Zero Waste

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Zero Waste

• A Policy, Path, Direction
• A Target, Process, Way Of Thinking
• Recognizes 71 Tons Upstream For Every Ton MSW
• From Waste Management To Resource Management
• Redesigning Products and Processes for Clean
  Production
• New Vision For A New Century

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Zero Waste is about

• Smartness
• Forward-thinking
• Balanced Alternatives
• Efficiency
• Prudence
• Caring

• Responsibility
• Stewardship
• Competence
• Vision
• Ingenuity
• New Thinking
• New Technologies
• Planning Ahead

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Definition of Zero Waste

• Zero Waste is a goal that is both pragmatic and
  visionary, to guide people to emulate sustainable
  natural cycles, where all discarded materials are
  resources for others to use. 
• Zero Waste means designing and managing products
  and processes to reduce the volume and toxicity
  of waste and materials, conserve and recover all
  resources, and NOT BURN OR BURY THEM.
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• Implementing Zero Waste will eliminate all
  discharges to land, water or air that may be a
  threat to planetary, human, animal or plant
  health.

www.zwia.org/standards.html
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ReduceReuse Recycle Zero Waste
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Urban Environmental Accords

• From World Environment Day in SF 2005
  (www.wed2005.org)
• 100 Largest Cities Asked to Adopt
• Zero Waste by 2040 is one of Accords

Picture Methane Earth Credit GISS, NASA
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Zero Waste Communities(www. ZWIA.org)

• Halifax, Nova Scotia
• Toronto, Ontario
• Nelson, British Columbia (BC)
• Regional Districts BC
• Kootenay Boundary
• Central Kootenay
• Nelson
• Cowichan Valley
• Sunshine Coast
• Smithers, BC
• Nanaimo, BC

• Canberra, Australia
• NZ Entire Country
• Over 50 of NZ Cities
• Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Seattle, WA
• Boulder County, CO
• Summit County, CO
• Central Vermont Waste Mgt.District
• New York City (Citizens ZW Plan)

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CA Zero Waste Communities

• CIWMB Strategic Plan
• San Luis Obispo County
• Del Norte County
• Burbank (informally)
• San Bernardino County Zero Waste Communities
  (informally)

• SF Bay Area
• San Francisco
• Oakland
• Santa Cruz County and all cities in Co.
• Berkeley
• Palo Alto
• Sonoma County LTF

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Zero Waste Businesses are Leading the Way (90
Waste Diversion)

• NUMMI, Fremont, CA
• Pillsbury
• Playa Vista, LA, CA
• San Diego Wild Animal Park
• Scomas Restaurant, SF
• Vons-Safeway
• Xerox Corp
• Yost Printer, Monrovia, CA

• Anheuser-Busch, Fairfield, CA
• Apple Computer, Elk Grove, CA
• Epson (OR)
• Fetzer Vineyards
• Frankies Bohemian Café, SF
• Greens Restaurant, SF
• Hewlett-Packard, Roseville, CA
• Mad River Brewery
• New Belgium Brewery, Fort Collins, CO

Source www.grrn.org/zerowaste/articles/companies_
zw.html
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Panel 1 Laws, Orders, and Policies for Zero Waste

• Gary Liss, Gary Liss Associates, Moderator,
• Evan C. Henry, Bank of America, Incentives for
  Corporate Environmental Responsibility
• James Kaz Inouye, American Honda Motor Co Inc.,
  It Just Makes Cents to Reduce Waste
• John Picard, E2 Environmental Enterprises,
  "Beyond Compliance Preventing Risks and Reducing
  Liabilities through Zero Waste Programs"

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Regulatory Compliance

• Laws, Orders and Directives
• International
• National
• State
• Local and Regional
• Pending Legislation and Future Legislative Trends

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Beyond Compliance

• Manage Risks and Decrease Liabilities
• Avoid Penalties and Benefit from Incentives
• Marketing Edge (Green Business)
• Pressure from Shareholders
• Level Playing Field (Voluntary Industry
  Standards)
• World Class - Do the Right Thing

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Program Results

• Waste Produced at Business
• More than 90 diverted from Landfills and
  incineration
• Design out Waste Pollution Prevention
• Takebacks of Products/Packaging
• Green Buildings for Facilities
• Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
• Incentives Supply Chain Management
• Triple Bottom Line People, Planet, Profits