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West Coast Scrap Plastic Referral Service (888) 753-7485 http://www.caplasticsmarkets.com California Integrated Waste Management Board (800) 533-2962 http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/ Californian's Against Waste http://www.cawrecycles.org California Materials Exchange Program Calmax (916) 255-2369 http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/calmax Beverage Container Recycling Information 800-RECYCLE consrv.ca.gov California Resource Recovery Association (916)441-CRRA (441-2772) www.crra.com Alameda County Waste Management Authority and Source Reduction and Recycling Board (510)614-1699 www.stopwaste.org National Resources: [top]
Peanut Acceptance Polystyrene peanuts drop-off locations 800/828-2214 (area code sensitive) National Recycling Coalition www.nrc-recycle.org Grassroots Recycling Network www.grrn.org The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers www.plasticsrecycling.org EPA www.epa.gov National Association for PET Container Resources www.napcor.com "Conversion Technologies" Examined [top]
CIWMB's draft "conversion technology" report to the California Legislature about "conversion technologies" (Feb. 2005) http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/Organics/Conversion /Events/CTWorkshop/DraftReport.pdf Other comments on CIWMB's draft report to the California Legislature about "conversion technologies" http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/Organics/Conversion /Events/default.htm CIWMB's draft regulations for "conversion technologies" (Dec. 2004 http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/agendas/mtgdocs /2004/12/00017383.doc City of Alameda ends consideration of garbage gasification on October 18, 2004 http://www.greenaction.org/incinerators/alameda /victory101904.shtml Article about Alameda's consideration of gasification (June 30, 2004) Article about community concerns regarding catalytic cracking plastic facility in Hanford (The facilities permits were revoked in November) http://www.greenaction.org/stanislaus/press /hs111704.shtml Presentations from NCRA's February 2004 Recycling Update conference: Fernando Berton highlights the status of studies identifying different types of CT and their environmental impacts Jorge Emmanuel is an environmental consultant, chemical engineer, and chemist who commented on pollution concerns about high temperature facilities. He has coordinated testing and evaluation of more than a dozen pyrolysis and gasification technologies for medical waste. Dan Predpall is doing technical evaluations for communities around CA and the U.S. on these issues (including City of Alameda, City of Los Angeles, and County of Santa Barbara), and highlighted the different types of CT and their environmental impacts. Michael Theroux highlighted the importance in developing projects of addressing how best to integrate plans to recover commodities, generate electricity and effectively use the thermal energy produced. MichaelTheroux.ppt Please see NCRA News issues from Nov. 2004 and Oct. 2004 for more information as well. |
Personal SustainabilityHere's just a few interesting resources we've stumbled upon to amuse and maybe even give some helpful hints in greening your personal life. We're always open to more suggestions. Send good relevant links to ncra@ncrarecycles.org for our review. Thanks~ |
For Policy MakersAfter Toni Stein’s fascinating and factual presentation at the xxxx 20xx NCRA meeting, she provided some links for more information. If you are fortunate enough to be a NCRA member, you can go to the on-line version of this newsletter and press any of the links below. 1. Text of the Supreme Court decision, City of Chicago vs. Environmental Defense Fund, that requires testing of incinerator ash for toxics (among other things): http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/92-1639.ZO.html 2. Waste Incineration: A Dying Technology: http://www.no-burn.org 3. CalRecycle: http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/ 4. Covanta (Stanislaus Co.’s burn plant) W-T-E brochure in php format: http://www.covantaholding.com/site/stanislaus /covanta-stanislaus.html 5. Wheelabrator Technology’s W-T-E brochure:http://www.wheelabratortechnologies.com /index.cfm /our-clean-energy-plants/ For more information or to contact Toni Stein, e-mail Antoinette “Toni” Stein, PhD at tweil@igc.org |
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