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A Rural Cooperative Recycling Tool Kit |
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Regional Purchasing, Recovery, Processing & Market
Development
Rural jurisdictions face unique challenges in the
development and implementation of solid waste diversion
efforts. The passage of the Integrated Waste Management
Act of 1989 (AB 939) increased these challenges by
requiring jurisdictions to develop and implement
programs to divert fifty percent of their wastes by the
year 2000. Some of the challenges facing rural
jurisdictions include: distance between generators and
markets, seasonal fluctuations, lack of staff and
funding, limited economy of scale, high collection costs
because of dispersed populations, low tax base for
funding programs, and the potential for improper
disposal of wastes on large tracts of public land and
along roadsides in remote regions.
This Rural Cooperative Recycling Tool Kit provides rural
jurisdictions with an evaluation process for the
development and implementation of rural cooperative
recycling solid waste diversion programs. Cooperative
recycling between jurisdictions may provide a means of
overcoming many of the barriers to cost effective
diversion programs in rural areas. There are many ranges
of cooperation that can be used. This Tool Kit provides
a methodology for rural jurisdictions to evaluate the
current solid waste infrastructure in order to identify
potential discarded materials that are candidates for
diversion. Potential activities and resources are
presented that can assist in developing programs and
markets for these discarded materials.
Many of the concepts presented in this Tool Kit are
based upon the joint efforts of Del Norte and Humboldt
Counties in development and implementation of their
“Regional Purchasing, Recovery, Processing, and Market
Development Plan”. The Del Norte Solid Waste Management
Authority contracted with the Rural Counties'
Environmental Services Joint Powers Authority (ESJPA) to
develop this Tool Kit for the benefit of its twenty-one
member counties and other rural California
jurisdictions. Both of these documents were funded by
the California Integrated Waste Management Board.
Click on the links to view and download the Tool
Kit and the appendices. All downloads are available in
Adobe Acrobat. The Tool Kit is also available in
Microsoft Word format. |
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