Recycling: Do We Still Have to Do It?

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Recycling Do We Still Have to Do It?
April 4, 2003

• 2003 Spring Conference
• Allegheny League of Municipalities
• Seven Springs Mountain Resort

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YES !
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Current status of recycling

• 945 municipalities have curbside recycling
  programs
• 82 of these are in Allegheny County
• 59 are mandated by Act 101
• 23 implemented voluntarily
• 635 municipalities have drop-off recycling sites
• 16 of these are in Allegheny County
• PAs 2001 recycling rate 28
• Allegheny Countys 2001 rate 17.2

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Act 101 requirements

• Commercial Recycling
• Businesses
• Institutions
• Municipal facilities
• Commercial recycling education
• Community event recycling

• Residential curbside recycling
• Residential leaf waste collection
• Residential recycling education program

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Recycling Education

• Required 2 times per year
• Notify all persons occupying residential,
  commercial and institutional premises
• Describe program features and requirements
• Responsibilities of residents
• Responsibilities of commercial establishments

• Education Methods
• Newspaper, radio, TV advertisements
• Official notices
• Newsletters
• Public place notices
• Bill stuffers
• Calendars
• Other direct mail
• Website

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Recycling Education

• Where to get help
• County recycling coordinators
• Municipal recycling coordinators
• Environmental organizations
• Local printers in yellow pages of phone book
• Newspaper advertising department
• PA DEP website http//www.dep.state.pa.us
• directLINK (recycling coordinators
  corner)

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Recycling Reporting

• Report to county by February 15 (curbside and
  drop-off)
• Residential recycling
• Commercial, institutional, municipal, community
  events
• Leaf waste collection
• Potential sources of recycling records
• Haulers
• Businesses, institutions, municipal facilities
• Materials processors

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Community would report curbside commingled total
of 75.9 tons 89.29 (89.29 x 0.15) 75.9
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Performance grants (904)

• Source separated recyclables
• Aluminum, steel and bimetallic cans
• Clear and colored glass
• Corrugated paper, newspaper, high-grade office
  paper, other marketable grades of paper
• Plastics
• Residential and commercial post-consumer
  materials only
• Leaf waste not eligible
• (67 of eligible Allegheny Co. muni.s applied in
  2002)

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Performance grant formula

• 5.00/ton for residential tons
• 5.00/ton for commercial tons equal to
  residential tons (excess gets bonus)
• 1.00/ton for each percent of DEP calculated
  recycling rate
• 10.00/ton bonus for commercial tons in excess of
  residential tons

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Sample performance grants

• 350 residential tons 1,750
• 500 commercial tons 1,750
• 3.2 recycling rate 2,274
• Excess commercial tons 1,500
• TOTAL GRANT AWARD
• 7,274

• 350 residential tons 1,750
• 250 commercial tons 1,250
• 2.7 recycling rate 1,670
• Excess commercial tons 0
• TOTAL GRANT AWARD
• 4,670

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Recycling program development implementation
grants (902)

• 90 percent funding of approved costs
• Project development
• Collection processing equipment
• Drop-off processing facilities
• Recycling education programs
• Pre-application conference required
• DEP Regional Recycling Coordinator
• Sharon Svitek [phone]
• Allegheny County Recycling Coordinator
• Pete Previte [phone]

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Free recycling technical assistance program

• Professional assistance with
• Curbside program design
• Leaf waste collection composting
• Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT) programs
• Recycling education programs
• Up to 6,000 professional engineering services
• One-page application
• Reports posted on DEP website http//www.dep.sta
  te.pa.us
• directLINK (recycling technical assistance)

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Recycling means business in PA

• Recycling/reuse establishments 3,247
• Recycling/reuse employment 81,322
• Annual sales receipts 18.4 billion
• Annual payroll 2.9 billion
• Taxes to general fund (est.) 0.3 billion
• Indirect benefits 1.8 billion
• Total 23.4 billion

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Close the Loop Buy Recycled !