More than 100 professionals are now WasteCap Accredited Professionals in Construction & Demolition Waste Management and Recycling
Next training: August 16, 2007 at Cherry Court Community Room (1525 N. 24th St. in Milwaukee)
After hosting three public training sessions and a number of private training sessions for accreditation in construction & demolition waste management and recycling, there are now more than 100 WasteCap Accredited Professionals in the United States. Accredited professionals represent a variety of industries including architecture, engineering, environmental consulting, general contracting and waste hauling from all corners of the country. To view a current list of WasteCap Accreditated Professionals, click here. WasteCap will be hosting the next training program for accreditation on Aug. 16 in Milwaukee. Registration will only be open from July 16 – 30th. Space is very limited. For general information on WasteCap's Construction & Demolition Waste Management and Recycling training program, click here.

Final report for the Governor’s Task Force on Waste Materials Recovery and Disposal available online
According to Governor Jim Doyle, the Task Force was comprised of 19 members representing communities, companies, and organizations from all over Wisconsin who share the goal of managing Wisconsin’s resources safely and efficiently, minimizing waste, and helping to keep Wisconsin’s economy strong. The Task Force’s final report of recommendations was presented to the Governor in December 2006 and is now available for viewing online. Click here to download the report and for more information on the Task Force.

Award-winning Milwaukee Technical and Trade School demolition project releases final report
Milwaukee Public Schools, Champion Environmental and WasteCap Wisconsin teamed up to reduce, reuse and recycle demolition waste from the Milwaukee Technical and Trade School project in Milwaukee. The project not only won a Big Diverter award at WasteCap Wisconsin’s 2006 R3 Awards, but ended up achieved an outstanding 99% recycling rate! To read the final report on the project, click here.

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2. UPCOMING CONFERENCES / GRANTS / JOB OPENINGS
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JOB OPENING: Program Director for Recycling Connections Corporation
Deadline: June 22, 2007
Location: Plover, WI (location of work flexible)
Duties include providing creative program planning, guidance and implementation, assisting with marketing, public relations and media contacts. Position will effectively represent RCC, its contractors and its programs through presentations, written, telephone and personal contacts in a variety of settings. Program director will participate in meetings including recording, filing and distributing minutes and providing input, coordinating and facilitating events and meetings. For more information, call Karin Sieg at (715) 345-5972 or email karin@recyclingconnections.org.

Renewable Energy & Sustainable Living Fair
When: June 15 – 17, 2007
Where: Custer, WI
Since its inception in 1990, the Renewable Energy & Sustainable Living Fair has shown 190,000 fair-goers how to change the world while having fun. Each summer the Fair transforms rural Custer, Wisconsin into the global hot spot for renewable energy education. The Fair is the world’s largest renewable energy, energy efficiency and sustainable living education event of its kind. For more information, click here.

WasteCap Wisconsin Construction & Demolition Waste Management and Recycling Training for Accreditation
When: August 16, 2007
Where: Cherry Court Community Room at 1525 N. 24th St. in Milwaukee
Across the state and nationwide, owners are requiring construction waste recycling as a part of sustainable building. Contractors who know how to recycle will be at a market advantage. Reduction, reuse and recycling is allowing contractors and owners to use projects funds for building instead of waste disposal. This training will give you the skills you need to develop, manage, monitor, document and promote a successful recycling program for construction and demolition debris. It also provides training to obtain LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) points for MR 2.1 and 2.2. More than 100 professionals across the United States have now achieved WasteCap accreditation. Registration will only be open from July 16 -30th. Space is very limited. For more information on the training program, click here.

Greening the Heartland 2007
When: September 12 – 14, 2007
Where: Monona Terrace Convention Center, Madison
Greening the Heartland is a regional green building conference. The conference will highlight sustainability innovations, programs and activities in the Midwest states. The conference will offer important tools for planning and building green buildings. The tools include state-of-the-art design concepts, approaches and practices used in managing, enhancing, preserving and restoring resources. For more information, click here.

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3. RECYCLING NEWS THAT AFFECTS YOU
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CONSTRUCTION / DEMOLITION

More American cities implement measures to divert C&D debris
Source: American Recycler
More and more of America’s larger cities are placing a greater emphasis on reducing the amount of construction and demolition debris (C&D) from the waste stream in order to reduce annual landfill dumping fees, extend the life of existing landfills and to recycle materials that can be re-used. “Last year we passed a C&D debris recycling ordinance that mandates that large construction sites recycle 50 percent of their waste,” says Sadhu Johnston, the City of Chicago’s Commissioner for the Environment. To read the full article, click here.

Construction Marches On
Source: Construction & Demolition Recycling
Total construction spending in the U.S. rose again in March following an upward revision for February as single- family homebuilding held steady and nonresidential construction boomed, according to Ken Simonson, chief economist for the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC), commending on the April 30 construction spending report from the U.S. Census Bureau. To read the full article, click here.

FOOD WASTE RECOVERY / COMPOSTING

www.findacomposter.com goes live
Source: BioCycle
Taking advantage of on-line data management systems, BioCycle - with the Biodegradable Products Institute as a sponsor - has launched a searchable data base of composting facilities in the United States. Facilities that want to be listed in the data base can log on to www.findacomposter.com (FAC) and enter information about their operation. Once data entered is verified by BioCycle editors, the composting facility is added to the searchable data base. Users of FAC can search by fields including city, state and zip code, feedstocks, composting method, regulatory status, and more. To read the full article, click here.

COMPUTER / ELECTRONICS RECYCLING

Minnesota Legislature Passes Country's Toughest E-Waste Bill
Source: GreenBiz.com
This is the first bill in the country to set actual targets for how much equipment the manufacturers must take back and recycle, measured as a percent of the products they are selling in the state. The bill requires each manufacturer that sells TVs, computer monitors and laptops in Minnesota to collect and recycle an amount proportional to the weight of their products sold in the state during the previous year. To read the full article, click here.

Area recyclers boot up old computers for new users
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Ray Muschlewski of Castaway Computers knows the value of older technology - the local non-profit group collects old equipment from local businesses, fixes it and then donates it to schools, churches and other non-profit groups in southeastern Wisconsin as well as institutions in other countries. To read the full article, click here.

RECYCLED PRODUCTS AND REUSE

Waste Drywall Made Useful
Source: The Capital Times
Recycling has become an important word in today's environmentally conscious society. We recycle bottles, cans, magazines and plastic at the household level. What happens to all that stuff? Jim Kramer's work is part of the answer. The Brooklyn-area grain farmer is owner of Gypsum Recycling, Inc., where he's been turning waste drywall from the building industry into fertilizer and a manure additive used by dairy farmers for the past 11 years. To read the full article, click here.

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4. MEMBER PROFILE/WELCOME NEW & RETURNING MEMBERS
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THE JANSEN GROUP

The Jansen Group, Inc. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin has served the Milwaukee area as a quality general contractor and construction manager for over 75 years. Jansen is the only remaining general contractor that has its own highly skilled trade crews performing site work, concrete, masonry and carpentry. Jansen has established itself as a leader in the green building movement. Due to the commitment of its employees, recycling has become a standard corporate policy for all projects. Jansen was a partner and participant in an EPA / DNR funded study performed by Wastecap Wisconsin on the training and implementation of recycling on five commercial construction projects each performed by WasteCap trained project managers.

Green building practices were incorporated in the expansion and renovation of Jansen’s offices over 10 years ago. The Jansen Group chose to remain in its current location in order to maximize the use of the existing facility structure. Some of the features include: an open office concept utilized to take advantage of day lighting by maximizing natural lighting to all areas of the office; linoleum flooring in all circulation and support areas of the building made of natural material; existing built-in furniture that was reused and modified for new office layouts. Employees are encouraged to recycle and each workstation has separate containers.

Jansen was the construction manager on the team that received the first LEED Gold new building certification in the State of Wisconsin for the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center, in Bayside. The facility incorporates numerous green building features including a geothermal HVAC system, photovoltaic system, low flow and waterless toilet fixtures, recycled and rapid renewable content materials as well as trees sustainably harvested from the site for structural member and decking material. An extensive recycling program was conducted by The Jansen Group and WasteCap Wisconsin resulting in a 78% recycling rate on the project.

Jansen was also the construction manager on the Urban Ecology Center project in Milwaukee. The team used LEED as a guide for all design and construction decisions made on the project. Extensive use was made of reclaimed materials for finishes, such as reclaimed gymnasium flooring, ceiling tile, unique wall treatments, windows, brick and slate chalkboards. A gray water system, green roof, rain gardens, low flow fixtures and permeable paving were also used. With WasteCap’s help, Jansen achieved a 75% recycling rate on this project.

The Jansen Group is a member of Wastecap Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Green Building Alliance. If you need any further information on Jansen and the services they provide, contact Monique Charlier, LEED AP, WC AP, Division President, at mcharlier@jansengroup.com or for more information on the Jansen Group, Inc. please visit http://www.jansengroup.com.

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WasteCap welcomes bd design, Bierman Construction Corporation, Gilbane Building Company and Illinois State University to the WasteCap network of professionals working to recycle, reuse and reduce waste in Wisconsin. Special thanks to FEngberg Anderson Design Partnership, Flad & Associates, Homburg Equipment, Outpost Natural Foods and the City of Wauwatosa for their continued support of WasteCap Wisconsin and for sharing the vision of transforming waste into resources.
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For a complete list of WasteCap's current members please visit www.wastecapwi.org/members.htm.
Sign up as a member or read about member benefits at www.wastecapwi.org/join.htm.

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5. LEGISLATIVE / REGULATORY UPDATE
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Wisconsin Solid Waste Legislative Update
Source: John Reindl, Dane County Recycling Manager, reindl@co.dane.wi.us
At least four solid waste issues were taken up by Joint Finance, with two receiving unanimous support and two having votes split into 8-8 ties and therefore likely candidates for further action by a conference committee. The two issues that received unanimous support relate to funding for Clean Sweep and funding for the Waste Reduction and Recovery demonstration grants. To read the full legislative update, click here.

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6. USEFUL TOOLS / RESOURCES ON RECYCLING
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The Wisconsin Be SMART Coalition releases Public Place Recycling Toolkit
Source: BeSMART
This on-line toolkit was developed to assist municipal agents, event planners, haulers and other interested parties with the development of waste reduction and recycling programs at “away from home” venues, or Public Places. The toolkit focuses on three sectors; festivals/fairs, sporting facilities and conference/meeting (still in development) venues and highlights key steps for implementation, costs, useful resources/tools (including a report maker and collection calculator), and successes throughout the state. To view the toolkit, click here.

Reuse popular with recyclers: Madison couple reuse as much as they can from Lake Mendota cottage
Source: Wisconsin State Journal
Like other Madisonians, Mark Shults and his wife, Nancy Vedder-Shults, are dutiful recyclers, making sure their household items such as cans, bottles and newspapers stay out of the trash and are taken away to be turned into other items. But they are going well beyond that. They are working to recycle and are committing to have reused as much as they can from a Lake Mendota cottage they are demolishing to make way for a new one. To read the full article, click here.

Staples launches nationwide computer and office technology recycling program
Source: Staples
Staples, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPLS), the world’s largest office products company, announced that it now makes it easy to recycle used computers and other office technology at any Staples store nationwide, becoming the first national retailer to offer computer recycling in stores every day. Staples makes it easy for customers to recycle e-waste by simply bringing their used computers, monitors, laptops, printers, faxes and all-in-ones to any U.S. Staples store, where the equipment will be recycled in accordance with environmental laws. To read the full article, click here.

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WasteCap Wisconsin thanks its sources for the news, information, and ideas in this issue. WasteCap Wisconsin is a 501(c)(3) private nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide waste reduction and recycling assistance through business-to-business peer exchange, demonstration, and education for the benefit of businesses and the environment. To further this mission, we have developed these e-mail bulletins to provide you with information about the latest resources, recycling technologies, case studies, legislation, and other matters helping us transform waste into resources.

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Shannon Delaney, Communications Director & WasteCap Wisconsin Bulletin Editor
Stephanie Brien, Communications Intern
Kimberly Rauwald, Research Assistant
WasteCap Wisconsin
www.wastecapwi.org