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Title: Recycling Away From Home


1
Recycling Away From Home On The Go Recycling
Opportunities for Green Highways
  • Environmental Protection Agency
  • Office of Solid Waste
  • November 2005

2
Green Highways and EPA
  • Similar environmental stewardship goals
  • REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE, REBUY

3
2003 Municipal Solid Waste Generation236 Million
Tons
Food Scraps 11.7
Yard Trimmings 12.1
Other 3.4
Wood 5.8
Rubber, leather, and textiles 7.4
Paper 35. 2
Plastics 11.3
Metals 8.0
Glass 5.3
EPA Waste Characterization Report 2003
4
Waste Management Hierarchy
  • Avoid
  • Reduce
  • Reuse
  • Recycle
  • Recover
  • Dispose

Most Desirable
Least Desirable
5
How Waste is Managed
  • Land Disposal
  • 55.4
  • Combustion
  • 14.0
  • Recovery
  • 30.6

Recovery 30.6
Combustion 14
Land Disposal 55.4
EPA Waste Characterization Report 2003
6
Recycling Opportunities
  • 8,875 curbside programs across the USA
  • 51 households have curbside access
  • 50 of those that have access use it
  • Recycling- Away from Home and On the Go targets
    the 40 of MSW generated away from home (Away
    from Home)

7
Recycling-Away from Home and On the Go
Objectives
  • Develop a recycling infrastructure for away from
    home collection
  • Increase the amount of waste collected for
    recycling
  • Promote a culture of recycling by making it
    convenient, available and cost effective

8
Examples of Recycling Away from Home and on the Go
  • Recycling at offices, commercial establishments
  • Shopping malls and stores
  • Recycling at beaches, state and national parks
  • Recycling at airports, highway rest stops and
    subway and train stations
  • Recycling at special events

9
Why Recycle at Rest Stops?
  • Large potential to divert and recover waste.
  • Public awareness and acceptance of increased
    recycling.
  • Very positive public reaction to existing
    programs
  • Community Benefits

10
Wisconsin Rest Areas
  • An example of a successful rest stop recycling
    program.

11
Rest Stop Recycling
  • Wisconsin has 35 rest areas and 168 waysides.
  • Wisconsin recycles at all interstate rest stops
    and at waysides that receive more than 1000
    vehicles per day.

12
An Overview-- in 1998 rest stops recycled
  • 41,490 lbs of aluminum
  • 50,120 lbs of plastic
  • 156,717 lbs of glass
  • 32,922 lbs of newspaper and magazines

13
Components that make the program work
  • Physical Layout of Bins and well labeled
    containers
  • Public Education
  • Community Involvement

14
Physical Layout and Labeling
15
Public Education
  • Press Release announcing program inception.
  • Brochures available at rest stops.
  • Radio messages on highway broadcast channel.
  • Signs placed by trash and recycle bins.

16
Community Involvement
  • WDOT contracts with a non-profit organization
    Rehabilitation for Wisconsin (RFW), to run a Rest
    Area Maintenance (RAM) project.
  • Under RAM, Community Rehabilitation Programs
    train individuals to clean, landscape, and
    recycle at the rest areas.

17
  • Landscaping at highways rest stops
  • Erosion control
  • Plant selection
  • Durable benches and signs
  • Energy-efficient lighting

18
Buy Recycled-Content Products
  • Sustainable
  • Comprehensive
  • Procurement
  • Guidelines

19
CPG-Designated Products
  • Transportation products Traffic cones, Traffic
    barricades, Parking stops, Traffic control
    devices, Delineators, Flexible delineators
  • Landscaping products Compost, Hydraulic mulch,
    Garden/Soaker hose, Lawn and Garden edging,
    Landscaping Timbers and Posts
  • Construction products also established
  • Other sustainable choices Plastic lumber made
    from bags for outdoor structures, Rubberized
    asphalt, Biobased cleaners and solvents,
    Low-maintenance and native plants/grasses,
    Biodiesel and biobased lubricants for equipment,
    Fuel-efficient vehicles, High efficiency lighting
    for roadways, parking lots Solar-powered
    lighting and signage, Organic, biobased,
    slow-release fertilizers, Biopesticides in place
    of conventional pesticides

20
Highway Success Stories
21
TX DOT, Big Spring, TX

BEFORE COMPOST APPLICATION
22
TX DOT, Big Spring, TX
  • AFTER COMPOST APPLICATION

23
ID DOT Improves Highway Safety
BEFORE
AFTER
24
Recycled Rubber Raises Road
Maine DOT Mud Inlet Bridge
25
Why Highways Should GreenScape
  • Cost savings
  • Environmental Impact
  • Recognition
  • CPG requirement

26
Benefits to Fulfilling the Vision
  • Human Health
  • Risk reductions
  • Improved living
  • Ecosystem Protection
  • Removing hazards
  • Restoring land
  • Material and Energy Savings
  • Sustainability
  • Conservation

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For More Information
  • GreenScapes
  • www.epa.gov/greenscapes
  • Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines
  • www.epa.gov.cpg
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