Residential Recycling Opportunities

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Residential Recycling Opportunities
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Residential Recycling Whats Available?

• Waste Management offers several ways to recycle
  in North Dakota
• Non-Traditional Recycling/Waste Handling
  Opportunities
• Ink Jet Cartridge Cell Phone Recycling
• Sharps Disposal
• LampTracker Fluorescent Bulb Recycling
• E-Cycling Electronics Recycling

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Residential Recycling Whats Available?

• Waste Management offers several ways to recycle
  in North Dakota
• Traditional Recycling Opportunities
• Drop Off Opportunities
• Curbside Opportunities

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Inkjet Cartridges Cell Phones
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Did You Know?

• 73 of all homes have inkjet printers
• The average household uses 4 cartridges per year
• 95 of all empty inkjets are thrown away
• That equals more than 1 million thrown in our
  landfills each day
• It is estimated over 100 million cell phones were
  taken out of service in 2004

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Cell Phone and Inkjet Recycling Program

• Waste Management has partnered with CORE
  Recycling for the recycling of inkjet and laser
  cartridges and cell phones. Items with value will
  be remanufactured, while items with no value will
  be recycled into raw materials for reuse in other
  products.

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Recycle By Mail The Solution
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Sharps Disposal
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Sharps Include

• Hypodermic needles and syringes
• Scalpel and razor blades
• Blood vials
• Lancets
• Microscope slides and cover slips

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The Problem

• Millions self-inject
• 3 billion needles generated annually
• Most disposed of improperly
• Children and public sector workers at risk

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Problem Health Risk

• 9 million legal selfinjectors (3 of population)
  in the U.S.
• 22.5 million households (8)
• 3 billion needles/yr outside health system
  annually
• For Your City estimate self injectors take 3
  of the total population, assume 1 syringe per day
  to give total annual syringes outside of
  healthcare

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Solutions - Limited Options

• Old EPA guideline sealed container in trash
• New EPA guideline remove from waste stream
• Drop box/collection sites
• Mail-back
• Syringe exchange programs
• At-home needle destruction
• EPA guideline sets state local policy

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EPA Brochure - Self-injectors
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The Solution

• The Sharps Disposal-by-MailTM System
• A partnership of Waste Management, Sharps
  Compliance and Becton Dickinson

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Fluorescent Bulb Recycling Lamp Tracker
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Fluorescent Bulb Recycling Lamp Tracker
Fluorescent lamps contain a small amount of
mercury and are regulated as a hazardous waste at
the Federal level. When lamps are broken during
handling and storage, they release mercury into
the room and put employees and residents at risk.
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Fluorescent Bulb Recycling Lamp Tracker
Step 1 Order WM LampTracker online at
www.wmlamptracker.com or 800-664-1434 Step
2 Pack your LampTracker box with bulbs.
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Fluorescent Bulb Recycling Lamp Tracker
Step 3 Ship with the prepaid shipping label to
Mercury Waste Solutions using FedEx or UPS Step
4 Track your shipment with the attached barcode

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Fluorescent Bulb Recycling Lamp Tracker
Step 5 Certify your Lamps were recycled with
your recycling certificate of compliance
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Waste Managements E-Cycling
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Waste Managements E-Cycling

• We make it easy for you to recycle electronics
  responsibly.
• Waste Management offers drop off sites throughout
  the United States. We have partnered with Sony
  for free drop off at our transfer stations and
  landfills.

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Waste Managements E-Cycling

• End of life equipment recycling
• Product reuse and resale
• Certified data destruction
• Collection events, mail back programs, drop
  offs
• eScrapTracker for tracking of loads and recycling
  certification

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Waste Managements E-Cycling

• Seeking partners for transfer and drop off
  facilities
• Current Drop Off locations in Grand Forks and
  Wahpeton, ND
• Proposed location in Bismarck, ND

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Waste Managements Residential Recycling
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Waste Managements Residential Recycling

• Waste Managements programs are custom-tailored
  to your needs.
• Recycling programs have to work for your
  community.
• Remember each community is unique.

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Waste Managements Residential Recycling

• Getting Residents to Participate
• Offer the opportunity to recycle.
• Establish your program for success.
• Volume based service.
• Education Education Education

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Waste Managements Residential Recycling

• Drop Off Facilities City Managed
• City provides a place for residents to bring
  material
• Material is prepared for market
• Program can be as comprehensive or as simple as
  you like.

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Waste Managements Residential Recycling

• Drop Off Facilities City Managed
• Liability issues
• Availability of hours
• Cost (Building, staffing, transportation)
• Revenue from material

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Waste Managements Residential Recycling

• Drop Off Facilities 3rd Party Managed
• 3rd Party provides a place for residents to bring
  material
• Material is prepared for market
• Who controls the program?

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Waste Managements Residential Recycling

• Drop Off Facilities 3rd Party Managed
• Liability issues
• Availability of hours
• Cost
• Partnership with Non-profit
• Partnership with Hauler or Processor (Maybe local
  vendor)

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Waste Managements Residential Recycling

• Measure Your Results
• Drop Off Facility - predict your success
• Benefits of partnerships with hauler/processor/non
  -profit organization
• Drop off program quantity is dependant on
  materials collected.

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Waste Managements Residential Recycling

• Measure Your Results (cont.)
• Determine your impact
• 1 Roll off of Cardboard Per Month. 2.5 tons
  removed from the waste stream
• Determine cost savings 2.5 tons 30 per ton
  disposal - 75.00 per month
• Measure entire program value
• Can you pull a garbage truck off the street by
  recycling? 75.00 per hour 8 hours 600.00
  per day
• Can overall labor be reduced? 1 driver 160.00
  per day 160.00 per day
• Greenhouse gases are reduced by pulling trucks
  off the street.

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Waste Managements Residential Recycling

• Curbside Recycling Opportunities
• Type of Programs Available
• Single Sort
• Dual Sort
• Frequency
• 1 time per month
• Every other week

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Waste Managements Residential Recycling

• Curbside Recycling Opportunities
• Considerations
• Program Cost
• Who Does Education?
• Resident Responsiveness to Program

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Waste Managements Residential Recycling

• Measure Your Results
• Curbside - predict your success
• Curbside Single Sort Programs produce a minimum
  of 15 pounds pr household per month of
  recyclables.
• Determine your impact
• 15 pounds 1000 households 15,000 pounds (7.5
  tons) removed from the waste stream
• Determine cost savings 7.5 tons 30 per ton
  disposal - 225.00 per month

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Waste Managements Residential Recycling

• Measure Your Results (cont.)
• Measure entire program value
• Can you pull a garbage truck off the street by
  recycling? 75.00 per hour 8 hours 600.00
  per day
• Can overall labor be reduced? 1 driver 160.00
  per day 160.00 per day
• Greenhouse gases are reduced by pulling trucks
  off the street.

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Waste Managements Residential Recycling

• Custom Tailored Programs
• Make it work for your community
• Resident Reception of Program
• Availability of Programs in your area
• Combined drop off curb side programs

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Waste Managements Residential Recycling

• Custom Tailored Programs
• Take your time in set up
• Make it right for your community
• Proper buy-in of policy-makers residents

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Waste Managements Residential Recycling

• Work with the experts
• Partner with processors/haulers/non-profits/other
  cities you meet here
• Chances are your program has been done
  successfully in another community. Learn from
  their success.
• Chances are your program has been done not so
  successfully in another community. Learn from
  their mistakes.

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Waste Management Contacts

• Jennefer Klennert
• Manager Municipal Community Relations
• 10050 Naples Street NE
• Blaine, MN 55449
• Phone [phone]
• E-Mail jklenner_at_wm.com
• Website www.wmnorthland.com