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 WASTECAP WISCONSIN E-MAIL BULLETIN
Issue 39 - May 2008
Your source for waste reduction and recycling news, information and ideas
  
 
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WasteCap Wisconsin's Latest Results:
WasteCap Wisconsin and its clients have diverted 259,906,457 pounds of construction and demolition waste from landfills, which is 46.8 pounds per person in Wisconsin. By recycling and avoiding disposal costs, The equivalent of 85,318 trees have been saved by recycling wood and cardboard. WasteCap Wisconsin’s construction and demolition projects are currently achieving an average 74.9% recycling rate. WasteCap has saved its clients $1,137,909.50 in avoided disposal costs by recycling C&D debris.
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WELCOME NEW & RETURNING MEMBERS
WasteCap thanks Action Consulting & Associates, CAM Recycling & Materials, Construction Waste Management, Madison Environmental Group, Marshall Erdman & Associates, RMK Enterprise, for their continued support of WasteCap Wisconsin and for sharing the vision of transforming waste into resources.

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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 IN THIS ISSUE
1. WasteCap Wisconsin and Member News
Become an Accredited Professional in Construction Waste Management at Greening The Heartland > WasteCap helps turn waste into resources > Free online directory targets state’s construction waste

2. Upcoming Conferences / Grants / Job Openings
2008 SE2 Conference request for presenters > Leadership and Environmental Sustainability: Green Pathways to Prosperity > Paper Recycling Conference and Trade Show > Save the date! Third Annual WasteCap Wisconsin R3 Awards

3. Recycling News that Affects You
Michigan company uses recycled glass in concrete > Global demand for cement and drywall to increase > Computer reuse key to saving energy > Sam’s Club launches online electronics recycling program

4. Useful Tools / Resources for Recycling
OfficeMax unveils line of TerraCycle's made-from-waste office products > Truckers roll out sustainability plan > Recycling in America — plenty of room for improvement

 
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 1. WASTECAP WISCONSIN NEWS
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Become an Accredited Professional in Construction Waste Management at Greening The Heartland
Date: June 25 in St. Louis
 Registration is open for WasteCap Wisconsin’s full-day Construction & Demolition Debris Recycling Training and Accreditation Program taking place during Greening the Heartland in St. Louis. Across Wisconsin 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. There are now more than 250 WasteCap Accredited Professionals in 14 states who have the skills to develop, manage, monitor, document and promote a successful recycling program for construction and demolition debris. Reduction, reuse and recycling is allowing contractors and owners to use projects funds for building instead of waste disposal. The training also provides training to obtain LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) points for MR 2.1 and 2.2. For more information and to register, visit www.wastecapwi.org/training.

WasteCap helps turn waste into resources
Source: Western Builder, May 2008
 WasteCap Wisconsin wants to show that good environmental stewardship and good economics can go hand in hand. The statewide, nonprofit organization helps businesses drive costs out of their operations by helping them improve their solid-waste management. The result is that less material goes into landfills, more material is reused and recycled, and businesses save money. One of the places WasteCap's experience can really help is in the recycling of demolition and construction waste. To read the full article, visit http://www.acppubs.com/article/CA6556450.html?rssid=112.

Free online directory targets state’s construction waste
In celebration of Earth Day, WasteCap Wisconsin launched the state’s first online directory of reuse and recycling markets for Wisconsin’s construction and demolition waste. The directory, named WasteCapDIRECT, is a free service for contractors to connect with haulers, processors and end markets for some of Wisconsin’s most common construction and demolition waste materials. To read the full article, visit http://www.wastecapwi.org/golivedirect. To use WasteCapDIRECT, visit www.wastecapdirect.org.

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 2. UPCOMING CONFERENCES / GRANTS / JOB OPENINGS
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2008 SE2 Conference request for presenters
The 2008 Sustainability and Energy Efficiency Leadership Conference: Increasing Demand has been scheduled for September 17 at the Country Springs Hotel in Pewaukee. The proposal should be no more than 300 words in length and sent to "info@wgba.org" no later than 4 p.m. on Friday, May 23. For more information, visit http://www.wgba.org/artman/publish/article_381.shtml.

Leadership and Environmental Sustainability: Green Pathways to Prosperity
May 22 at The University Club of Milwaukee (924 E. Wells St., Milwaukee)
 A morning and afternoon session are available. While environmental sustainability has become a significant political and social issue, few have been as devoted, or successful, as speaker Majora Carter. Carter founded Sustainable South Bronx in 2001 to simultaneously alleviate poverty, improve the environment, and reduce public health costs. An afternoon session will be lead by the executive director of Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Michael Brune. His organization uses a unique blend of boardroom negotiation and targeted grassroots pressure to push the world’s largest corporations to embrace ethical ecological practices. For more information, visit http://leadershipcenter.stritch.edu.

Paper Recycling Conference and Trade Show
June 22 – 24 in Rosemont, Illinois
 The Paper Recycling Conference & Trade Show – now in its ninth year – offers paper stock dealers, consumers, mill representatives and equipment and service providers involved in the paper recycling industry the opportunity to network with leading industry consultants and entrepreneurs from across the globe. For more information, visit http://www.paperrecyclingconference.com/.

Save the date! Third Annual WasteCap Wisconsin R3 Awards
October 9 at Schlitz Audubon Nature Center, Milwaukee
 Professionals and businesses working to reduce, reuse and recycle commercial debris will be honored at the third annual R3 Awards on October 9th at Schlitz Audubon Nature Center. The highlight of the night will be the presentation of the Big Diverter award recognizing the construction and/or demolition project with the highest recycling rate. More details coming soon. To read about past R3 Awards, visit www.wastecapwi.org/media.

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 3. RECYCLING NEWS THAT AFFECTS YOU
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CONSTRUCTION / DEMOLITION

Michigan company uses recycled glass in concrete
Source: Recycling Today
 A Grand Rapids, Mich.-company has plans to combine glass recycling and concrete block production, according to a report in the Business Review of Western Michigan (Grand Rapids, Mich.). EPI Concrete Products uses pulverized glass in place of sand in its mix for concrete blocks. According to the report, 80 percent of the company’s block content is recycled material, which helps contractors who use it earn Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building credits. To read the full article, visit http://www.recyclingtoday.com/news/news.asp?ID=13070&SubCatID=19&CatID=7.

Global demand for cement and drywall to increase
Source: Construction & Demolition Recycling Magazine
 Global demand for cement and drywall is forecast to grow through 2012, according to a report by the Cleveland-based market research firm the Freedonia Group. According to the report, demand for cement is forecast to grow 5.3 percent per year through 2012. Gains will be driven by strong increases in cement consumption in developing countries. Additionally, a rebound in cement demand in industrialized markets, such as the U.S., Japan and Germany, will further boost advances. To read the full article, visit http://www.cdrecycler.com/news/news.asp?ID=3784.

COMPUTER / ELECTRONICS RECYCLING

Computer reuse key to saving energy
Source: American Recycler
 Redemtech revealed that raising reuse rates of desktop and laptop business computers in the United States to the level of the rest of the world would: (1)Save enough energy to power every home in Phoenix, Arizona, America’s fifth largest city, for a year (653,000 households), (2) Reduce carbon emissions by the equivalent of that produced by 462,000 passenger cars in a year, (3) Reduce solid waste equal to the weight of 2,490,000 bricks. To read the full article, visit http://www.americanrecycler.com/0508/computer.shtml.

Sam’s Club launches online electronics recycling program
Source: Recycling Today
 N.E.W. Customer Service Companies, Inc. announces that Sam’s Club has launched ecoNEW, its new online electronics recycling service designed to provide a mail-in service for old and obsolete electronics. Through the service, members of Sam’s Club can trade in older electronics for a gift card which is determined by a recycle trade-in value generated through the website. To read the full article, visit http://www.recyclingtoday.com/news/news.asp?ID=13072&SubCatID=32&CatID=8.

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 4. USEFUL TOOLS / RESOURCES ON RECYCLING
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OfficeMax unveils line of TerraCycle's made-from-waste office products
Source: GreenBiz.com
The pencil cases in OfficeMax's newest retail offerings may look surprisingly familiar, even nostalgic to some shoppers. The cases are made from discarded containers of Capri Sun, the juice pouch more frequently seen on playgrounds than on end-caps. The cases are just one of the new products for sale at OfficeMax stores nationwide created by TerraCycle, a company making innovative products from "waste-stream" materials like juice packages, plastic bottles and e-waste. Among the other products that OfficeMax announced it would carry include binders made from 100 percent reused cardboard, trash cans made from recycled e-waste plastic, and non-toxic cleaning products packaged in old soda bottles. To read the full article, visit http://greenbiz.com/news/2008/05/02/officemax-unveils-terracycle-recycled-office-products.

Truckers roll out sustainability plan
Source: GreenBiz
The American Trucking Associations rolled out a sustainability program Thursday aimed at scaling back fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The “Trucks Deliver a Cleaner Tomorrow” program offers six recommendations that will help the industry shrink its carbon footprint and preserve its livelihood during a time of skyrocketing fuel prices. In conjunction with the announcement, Schneider National Inc., which bills itself as the country’s largest truckload carrier, signaled its intent to reduce its fleet speed to 60 miles per hour. To read the full article, visit http://www.greenbiz.com/news/2008/05/09/truckers-roll-out-sustainability-plan.

Recycling in America — plenty of room for improvement
Source: American Recycler
While the collection of solid waste across the United States is uniform, the collection of recyclables is not and there is room for dramatic improvement, says Pete Grogan, manager, Market Development for Containerboard and Recycling for Weyerhaeuser Company. Grogan, a long-time advocate of recycling, stresses that states lagging behind in recycling must join those that have aggressive and effective recycling programs to help protect the environment, reduce solid waste management costs and to establish a recycling infrastructure that will create jobs and generate government revenue. To read the full article, visit http://www.americanrecycler.com/0508/recycling.shtml.

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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. You can view a collection of WasteCap Wisconsin's archived bulletins at http://www.wastecapwi.org/bulletin_archive.htm. To unsubscribe, send an email to wastecap@wastecapwi.org with "unsubscribe" in the subject line. If you have been forwarded this email and would like to subscribe directly, send an email to wastecap@wastecapwi.org with "subscribe" in the subject line.

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Shannon Delaney, Communications Director & WasteCap Wisconsin Bulletin Editor
 WasteCap Wisconsin
www.wastecapwi.org