Greening Local Government Doing Our Part

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Greening Local GovernmentDoing Our Part

• General Services Agency, Alameda CountyCarolyn
  J. Bloede
• April 4, 2006
• NCRA Conference

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Who Are We?

• County Government
• Registrar of Voters, Social Services, Detention
  Facilities, Health Care Services, Environmental
  Health, etc.
• 20 Agencies departments with 9,000 employees
• General Services Agency
• County Operations
• Maintain 6M sq. ft.
• Build remodel facilities
• Facility Leasing
• Communications
• Procurements
• Motor vehicle fleet
• Resource, energy conservation

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Team Approach
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Waste Reduction County Waste Assessment

• 70-Bld. trash audit
• Establish baseline
• 100K/yr Savings
• Targets
• Office paper
• Cardboard
• Green waste
• Target facilities
• Updated programs for 3M sq. ft.

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Composting Santa Rita Jail Food Waste

• Reusable Trays
• 1,400 tons/yr (80) Diversion
• 40K/yr Savings

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Property Salvage

• Office furniture, computers, printers, equipment
• Reuse 4,000 items/yr 100K/yr savings
• Sell 13,000 items/yr 100K/yr
• Recycling Services
• 120 Buildings
• 2M lbs/yr Recyclables
• 167K/yr Revenue
• Public Hours
• M-F 9-Noon, 1230 to 4 pm
• 15,800 Foothill Blvd, San Leandro
• [phone]

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Recycling

• Program services 9,000 employees
• Onsite recycling paper, cardboard, bottles
  cans, toner cartridges, batteries
• Additional services green waste, metals,
  plastics, electronic waste
• Program outreach on waste reduction, recycling,
  procurement
• New battery recycling program rollout

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Battery Collection Process
For Small Alkaline Rechargeable
Batteries Including AA, AAA, C, D, 9-volt,
button, etc. From cell phones, pagers, PDAs,
headsets, flashlights, etc.
User places County batteries in special bag then
in interoffice mail
Messenger collects, sorts and delivers bags to
Property Salvage
PS sorts batteries into three categories and
ships bulk collection to HHW
HHW sends batteries to accredited recycling
facility
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RecyclingConstruction Demolition Debris

• Diverted 1,355 tons
• 14 Projects
• 70 Average diversion
• Standard specifications

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Closing the LoopGreen Purchasing (EPP)

• 7 RFQs with EPP 6M
• Key Learnings
• Dont sacrifice quality
• Enough products for competitive bid?
• Will bidders bid desired products?
• EPP in RFQ Boilerplate
• Partner closely with Buyers
• Track products supplied (bid is just the
  beginning)

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Global Warming Green Building

• Energy conservation
• 2.31 mW solar online 882kW scheduled
• 7M ft2 lighting retrofits save 4M/yr
• 1 mW Fuel cell, May 06
• 40 hybrids, biodiesel vehicles and equipment
• Juvenile Justice Center, LEED Silver, Jan 07
• 130k/yr energy savings
• High efficient healthy

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Questions??

• Carolyn Bloede
• Resource Conservation Program Manager
• [phone]
• carolyn.bloede_at_acgov.org
• Karen Cook
• Recycling Program Coordinator
• [phone]
• karencook_at_acgov.org
• Matt Muniz
• Energy Program Manager
• [phone]
• matt.muniz_at_acgov.org