carriers
Green Advertising Claims (Brochure)
MSW Factbook (3-1/2" diskette)
MSW Factbook (5-3/4" diskette)
Report to Congress: Methods to Manage
and Control Plastic Wastes; Executive
Summary
Reporting on Municipal Solid Waste: A
Local Issue
Sites for Our Solid Waste: A Guidebook
for Public Involvement
Siting Our Solid Waste: Making Public
Involvement Work (Brochure)
Solid Waste Dilemma: An Agenda for
Action
Solid Waste Resource Guide for Native
Americans: Where to Find Funding and
Technical Assistance
Waste Prevention, Recycling, and
Composting Options: Lessons from 30
Communities
 530-K-92-003


 530-K-92-004


 530/SW-89-015C




 530-S-92-013




 530-F-92-016



 530-F-92-012

 530-R-94-004
The Consumer's Handbook for Reducing
Solid Waste
A Business Guide for Reducing Solid
Waste
Characterization of Products Containing
Lead and Cadmium in Municipal Solid
Waste in the United States, 1970 to
2000; Executive Summary
Characterization of Products Containing
Mercury in Municipal Solid Waste in
the United States, 1970 to 2000;
Executive Summary
Environmental Fact Sheet: Municipal
Solid Waste Prevention in Federal
Agencies
Environmental Fact Sheet: Recycling
Grass Clippings
Pay as You Throw:  Lessons Learned
About Unit Pricing
530/SW-91-005

530/SW-90-084a


530-F-93-008

530-K-92-005

530-F-93-018

530-F-94-006

530-F-94-003
530-F-94-002
Unit Pricing: Providing an Incentive to
Reduce Waste (Brochure)
Variable Rates in Solid Waste:
Handbook for Solid Waste Officials;
Executive Summary
Waste Prevention:  It Makes Good
Business Sense (Brochure)
Waste Prevention Pays Off:  Companies
Cut Waste in the Workplace
WasteWi$e: EPAs Voluntary Program for
Reducing Business Solid Waste
WasteWi$e Tip Sheet:  Facility Waste
Assessments
WasteWi$e Tip Sheet:  Waste Prevention
WasteWi$e Tip Sheet:  WasteWi$e
Program Road Map
530/SW-91-024



530/SW-91-009


530-F-92-014

530-F-94-007


530/SW-91-011


530-F-92-003

530-H-92-001

530/SW-90-082
530/SW-89-014

530-R-93-011

530/SW-90-073b
530/SW-90-072b


530/SW-90-071b
530/SW-90-074b

530-K-92-006


530-F-94-005


530-F-94-004
Environmental Fact Sheet: Recycling
Municipal Solid Waste:  Facts and
Figures
Environmental Fact Sheet: Yard Waste
Composting
Federal Recycling Program (Brochure)
How to Start or Expand a Recycling
Collection Program (Fact Sheet)
Procurement Guidelines for Government
Agencies
Recycle:  You Can Make a Ton of
Difference (Brochure)
Recycle:  You Can Make a Ton of
Difference (Poster)
Recycling in Federal Agencies (Brochure)
Recycling Works! State and Local
Success Stories
Report to Congress: A Study of the Use
of Recycled Paving Materials
Summary of Markets for Compost
Summary of Markets for Recovered
Aluminum
Summary of Markets for Recovered Glass
Summary of Markets for Scrap Tires
Used Dry Cell Batteries: Is a Collection
Program Right for Your Community?
WasteWi$e Tip Sheet: Buying or
Manufacturing Recycled Products
WasteWi$e Tip Sheet: Recycling
Collection
 530-R-92-026      Household Hazardous Waste
                 Management: A Manual for One-Day
                 Community Collection Programs
 530-F-92-031      Household Hazardous Waste:  Steps to
                 Safe Management (Brochure)

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 530/SW-90-029b
 Characterization of Municipal Waste
 Combustion Ash, Ash Extracts, and
 Leachates; Executive Summary
 530/SW-91-089
 530-F-93-024
 530/SW-91-092
 530-2-93-012
 OSWFR91004
 Criteria for Solid Waste Disposal
 Facilities; A Guide for Owners/Operators
 Environmental Fact Sheet:  Some
 Deadlines in Federal Landfill
 Regulations Extended; Extra Time
 Provided to Landfills in Midwest Flood
 Regions
 Safer Disposal for Solid Waste; The
 Federal Regulation for Landfills
 Solid Waste Disposal Facility Criteria;
 Delay of Effective Date; Final Rule;
 October 1, 1993 (includes correction
 published October 14, 1993)
 Solid Waste Disposal Facility Criteria;
 Final Rule; October 9,1991
 530-F-94-008
 530/SW-89-Q39a

 530/SW-89-039d
530/SW-89-039b
Collecting Used Oil for Recycling/Reuse:
Tips for Consumers Who Change Then-
Own Motor Oil and Oil Filters
(Brochure)
How to Set Up a Local Program to
Recycle Used Oil
Recycling Used Oil: For Service Stations
and Other Vehicle-Service Faculties
(Brochure)
Recycling Used Oil: What Can You Do?
(Brochure)
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  Educational Maieri Ifc

530/SW-90-024


530/SW-90-005

530/SW-90-025

530/SW-90-010

530/SW-90-023
Adventures of the Garbage Gremlin:
Recycle and Combat a Life of Grime
(Comic Book)
Let's Reduce and Recycle: A
Curriculum for Solid Waste Awareness
Recycle Today: Educational Materials
for Grades K-12  (Brochure)
Ride the Wave of the Future:  Recycle
Today! (Poster)
School Recycling Programs: A
Handbook for Educators

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                 Battery Recycling

 PB90-272 063     Variable Rates in Solid Waste:
                 Handbook for Solid Waste Officials

PB90-163 114.      Yard Waste Composting: A Study of
                 Eight Programs

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        Media  Campaign Promotes
                   Buying Recycled
    onsumers  all across America are
    getting the "buy recycled" message
    like never before.  The Environ-
mental Defense Fund (EDF), with support
from EPA and many states, has launched
a new advertising campaign on the im-
portance of buying recycled products and
packaging. During the next two  years,
television, radio, newspaper, and maga-
zine advertisements will encourage con-
sumers to look for and buy products
made from recycled materials. The ads
invite people to call EDF's hotline to re-
ceive a free brochure that explains how
important buying recycled products and
packaging is to the overall success of recy-
cling programs.
  This is EDF's third  recycling aware-
ness effort within the past five  years.
     BUY RECYCLED-
Previous campaigns used the familiar mes-
sages, "If You're Not Recycling, You're
Throwing It All Away" and "Recycle. It's
the  Everyday Way to Save the World."
EDF's educational program has evolved, as
recycling has matured, from an initial fo-
cus  on collection to the current emphasis
on buying recycled products as a way to
stimulate markets for recovered materials,
thereby "closing the recycling loop."

  EDF has been measuring the effective-
ness of its public education efforts.
Through  February 1994,  the organiza-
tion's recycling hotline had received
235,000 calls. EDF's recycling ads have
attracted  over  $115 million in donated
media exposure through the end of 1992,
and this new campaign is expected to be
just as popular with both consumers and
the media.
  EPA has been the single largest con-
tributor to this campaign, providing
funding to cover some of the costs for
producing the  advertisements and for
distributing them to media outlets across
America.  The  McCann-Erickson adver-
tising agency donated its services to
create the campaign. The Ad Council, a
nonprofit organization that encourages
public  service  advertising, contributed
its public service  marketing expertise.
The Ad  Council's endorsement has
helped to increase the campaign's expo-
sure in the media.
  For a copy of a free brochure on buying
recycled products, call EDF's recycling
hotline at 800 CALL-EDF (800 225-5333).!

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                              New  Yorkers Are
     The city that has long
     been considered the
     center of the Ameri-
 can meltingpotis currently
 cooking up a diverse mixture of
 waste prevention  actions. Around
 the Big Apple, large and small gro-
 cers are packing food in single bags
 or reusing bags returned by custom-
 ers. Numerous Chinese take-out
 restaurants are urging  patrons to
 limit their consumption of dispos-
 able chopsticks,  forks, and soy
 sauce packets. Several hotels have
 replaced disposable miniature
 shampoo bottles with reusable dis-
 pensers. And many dry cleaners are
 accepting clothes hangers for reuse,
 reducing their own annual purchas-
 ing costs while keeping some of the
 750,000 clothes hangers handed out
 in New York City each year from
 going to landfills.
  These actions are just some of the
 ingredients  in  the New York City
 Partnership  For Waste Prevention's
 recipe for success.  The partnership
 is a cooperative effort involving lo-
 cal merchants and  New York's
 Department of Sanitation that is mak-
ing a dent in the city's waste stream
while saving business and taxpayer
dollars. In return for their commit-
ment to preventing waste, Partners
Waking  Up  in  the City
 That Prevents Waste
         For Waste Prevention receive public-
         ity, hands-on technical assistance,
         and public education materials from
         the Department of Sanitation's Bu-
         reau of Waste Prevention, Reuse, and
         Recycling.

           The Partnership is built primarily
         out of trade associations and, there-
         fore, can access networks, resources,
         and contacts that influence a great
         number  of individual businesses.
         The four groups that first joined the
         partnership in 1991—the Neighbor-
         hood Cleaners Association, the New
         York State Food Merchants Associa-
         tion, D'Agostino Supermarkets,  and
         the Direct Marketing Association—
         represent over 15,000 businesses.
         These organizations were followed
         by the Chinese American Restaurant
         Association of Greater New York, the
         New York City Hotel Association,
         and NYNEX Information Resources
         Company. Additional partners will
         be added soon.

           Each member of the Partnership
         prevents  waste in its own way. For
         example, NYNEX,  the  corporation
         that publishes phone books for the
       New  York metropolitan
       area, changed the format of
       its Manhattan white pages
       and cut the length of the di-
 rectory by over 100 pages. NYNEX
 saved costs on over one million
 phone books and prevented 107
 tons of paper from  entering New
 York City's waste stream.

   The Bureau attributes its success
 stories to the close working relation-
 ships it builds with members of the
 Partnership and their constituents.
 "The program is at its best when we
get close to the partners and really
interact," says Dave Kleckner, direc-
tor of waste prevention programs for
the Bureau. "Our most substantive
results come  from gaining specific
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                      Waste-Less in Seattle
          Washington  Retailers  Reduce  Packaging
     You can't judge a book by its
     cover, but you can judge the
     book's cover—and the bag in
which the book is sold. While pack-
aging serves many useful purposes,
some businesses are finding that
certain types of packaging are un-
necessary.
  To reduce packaging waste, 41 re-
tailers representing over 760 stores
in the state of Washington have en-
dorsed the Preferred Packaging
Procurement Guidelines. Drawn up
by the  Washington Retail Associa-
tion with funding from EPA and
other sources, the guidelines consist
of goals, priorities, and tips that re-
tailers  can voluntarily follow to
reduce packaging waste and encour-
age recycling.

  The  guidelines challenge retail-
ers to achieve a number of targeted
goals.  One of the goals encourages
retailers to reduce all packaging by
25 percent  within 48 months.
Another asks businesses to use cor-
rugated cardboard with 40 percent
recycled content within 24 months
and 50-percent recycled content
within 48 months. The recycled
content should include as much
postconsumer material as possible.
  The guidelines also provide a set of
waste reduction priorities to which
retailers can refer when pursuing
their individual reduction and recy-
cling goals. The first priority is to
eliminate packaging whenever possi-
ble. If packaging cannot be eliminated,
retailers  should then minimize the
material used. As a third priority, pack-
ing material or packages should be
reused. And fourth, retailers should
design packages that can be conven-
iently recycled and/or that contain
recycled content.
    ,_r   _t   sible,eliminate \
    lie packaging altogether.   '

     uideline 2: Minimize   ,
  Lorjfhose products that must ^
   ©packaged, minimize the
   amount of material that is
                packaging.    j
      Sign packages that are
    hef consumable, refillable^
     Recyclable/Recycled
   g^^C6ntent;;;;";:-:;.  .
  jpcluqe packages that are
  ^^tfable ancl/pr contain
  P3"^rgrycled content.
  Over the past two years, many
retailers  have made impressive
strides in implementing the guide-
lines. Storman's, a Seattle-area
grocer, eliminated packaging by
serving food samples on  edible
crackers instead of disposable nap-
kins  or forks. Associated Grocers,
Inc., worked with suppliers to mini-
mize the plastic in its cooking oil
bottles, eliminating  over  6,400
pounds of polyethylene terephtha-
late (PET). Helen's Hallmark reuses
the packaging peanuts it receives
from suppliers and even donates the
extras to Mailboxes, Etc., for reuse
in mailed packages. (About ten 34-
gallon bags of peanuts are donated
each month.) A large national retailer,
Nordstrom's, Inc., simultaneously in-
creased the recycled content in its
shopping bags and made its bags eas-
ier to recycle by replacing  plastic
handles with paper ones. (Products
made out of a single type of material,
such  as Nordstrom's new all-paper
bags, are usually easier for recyclers
to process.)

   Finally, the guidelines offer prac-
tical technical assistance, including
a set  of tips  on reducing packaging
waste, a checklist for conducting an
in-house packaging analysis,  and
other tools that retailers can use to
work with suppliers to reduce pack-
aging. The guidelines are designed
to be flexible so that retailers can
use their own ideas and timelines
for implementing strategies.

   For more  information on the
Preferred Packaging Procurement
Guidelines, write Patty Schwegman of
the Washington Retail  Association,
618 South Quince, Suite A, PO. Box
2227, Olympia, WA 98507, or call
her at 206 943-9198.1

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  RESOURCES
  I
  »
    Crafting a Materials Exchange for the Arts
    Thanks to a recent guide published by New York's Mate-
    rials for the Arts and EPA Region 2 (New Jersey, New
    York, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands), the next
Mona Lisa could be painted on scrap fabric donated by a
textile factory to a budding Leonardo Da Vinci. The publica-
tion, entitled Starting a Materials Donation Program: A Step-
by-Step Guide, leads readers through the process of
launching a materials exchange, which is a program that
 	  matches _donation_s of un-
 I                   tTneeded^materials and goods to
                      artists or nonprofit organiza-
                      tions that can use them. Mate-
                      rials  exchanges  not only
                      benefit worthy causes, but also
                      prevent usable items from join-
       materials for the arts
 I  .
                     ^Ling the waste stream.
                     tss-.wBtt. guide draws on Materi-
                      als for the Arts' 15 years of
success as a materials exchange. It presents tactics for solic-
iting in-kind donations, raising funds from government and
private sources, and marketing materials to artists and oth-
ers. The guide also offers useful tools for starting and
organizing a materials exchange,  such as sample donation
requests, thank-you letters, and warehouse rules. Materials
for the Arts is jointly funded by the City of New  York
Department of Cultural Affairs and Department of Sanitation, Bureaiu of Waste Prevention, Reuse and Recycling.
To order a free copy of this guide, contact Materials for the Arts, 410 West 16th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY
10011, or call 212 255-5924.
      •THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS

                                 Garbaae A to Z

  GARBAGE
  PRIMER
  	»	
                                             sed about solid waste? Don't know what exactly a leachate
                                         collection system collects? Need ideas on how your commu-
                                         nity might improve markets for recyclables? Then The Gar-
                                     bage Primer, a guidebook on solid waste produced by the League of
                                     Women Voters for citizens and local officials, can help. Developed
                                     with funding from EPA,, the primer covers the economics, politics,
                                     MSSjJiSiil^^                          options, including
                                     source reductioi^recyciEmgTconT^ostuig, incineration, and landfill-'
                                     ing. The primer also discusses the challenges posed by managing
                                     special wastes, such as motor oil, and ways that citizens can get
                                     involved in solid waste management. By clarifying the issues and
                                     facts surrounding solid waste, this book encourages readers to
                                     "readily understand and influence municipal solid waste issues and
                                     policies." The Garbage Primer, which costs $12.95, is available in
                                     bookstores and from the League of Women Voters of the United
                                     States, 1730 M StreerNW, Washington, DC 20036, or call 202
                                     429-1965 and ask for Publication Number 954.
10

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Public Meeting

for Small Landfills

    EPA is holding a series of public.meet-
    ings on alternatives for ground-
    water monitoring at small* dry, and
remote municipal solid waste landfills.
Anyone involved with municipal solid
waste management is invited to attend-
especially owners/operators of small
landfills in remote communities. Waste
management specialists  and repre-
sentatives of state and local governments,
environmental groups, and public inter-
est organizations may attend the meet-
ings, present a statement, and/or submit
written information to the Agency. Meet-
ings will be held: (1) June 8 in Salt Lake
City, Utah;  (2) June 10 in Anchorage,
Alaska; (3) June 14 in Midland, Texas; and
(4) June 28 in Washington, D.C. at EPA.
   For more information or to preregis-
ter for any of the meetings, please call
the EPA Alternatives to Ground-Water
Monitoring Hotline at 800 230-3546.


Consumer

Education Video

Released
    To improve consumer education
    about  how purchasing choices
    can affect the environment, the
University of Illinois Cooperative Ex-
tension Service has released a one-hour
video for educators and  consumer
groups. Entitled Making Choices  with
the Environment in  Mind, the video
covers general principles  of environ-
mental education, as well as facts about
packaging that  can  help  consumers
make informed choices.

  To purchase or preview this vide-
otape,  send a check (payable to the
University of Illinois) to Brenda Cude,
Environmental Shopping, University of
Illinois, 271 Bevier Hall, 905 S. Good-
win Avenue,  Urbana, IL 61801.  The
cost to preview the video is $10, which
can be applied to the purchase price
.of $20. An accompanying curriculum
is available for an additional $3.0.
Now Available

     The Solid Waste Association of; j
    ;North America (SWANA), un- :i
     der an EPA grant, recently pub-
lished a report entitled Coizsfrucfz'ojti
Waste and Demolition Debris Recy- \
cling—A Primer.  It provides infor-
mation  to communities and to the ;
private sector on planning and im-
plementing recycling programs for :
construction and demolition debris; ;
known as "G&D waste." The report  :
describes federal and state: C&D j
regulations, presents generation
data, and discusses the factors that,
influence generation  rates. It also ;;
identifies the types of materials gen- •'"'.,
erated and provides information on j
market  opportunities  for these re- ;
covered C&D materials. In addition,
the report describes available C&D  i
waste processing systems and pro- ;;
vides estimates of their costs. Three :
case studies also are presented. This
report is available from SWANA at a i
costof $35 to SWANA members and  i
$50 to nonmembers.For more in-  .
formation or to  order the report,
write to SWANA at RO. Box 7219,
Silver Spring, MD 20907, or call 301
585-2898.
  I Construction Waste
  |& Demolition Debris
  I Recycling... A Primer
                        L
New Yorkers Are
Waking Up in the
City That Prevents
Waste

(Continued from page 8)

commitments and  following
up." One way that Kleckner's
office has followed up  is by
conducting  a  summer out-
reach  program  for   dry
cleaners, grocery stores, and
Chinese restaurants. The pro-
gram used  site visits and
surveys to collect feedback on
waste prevention measures,
research case studies, and
identify outstanding efforts.
The site visits also  gave the
Partnership a chance to en-
courage nonparticipating
businesses to institute waste
prevention.

  The Partnership For Waste
Prevention is only part of New
York City's broad effort to tap
the potential of waste preven-
tion. A Mayoral Directive
issued in 1992 instructed all
City of New York agencies to
engage in active waste preven-
tion. The Directive  included
instructions to print and copy
double-sided,  send intraof-
fice mail in reusable envelopes,
and cut down on the use  of fax
cover pages. By combining the
Partnership with initiatives like
the Mayoral Directive and pro-
grams that promote  packaging
reduction, materials exchanges,
and waste prevention in schools
and households, New  York
hopes to meet an ambitious
goal—to use  waste prevention
tactics to reduce waste by 9 per-
cent by the year 2000.

  For more information on the
New York City Partnership For
Waste Prevention or other
waste prevention programs
run by the City of New  York,
contact Dave Kleckner of the
Bureau of Waste Prevention,
Reuse, and  Recycling at 212
837-8175.1
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Jobs Through Recycling
(Continued from page 1)

infrastructure of their agencies, KEDAs
will advocate exclusively for recycling-
based businesses. These business
development professionals will be re-
sponsible for attracting materials
processors and recycled product
manufacturing plants to a state or
tribe. They will facilitate the expan-
sion of existing recycling businesses
and work to convert them to the use
of recovered materials.  REDAs will
also establish strong communication
links among existing, traditional
state or tribal economic development
agencies, solid waste programs, and
other recycling business develop-
ment efforts.
   EPA expects to announce grant
awards by late  summer. EPA's  re-
gional offices are playing a major role
in reviewing proposals from states
and tribes  and also will manage the
programs operating in their regions.

   A third component of this initia-
tive will support the creation of a
national network to provide informa-
tion on  recycling technologies to
manufacturers,  small  businesses,
and entrepreneurs. The network will
also identify barriers to the use of
recyclable  materials  and develop a
research agenda to find solutions.

  As  a fourth component, EPA will
initiate interagency agreements and
pursue joint projects with other fed-
eral agencies to tap a variety of
government resources to benefit  re-
cycling business  development. For
example, EPA and the Economic De-
velopment Administration (EDA) are
jointly sponsoring workshops with
economic development officials,
solid  waste experts,  and financing
specialists  to explore capital forma-
tion for  recycling businesses. The
workshops will take place this June
and September under the auspices of
the Northeast Recycling Coalition.

  For more information about the
fobs Through Recycling Initiative, call
Tim Jones  at 202 260-7920 or Kim
Carr at 202 260-7600.fi
  Three Cities Attract Recycling Jobs
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        several existing EM-spbnsored pilot projects that jink; recycling and
        economic deyefopmemj_iDne such program is the National Capital
  Area Project, which is designed to attract recycling enterprises and scrap-
  based industries tot Balturiore,  Maryland;  Richmond,  Virginia;  and
 -^Washjngton,  DC. Facilitatedjby the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a
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  prbgTams, anci designing' mafIcet^(Jevelbpmeni: strategies^ they are also
  coordinating regional approaches to pVpblem-solyingi and promoting po-
   jitical and economic cooperation across jurisdictionai lines. The success of
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Degradable Ring Rule Finalized
      In March 1, 1994, EPA issued
      a rule that sets degradability
      standards for plastic ring car-
riers commonly used on beverage
cans. The carriers pose a threat to
marine  wildlife when improperly
disposed of in the environment.
  The  rule requires  testing proce-
dures that manufacturers will use to
ensure the degradability of their ring
carriers. Ring carriers are currently
being made of photodegradable plas-
tics that disintegrate into  smaller
fragments in  the presence  of sun-
light. These carriers appear to meet
EPA's standards for degradability.
EPA also encourages the develop-
ment of ring carriers made from
biodegradable plastics, however, as
these plastics  can degrade com-
pletely in the marine environment.

  Discarded ring carriers do not de-
grade immediately. EPA  therefore
encourages people to avoid littering
and to properly dispose of their ring
carriers.

  For a copy of the rule or for more
information, call the RCRA Hotline
at 800 424-9346.1
Meet Mike Shapiro
New OSW Director
        Mike Shapiro is the new Director of EPA's
        Office of Solid Waste. Most recently he
        served as Deputy Assistant Administra-
tor in EPAs Office of Air and Radiation, where
he directed implementation of the Clean Air Act
Amendments of 1990. He also held various po-
sitions in the Office of Pesticides and Toxic Sub-
stances. He  earned a Ph.D.  in environmental
engineering from Harvard and holds a B.S. de-
gree  in mechanical engineering from Lehigh University. Mr. Shapiro's top
solid waste priorities include encouraging pollution prevention efforts, de-
veloping recycling industries, and initiating a long-term strategy for reducing
and managing industrial nonhazardous wastes.fi
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             Comprehensive  Procurement
             Guideline  Proposed
    oon, federal and many other government
    agencies will be adding a wide variety of
    products containing recovered materi-
als to their shopping lists. On April 20,1994,
EPA proposed a Comprehensive Procurement
Guideline (CPG) that "designates" 21 products,
from plastic trash bags to engine coolant for
government purchase.

  The underlying impetus behind the CPG is
the need to stimulate markets for materials
collected through recycling programs. Presi-
dent Clinton reiterated this need when he
signed Executive Order 12873 on October 20,
1993. In issuing the CPG, EPA will have met
one of its major responsibilities under that
Executive Order, as well under Section 6002 of
the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
(RCRA), the law that authorizes and directs
EPA to issue procurement guidelines.

  Prior to the President's Executive Order, EPA
had issued five procurement guidelines cover-
ing  paper  and paper products, re-refined
lubricating oils, retread tires,  building insula-
tion products, and cement and concrete
containing coal fly ash. In addition to designat-
ing  new items,  the CPG incorporates and
reorganizes the  five existing  procurement
guidelines.

  Under RCRA, all government  agencies,
along  with  their contractors and grantees,
that purchase designated items ("procuring
agencies") are required to establish a prefer-
ence for buying the items  with recovered
material content, if they spend more  than
$10,000 a year on an item using appropriated
federal funds. To do so, they must develop or
revise their existing "affirmative procurement
program." The program must include at least
the following four components:

• Recovered materials preference program.
  Procuring agencies must establish a system
  for buying designated items containing re-
  covered materials. They can do this by using
  one of three alternative approaches pro-
  vided in RCRA.

• Promotion program. Procuring  agencies
  must actively promote their preference for
  products made from recovered materials.
  For example, they can publish articles in
  newsletters both inside and outside of their
  agencies, hold employee training work-
  shops, participate in trade fairs, and include
  statements in bid solicitations.
H Estimation, certification, and verification
  program. Agencies must establish  proce-
  dures for collecting estimates and certifica-
  tions from  vendors,  and for verifying
  information  about the recovered material
  content of the products they buy.

• Monitoring.  Agencies must monitor their
  progress in buying products made from re-
  covered materials and report on their pur-
  chases of designated items.
  In addition, procuring agencies must review
their purchasing specifications for designated
items to incorporate requirements for recov-
ered material content, and to remove language
that might hinder the purchase of these items.
For example, if a specification requires that
only virgin plastic  resins be used in plastic
trash cans, that requirement must be changed
to allow for the use  of recovered plastic, since
such trash cans are  now available.

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  Only the following conditions can exempt
procuring agencies from these procurement re-
quirements:
• If an item containing recovered material is
  only available at an unreasonable price.
• If there is inadequate competition (not
  enough sources of supply).
• If there would be an unusual and unreason-
  able delay in obtaining an item.
• If the item does  not meet  all reasonable
  performance requirements.
                                                At the same time that EPA proposed the CPG,
                                              it published a draft Recovered Material Advi-
                                              sory Notice (RMAN). The RMAN lists the
                                              ranges of recovered material content within
                                              which designated  items are commercially
                                              available. It also suggests purchasing practices
                                              to help government agencies buy these prod-
                                              ucts.

                                                To obtain more information or a copy of the
                                              Federal Register notices  for the CPG  or the
                                              RMAN, call the RCRA Hotline at 800-424-
                                              9346.1
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