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A Weekly Newsletter for Northwest Recyclers
Volume 20 Number 12 Week of 5-25-2007
Courtesy of Earthworks Recycling, Inc. Copyright 2007
Reach us or get a free subscription at: DTN@EarthworksRecycling.com
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In This Issue:
Editor’s Apology
Recycling Picture of the Week
2007 WSRA Award Winners
Recycling Required At Official Gatherings And Sporting Facilities
Fire At Illegal Dumpsite Sends Smoke Into Adams County Air
Ecology Contracts To Cleanup Tire Piles In Four Western Counties
May Issue Of The Closed Loop Scoop
Wal-Mart Awards Washington Schools For Recycling Efforts
Adverts
Number One Environmental Resource
Job Listings
Recycling Project Manager - City of Federal Way, WA
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Editor’s Apology
Hello loyal readers – I apologize that this is the second copy of the newsletter this week… The first copy was chopped off in the middle, similar to a previous issue that was sent twice.
I will work to ensure that this doesn’t happen anymore!
Happy Friday – I hope you’re enjoying spring as much as I am!
Brian
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Recycling Picture Of The Week
If you’ve got any pictures from the WSRA conference (or any other recycling related pictures from the inland northwest) lying around, send them in!
To see the picture archive, visit:
http://DTN.EarthworksRecycling.com
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2007 WSRA Award Winners
This year’s WSRA award winners: Presented at the Banquet at the recent conference.
Recycler of the Year – Primary
Second Use Building Materials
Seattle
Recycler of the Year – Business Generator
Burgerville Restaurants
Vancouver, WA
Recycler of the Year – Deconstruction / ReUse
US Army Base
Ft. Lewis, WA
Recycler of the Year – Public Agency
Naval Station Everett
Everett, WA
Recycler of the Year – Most Innovative
Cedar Grove Composting
Recycler of the Year – Education
Mid Columbia Earth Month & Community Clean Up Group
Recycler of the Year – K-12
Mount Baker School District
Recycler of the Year – Institute of Higher Education
Pacific Lutheran University
Recycler of the Year – Individual
Cindi Lepper
Hall of Fame
Lois Young, Skagit River Steel and Recycling, Inc.
Greg Matheson, Recycle Systems, LLC
Charlie Scott, Cascadia Consulting Group
Congratulations to all of this year’s winners!
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Recycling Required At Official Gatherings And Sporting Facilities
Dear all:
Maybe you know about this new law already, but (well-connected as I am) I didn’t find out about it until Sunday, when I was at the state recycling convention. Let me know whether we can be of any help as you set up on-site programs. Our event recycling booklet is posted to the RE Sources’ website: www.re-sources.org
Lisa Friend
RE Sources
Effective July 22, 2007, Washington House Bill 2056 establishes that in communities where there is both a recognized curbside service and a commercial recycling service, a recycling program must be provided at every official gathering and at every sports facility — by the vendors who sell beverages in single-use aluminum, glass, or plastic bottles or cans — for the collection of those containers. Here is the text of the bill:
“In communities where there is an established curbside service and where recycling service is available to businesses, a recycling program must be provided at every official gathering and at every sports facility by the vendors who sell beverages in single-use aluminum, glass, or plastic bottles or cans. A recycling program includes provision of receptacles or reverse vending machines, and provisions to transport and recycle the collected materials. Facility managers or event coordinators may choose to work with vendors to coordinate the recycling program. The recycling receptacles or reverse vending machines must be clearly marked, and must be provided for the aluminum, glass, or plastic bottles or cans that contain the beverages sold by the vendor.”
(Thanks go to our friend and avid supporter Lisa Friend for sending this information along! Message sent 5/10/07)
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Fire At Illegal Dumpsite Sends Smoke Into Adams County Air
SPOKANE–Fire broke out at approximately 6 p.m. Thursday at an illegal underground landfill in Adams County, southeast of Othello.
The landfill measures about 1,000 feet by 120 feet wide and the fire encompasses an area of approximately 250 feet wide by 100 feet long. The buried garbage ranges from plastic tubs and fiberglass items to refrigerators and freezers. The trash pile underground measures about 20 to 30 feet high.
Continue reading this Washington Ecology News Release from 5/4/07 here:
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/news/2007news/2007-115.html
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Ecology Contracts To Cleanup Tire Piles In Four Western Counties
OLYMPIA - The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) has awarded a contract to a team of companies to cleanup tire piles in Thurston, Lewis, Cowlitz and Jefferson counties. Tire Disposal and Recycling, a Portland-based business, and L&S Tire from Lakewood and Spokane will remove approximately 381,700 tires from 16 sites under the $631,916 contract.
To continue reading this Washington Ecology News Release from 5/16/07, visit:
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/news/2007news/2007-130.html
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May Issue Of The Closed Loop Scoop
The May issue of The Closed-Loop Scoop is out! Article subjects include:
Climate-Friendly Future for China
Elementary School Food Waste Program
Island County Beach Cleanups
Composting Programs at State Correctional Facilities
Update on Rule Revisions
To read the latest issue, click on the link below (which will take you to a web page on which you will need to make one more click–on the link labeled “View this publication in Acrobat PDF format”–to open the actual electronic newsletter file).
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/biblio/0707002.html
We hope the newsletter provides you with useful information. Thanks for reading!
Jim Bill
(From a message sent by Jim Bill on 5/16/07)
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Wal-Mart Awards Washington Schools For Recycling Efforts
Wal-Mart Awards More Than $40,000 to Washington Schools in Honor of Students’ Efforts to Recycle
BONNEY LAKE, Wash.-(Business Wire)-May 16, 2007 - Through its Kids Recycling Challenge program, Wal-Mart today announced it is awarding $40,470 to 174 Washington schools for students’ efforts to become responsible stewards of their environment. The company’s Kids Recycling Challenge effort is the largest plastic bag recycling program of its kind ever undertaken.
Finish reading the story on the American Digital Networks Production website:
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Adverts
Advertise here to over 600 people every issue! Run five lines, 3 times for $15. Have you got more info than five lines? We’ll talk. jim@earthworksrecycling.com.
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Number One Environmental Resource
The Environmental Services Directory for Washington State, first published in 1990 and online at www.esdwa.com since 2001, continues to be ranked #1 in Google, Yahoo and MSN searches for environmental services in Washington State.
This frequently updated online directory contains hundreds of listings and is easily searched by category, keyword or company name.
It also contains one of the most comprehensive calendars of meetings and events of interest to Washington’s environmental industry.
For more information, visit www.esdwa.com or contact Jerry Mattox, publisher, at JerMattox@msn.com or 206-282-2591.
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NEWSPAPER WANTED! I’m not kidding! Do you have some extra, dry old newspaper? We might be paying the price you want. Need not be de-ink quality. Bales preferred, loose not out of the question. You’ll never know if we can pony up the price unless you call. Contact Jim or Jeri at Earthworks Recycling, Inc. at (509) 534-1638 or Jim@EarthworksRecycling.com .
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Job Listings
Have a recycling related position available at your company? Advertise here, for free! To get the ball rolling, send your ready for press job listing to Jim@EarthworksRecycling.com
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Recycling Project Manager - City of Federal Way, WA
Recycling Project Manager (0.5 FTE) City of Federal Way, WA [closes 6/8/07]
Manage business and residential WR/R outreach services and operations [site visits, educational materials, event management, and grant reporting].
For a complete job description and application, follow this link:
http://www.cityoffederalway.com/Page.aspx?view=269&job=157
or, contact Rob Van Orsow (Solid Waste Coordinator) @ 253.835.2770
(Thanks Rob Van Orsow for submitting this job listing!)
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Congratulations to all of the WSRA Award winners! You don’t win those things sitting on your hands!
My daughter Savanna and I had a great time at the WSRA conference. She had a good time meeting lots of new people and seeing what a big recycling world it is out there past the gates of our modest little junkyard here in Spokane.
I’ve said this before, but one limitation of the conference is the amount of time to talk to everyone.
Just to talk five minutes each to 250 people would be over 20 hours of straight yakking.
There…enough about recycling for one week. Now Savanna and I have been playing Ultimate Frisbee for about a year with a group of friends, which makes an old guy like me have to hustle to keep up.
Here’s an interesting theory I heard about the word ‘Frisbee.’ About a century ago, deep in the Swiss Alps, in an ancient village that still exists, the cowherds came up with a new pastime. In their unique dialect, the word for a cowplop is ‘Fris’. Well, during the long boring hours of protecting the cows from the occasional mountain bear, they started flinging dried cowpies towards each other for a diversion.
The cowpies, which were about an inch or two thick and about a foot across on average, held together quit well because of freeze-drying at night in the cold mountain air and the long fibers of the high altitude grasses. They got quite good at making them ‘bee’ thru the air. ‘Bee’, being their term for ‘fly’.
Gradually, the sport and term spread to almost every corner of the world. Now you know the origin of the modern sport that literally translates to, “Flying Cowpie.”
Believe it…or not! Jim