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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 05181993 - MR.2 PRESENTATION BEFORE THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS 1. Date of Board Meeting: May 18, 1993 Time:Noon C 2. Who will introduce the subject of the presentation? Julie Fisher or Supervisor Torlakson 3. Will the Board Chair be asked to make the presentation? Yes 4. Will other Board Members be asked to participate? Yes, they will give out several awards each. Generally they will be to winners who are from their district. .5. How long will the presentation take? Approximately 30 minutes. 6. Outline the procedure or format of the presentation. The Awards presentation will be a part of the Grand Opening Ceremony for the County Government Recycling Center. After the Board finishes the hearings that they have scheduled for 11:00 am, they will meet at the County Government Recycling Center at 220. Glacier Drive in Martinez. Lunch will be provided for them there. CCTV will be there to tape the presentations for later viewing. A. Supervisor Torlakson will preside over the ribbon cutting ceremony, that will open the Recycling Center. B. After the dignitaries have given their speeches, Board members will gather inside the recycling center to give out the awards. C. Each Supervisors will receive several framed certificates to which will be attached information about each winner. The winners will be recognized in a designated order. D. When presenting the video awards, the two videos will be shown (they are only 30 seconds long each) . A TV will be installed in the recycling center for this purpose. E. Guided tours of the recycling center will be given by the Recycling Attendants, to 'anyone interested. F. Tours through the Center will end at the location where the refreshments will be served. There should be a fairly good sized group attending. Five schools are scheduled to ,receive awards. 7. Attached is a full description of all of the winners. 8. Please contact me if there are any questions. Julie Fisher Community Development 646-4198 Date 4%4nat r evv�wwe County Depa ment 646-4198 CONTRA COSTA COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT TO: Board of Supervisors May 8, 1993 FROM: Julie Fisher Recycling Planner RE: Fourth Annual Recycling and Source Reduction Awards The winners of the 4th Annual Recycling Awards, as chosen by a committee with representatives from Contra Costa Council,- Northern California Recycling Association, Office of Education, Board of Supervisors, and the Mayors Conference. ♦ OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT Students Tidying-up Our Planet (STOP) Antioch Junior High School • SOURCE REDUCTION A WARDS • J INDIVIDUAL BUSINESS/COMMERCIAL Hank Snavely West County Times/ Martinez Richmond Sanitary Service COMMUNITY/ORGANIZATION SCHOOL/SCHOOL DISTRICT Books for the Barrios The Athenian School Walnut Creek Danville • RECYCLING AWARDS • INDIVIDUAL BUSINESS/COMMERCIAL Kerry McCann C& H Sugar Pleasant Hill Crockett COMMUNITY/ORGANIZATION SCHOOL/SCHOOL DISTRICT Boy Scout Troop 11484 Club P.O.W.E.R. Clayton Pittsburg High School • RECYCLED PRODUCT MANUFACTURER • Gaylord Container Corporation Antioch • STUDENT VIDEO CONTEST • PERFORMER CATEGORY PRODUCER CATEGORY "Don't Waste" "Riverview Recycles" Crossroads High School Riverview Middle School Concord Pittsburg OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT Students Tidying-up Our Planet (STOP) Antioch Junior High School Contact: Linda Lingenfelter/Ann Moriarty, 706-5316 For the last two years the Antioch Junior High School STOP Club has been the most successful student club at the school. It has given students a positive goal, and encouraged them to be dedicated to a cause with which they can all identify. STOP has sponsored major environmental events within their school and throughout the school district. An Education skit, called "Environmental Do's and Dont's, " was presented at several elementary schools. STOP worked hard to design and develop the appropriate sets and props to make children interested in taking an active role in saving the environment. This year, STOP sponsored a school wide Eco-Faire, with booths that featured subjects such as recycling, ozone depletion, endangered species, and water pollution. STOP worked with the science teachers to incorporate the Faire into the day's curriculum so that they were able to reach almost every student in the school. STOP also sponsors the campus aluminum and paper recycling programs, has done cleanup and painting at Hillcrest Park which they have , adopted, sponsored fund raiser to adopt a section of rainforest and an animal at the San Francisco Zoo. They also participated in the coastal cleanup of the Antioch Marina. All STOP members participated in a leadership training workshop given by the California Energy Extension Service, learning persuasive skills that helps them get their message across. STOP received the Extension Service's recognition award in 1992 , which is given to a student group that develops a project promoting energy education. SOURCE .REDUCTION Individual: Hank Snavely Contact: 370-0565 Hank Snavely has dedicated his life to source reduction and recycling. He has been an active member of recycling organizations and has established a career in the solid waste and recycling industries. One of Hank's first source reduction activities was collecting scrap wood from newly built homes to be used for farm buildings. The entire third story of his home is constructed of salvaged wood, while the rest was remodeled using beams, windows, and doors salvaged from Mare and Treasure Islands barracks that were being demolished. Hank has also fully supported Sonya, his . wife, in establishing a children's consignment store, Noodles for Kids, in Martinez for used clothing, toys, etc. The store was remodeled with the use of discarded wood and other materials. Hank is also a long time backyard composter and even composts unusable wood pieces after chipping them. Hank benefits from the local library because it means he doesn't need to subscribe to a newspaper. A 1966 Volvo is Hank's means of transportation, he keeps it in running condition with parts from the Martinez Auto Dismantlers. As one of his friends said, "If he can't get it used, Hank probably doesn't get it. " Community/Organization: Books for the Barrios Contact: Nancy or Dan Harrington, 687-7701 For the past three years Books for the Barrios has involved students, school districts and individuals in a nation-wide campaign to recycle educational materials. As a result, over one million disadvantaged children in the deprived remote area public schools of the Republic of the Philippines have been afforded the priceless gift of a quality educational experience. Youths from kindergarten to college have gained a sense of environmental citizenship, moral values and enhanced self-esteem by working hard for the ecology of the human spirit, by participation in this "project of the heart. " Numerous school classes have experienced working field trips to the Books for the Barrios production facility. School district officials have saved financially by donating their discarded educational materials to the project, rather than paying to have them landfilled. Over four hundred tons of precious educational resources have been diverted from local landfills. An average of 10, 000 struggling but eager students have been empowered each , week for three years by being able to read books that the project has provided. The project continues to succeed through the dedication of its founders, Dan and Nancy Stowe Harrington and its volunteer board of directors. **Additionally, the County Government Recycling Center is working with the Books for the Barrios program by donating books that are discarded from County libraries. Business/commercial: West County Times & Richmond Sanitary Service Contact: Joel Corona, 262-1664 The recycling and source reduction curriculum developed by the West County Times (WCT) and Richmond Sanitary Service (RSS) is designed to inspire and educate primary grade students in West Contra Costa County about local recycling and solid waste issues. Because RSS was interested in providing West County teachers with a recycling and source reduction curriculum, they contacted the West County Times and its Newspapers In Education (NIE) program. Together, with two teachers from Adams Middle School, they developed the Where is 'Away' When You Throw It Away school curriculum. The program is unique because it concentrates on local rather than global issues., was developed by local teachers and combines social studies, language arts, math, science, geography and art with the WCT Newspapers in Education program. It also demonstrates how businesses from unrelated industries can combine their talents and develop a product that benefits the youth of the community. School/School District: The Athenian School Contact: Lisa Gross, 837-5375 The Athenian School takes pride in being a strong community. Part of being a healthy community is to have a clean home - their campus. As part of their required curriculum, students take a 26 day low-impact camping course, the Athenian Wilderness Experience (AWE) . AWE teaches students what it is like to live in harmony with nature, and that it is important to not disrupt its balance. As a result, the community has decided to reduce, reuse and recycle as much as possible. The school built bins to recycle bottles and cans, which is monitored by the freshman class with the aid of some faculty members. For the Athenian community it has become "most uncool" to' throw away can or bottles. The kitchen also recycles cardboard and glass and a paper recycling system is being established which will include mixed paper as well as white. They will be further reducing their impact on the environment by purchasing recycled copy paper. To complete their recycling program, they are researching the composting of their food wastes. l RECYCLING Individual: Kerry McCann Contact: Kerry McCann, 689-5592 Kerry McCann wanted hands-on experience working in the recycling field, so she volunteered to organize the City of El Cerrito's school paper recycling program. Working with the City of E1 Cerrito's Recycling Center and the Soroptimists of E1 Cerrito, she was able to successfully implement a recycling program at all thirteen public and private schools. Establishing the program required meeting with each of the schools, identifying locations for the recycling carts, designing promotional materials, distribution of the recycling carts, and coordinating the pick-up schedule with the school staff and the Recycling Center. She also collected a small library of video tapes and educational materials. Positive reviews have been pouring in from the schools, as well as full carts of paper-- probably the most accurate barometer of the success of this program. It was Kerry McCann's enthusiasm and tenacity which. brought the E1 Cerrito School Paper Recycling Program to fruition. Business/Commercial: C&H Sugar, Crockett Contact: Fred Sammis, 787-4383 C&H Sugar Company takes 'pride in its active role in recycling and to be well on its way toward reaching Contra Costa County's goal of reducing landfill of solid waste by 25% by 1995. They were able to reduce the number of bins going to the landfill from 702 boxes in 1991 to 542 boxes in 1992, a reduction of nearly 23%. Programs for recycling metal, scrap paper generated in packaging and shipping, and computer paper have been in place for several years. In 1992, C&H added recycling programs for wood scraps and stubs of packaging material rolls, including the core. Additionally wood pallets in need of repair are now being sent to a company for repair and reuse. 0 School/School District: Pittsburg High School - Club P.O.W.E.R. (Protecting Our Wildlife, Environment & Resources) Contact: Dan Hanel, 439-8261 Club P.O.W.E.R. is a student organization at Pittsburg High School whose members have repeatedly demonstrated a genuine and sincere commitment to the betterment of their school, their community, and the world in which they live. By meeting during their lunch period and working outside of regular school hours for the past 3 years, the students have succeeded in implementing a number of projects that not only reduce and recycle waste, but also instill an environmental awareness in their classmates and the community at large. At , Pittsburg High, they have established and maintained a white paper recycling program for 3 years, and raise money by selling reusable lunch bags. They have volunteered as part of Coastal Clean-Up Day, had a booth at the Contra Costa Earth Day Festival, helped staff the City of Pittsburg's Recycling Booth at the annual Seafood Festival, and participated in Pittsburg's Storm Drain Stencilling Project. Community/Neighborhood: Boy Scout Troop #484, Clayton Contact: Dave Dawson, Scout Master 827-9974 Boy Scout Troop #484 volunteered to help the City of Clayton recycle Christmas Trees for the 1992/93 holiday season. All city residents were notified by flyer through the City newsletter, that they would be able to have their trees collected on Saturday, January 2, 1993 . The Troop, which progressed from one neighborhood to another, collected 850 trees. The trees were then brought to a central location, off-loaded by the Troop, and chipped by Clayton Public Works' employees. The success of the program was directly due to the unflagging endeavors of the Boy Scouts and their leaders. The City is looking forward to working with Boy Scout Troop #484 on even bigger recycling program for Christmas 1993 . RECYCLED PRODUCTS MANUFACTURER: Gaylord Container Corporation Contact: Joe Escobar, 779-3239 Gaylord Container's Antioch Paper Mill is California's largest recycled paper manufacturer, using over 1, 100 tons per day of recovered corrugated containers (commonly known as cardboard) to make Kraft Linerboard. Cardboard is collected from sources such as retail stores and recycling centers, shipped to Gaylord in trainloads or truckloads, And then processed into new paper. Total yearly consumption of cardboard is over 360, 000 tons, enough to save 1, 188, 000 cubic yards of landfill space. Since 1975, the Antioch mill has been using primarily post-consumer corrugated containers, and in 1991 went to 100% post-consumer. Gaylord has expanded from using 500 tons per day in 1975 to its current usage of over 1, 100 tons per day of old corrugated containers (OCC) . Gaylord employs over 250 local people at its Antioch mill, generating over 13 million dollars in payroll. 'In addition, nearly 3 million dollars in, property and sales tax are generated yearly. Recently, as a good neighbor, Gaylord donated' the use of 15 acres to the City of Antioch for a new ballfield. Through the Contribution Committee, it has made numerous donations to local charitable organizations. In addition to being the largest paper recycler in California, Gaylord also operates a large electric co-generation facility which produces steam for their process and power to operate their plant. Any additional electricity is sold to PG&E. STUDENT VIDEO Contra Costa County sponsored a Student Video Contest, in which students, either as performers or producers entered 30 second public service announcements with recycling and source reduction as the theme. Winners receive $200 donated to their school. The PSAs will be shown on Contra Costa Television, which is seen on area community access channels every Monday PERFORMER: Don't Waste, Crossroads High School, Concord Contact: Wendy Hershey, 689-6852 The Crossroads High School offers a program for pregnant teens and young mothers. Because the students are expecting or already have children of their own, many of them take a greater interest in matters of ecology,, particularly defending the earth for future generations, than their non-parent counterparts. The students were involved in all aspects of the making of Don't Waste. They wrote, made props and graphics, performed and taped the 30 second spot. = Working together to create a meaningful video supported their PRODUCER: Riverview Recycles, Riverview Recycling Club, Riverview Middle School, West Pittsburg Contact: Ms. Hope, 458-3216 The Recycling Club at Riverview Middle School thinks that recycling can be fun when you work together. Recycling started at the school 2 years ago with the milk and juice containers. It has expanded to include polystyrene lunch trays, mixed paper, cardboard', tin cans, plastic bottles, and aluminum cans. Currently the club has 50 members, and has sponsored several projects, including two Earth Day poster contests. The students taped all of the interviews with students and scenes of recycling in action. They then decided what scenes they wanted incorporated into the video. jf8:awards93 .win