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Home My WebLink AboutMINUTES - 12191989 - IO.1 TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ......L .oma j _- Contra FROM: Costa INTERNAL OPERATIONS COMMITTEE nl �s -:�--- ,�¢ December 11, 1989 County ��., DATE: QST+couK�Ty, REPORT ON METHODS AND ACTIONS THE COUNTY CAN USE SUBJECT: TO STIMULATE THE DEVELOPMENT AND EXPANSION OF MANUFACTURING PLANTS THAT USE PLASTICS AND OTHER SECONDARY MATERIALS IN THEIR PRODUCTS SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION RECOV94FMATIONS 1. Request the Community Development Director to review SB 1322 (Chapter 1096, Statutes of 1989) and AB 1307 (Chapter 285 , Statutes of 1989) , both of which provide mechanisms to encourage the use of recycled materials in new products, outline ways in which Contra Costa County might take advantage of this new legislation, particularly in areas like North Richmond and the Oakley Redevelopment area, discuss the feasibility of using industrial development bonds with appropriate industries in the County and provide a report on this subject to the 1990 Internal Operations Committee by March 1, 1990 and for this purpose refer this item to the 1990 Internal Operations Committee. 2. Request the Community Development Director to bring the above legislation to the attention of the James River Company and discuss with them the feasibility of utilizing the legislation to make it economically attractive to locate a plastics recycling plant in Contra Costa County and report his findings to the 1990 Internal Operations Committee. 3 . Request the Community Development Director and Plastics Recycling Task Force to provide a report to the 1990 Internal Operations Committee by March 1, 1990 on the status of the pilot program being undertaken by McDonald' s restaurants to separate foam food packaging from other waste so that the foam can be recycled and on the status of efforts to establish polystyrene separation programs in school cafeterias. .GG CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: Ye_.§ES SIGNATURE: RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE APPROVE OTHER SIGNATURE(S): TOM POWERS SUNNE WRIGHT McPEAK c� ACTION OF BOARD ON Dpr eTp}jp Y l A 1 9 R 9 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER VOTE OF SUPERVISORS I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE X UNANIMOUS(ABSENT I ) AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN. / CC: ATTESTED County Administrator PHIL BATCHELOR,CLERK OF THE BOARD OF Community Development Director SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR Resource Recovery Specialist Deputy Director, Redev. Agency M382 (10/88) BY ,DEPUTY w' 4. Request the Community Development Director to work with Proctor and Gamble to select a date in May 1990 for County staff to visit Proctor and Gamble' s composting project in St. Cloud, Minnesota, advise the Board Members. of the date and invite their participation in a tour of the plant. If possible, invite key members of the Plastics Recycling Task Force to join the Board Members and staff on this tour. 5. Remove this item as a referral to our Committee. BACKGROUND: On November 7 , 1989 the Board received and referred to our Committee a letter from Proctor and Gamble inviting the Board Members and staff to tour Proctor and Gamble' s composting facility in St. Cloud, Minnesota. On September 19, 1989 the Board of Supervisors referred to the Plastics Recycling Task Force the question of what the County could do to stimulate the development and expansion of manufacturing plants that use waste plastics and other secondary materials. On December 11, 1989 our Committee considered the attached report from our Resource Recovery Specialist and formulated the above recommendations. We are very excited about the possibility of using the two pieces of new legislation as a method of stimulating additional plastics recycling in the County and the use of recycled materials in the manufacturing of additional products. The attached report includes a brief description of these two pieces of legislation. We are asking that Community Development staff review these two pieces of legislation, consider areas of the County in which it would be feasible to establish Development Zones, discuss the legislation with industry representatives such as the James River Company, Dow, Richmond Sanitary Service and return to the 1990 Internal Operations Committee with a report by March 1, 1990 . CONTRA COSTA COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT DATE: December 5, 1989 TO: Internal Operations Committee Tom Powers, Chair Sunne McPeak FROM: Sheila Cogan Resource Recovery Specialist SUBJECT: Actions to Stimulate Development and Expansion of Manufacturing Plants That Use Waste Plastic and Other Secondary Materials In the planning of any recycling program, markets are needed. One of the major criticisms of government initiatives to increase recycling and reduce waste is that these efforts are not matched by similar incentives to improve the markets for the newly recovered recyclables. In order for the recycling process to be complete, materials must not only be collected but also be reused in the manufacture of new products. In California the markets for waste plastic collected from post-consumer sources are available, but generally poor and unreliable. With the exception of the PET soft drink container, markets have not yet developed into viable businesses with sufficient capacity to absorb all of the county's waste plastic. In response to this need, the Plastics Recycling Task Force has formed a subcommittee on market development, chaired by Sil Garaventa, Jr. of Concord Disposal, and co-chaired by Susan Kattchee, Recycling Manager for the City of El Cerrito. The committee has undertaken a number of tasks. They are exploring (1) the current market for plastics and prices, (2) the future market for plastics and prices, and are planning to issue a report on major processors of plastics. A second ad hoc subcommittee on polystyrene plastic has also been formed, chaired by John Marshall of Dow Chemical. Three model polystyrene separation programs are being planned. 1. Eight McDonald's restaurants located in central and west county are considering a pilot program to separate foam food packaging from other waste this spring. These represent half of the McDonald's in the County. 2. Dow Chemical has assigned a new staff person to the task of working with student leaders, parent groups and school administrators to establish polystyrene separation programs in school cafeterias. Model programs have been in operation on the East Coast for many months. It is intended that similar programs may be in operation- in schools in Contra Costa County by the next school year. 3. The ad hoc polystyrene committee has also identified two businesses which are willing to separate and recycle foam from other packaging materials at Bishop Ranch. It is expected that collection of these packaging materials will begin in early 1990. Two members--of the Task Force, John Lafountain, President of Bay Polymer, and Dick Gambel, representating James River Handi-Kup, announced on November 21, 1989, plans to form a joint venture to construct a polystyrene processing line at the Bay Polymer plant in Fremont. This action will provide the only such market opportunity for post-consumer polystyrene in the region. Collection service for the separated materials is not yet confirmed. Recent State Actions With Local Market Development Impact Senate Bill 1322, signed on September 29, 1989, established a comprehensive set of state programs designed to encourage market development for recycled materials and create a California Recycling Markets Development Commission to review and to promote such development. The bill .also creates Recycling Market Development. Zones with regulatory and fiscal incentives to attract private recycling investment. Zones will be proposed by local agencies based on guidelines to be adopted by the California Integrated Waste Management Board. Assembly Bill 1307 was amended to authorize the issuance of industrial development revenue bonds by industrial development authorities to encourage private enterprise to acquire property which is suitable for manufacturing, industrial parks, and energy development. This bill now includes in those activities or uses processing or manufacturing of recycled or reused products and materials by these facilities. Recommendations The Board of Supervisors may take several actions to stimulate development and expansion of manufacturing plants that use wastse plastic and other secondary materials in the County. 1. Streamline the development approval process. 2. Consider credits against development fees for eligible recycling facilities. 3. Designate one or more Recycling Market Development Zones in the county. 4. Consider the use of industrial development revenue bonds for the purpose of encouraging the assembling, fabricating, manufacturing, processing or warehousing of products . manufactured with recycled materials. Bond revenues may also be used for research and development activities relating to new products with recycled content including professional, administra- tive and scientific office and laboratory activities or uses. H2/action.sc J