Jun 6 - Study Touts Recycling, Decries Waste-to-Energy, to Stem Climate Change (Waste Business Journal)

Today is the deadline for submitting comments to the ETAAC committee, and CAW has submitted a letter supporting recommendations J through N of the Industrial Sector (on page 89 of the report).

• Read our letter to the committee.
• See our previous blog entry for a description of these recommendations.
• Submit additional letters supporting these recommendations. (Letters should be sent to Steve Church at the ARB)
• Attend ETAAC's upcoming meetings on January 25th and February 11th.

The first formal meeting of the state’s Climate Action Team subgroup on Recycling and Waste Management will be taking place next week. The Recycling and Waste Management Subgroup is part of the Governor’s Climate Action Team, which is the primary vehicle for state agencies such as the Department of Conservation and the CIWMB to make policy recommendations for the implementation of AB 32.

This meeting is the starting point in the process for developing a proposal that could include a credit system for the production and utilization of recycled/composted materials, as well as host of other programs to remove barriers to composting and increase commercial and residential recycling.

Monday’s meeting will be an opportunity to urge the CAT subgroup to recommend to ARB a set of strong policies that will encourage the ARB to focus on waste reduction, recycling, and composting as greenhouse gas reduction measures.

The meeting of the newly expanded Recycling and Waste Management Subgroup (formerly “Landfill Subgroup”) will be held Monday at the Cal/EPA building, and the audio from the meeting will be webcast. Although this is only an introductory meeting and not much will actually be decided, this CAT subgroup process will be a good opportunity for recyclers, composters, and industries that use recycled materials to support including recycling in the development of the AB 32 Scoping Plan.

• Agenda
• Webcast (Audio Only)

Economic and Technology Advancement Advisory Committee

• Februrary 22 2008 - Joint Letter to CARB Board on ETAAC
• January 18 2008 - Expansion of Recycling Section
• June 4 2007 - Ideas and Suggestions for Technologies to Reduce Climate Change Emissions in California
• November 30 2007 - Waste Reduction and Recycling in Draft ETAAC Report

ARB Mandatory Reporting

• May 16 2007 - Mandatory Reporting for Solid Waste Landfills
• August 7 2007 - Mandatory Reporting for Landfill Sector
• November 30 2007 - Landfill Sector Mandatory Reporting (Joint Letter from CAW, NRDC, Sierra Club California, & Enivornmental Defense)

AB 32 Scoping Plan

• October 1 2007 - Scoping Plan Suggestions

Cal/EPA Market Advisory Committee

• June 14 2007 - Market Advisory Committee Draft Reccomendations

ARB Early Action Measures