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Just one light bulb Make a difference Save a buck So does a can!

Just one light bulb Make a difference Save a buck So does a can!. Key Messages. Key Messages: Recycling strengthens the environment through natural resource conservation, energy savings and greenhouse gas reduction

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Just one light bulb Make a difference Save a buck So does a can!

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  1. Just one light bulbMake a differenceSave a buck So does a can!

  2. Key Messages Key Messages: • Recycling strengthens the environment through natural resource conservation, energy savings and greenhouse gas reduction • Recycling strengthens the economy by creating jobs, using vendors and manufacturing products • Recycling strengthens communities

  3. Recycling Is Big Business In the Southeast EPA Region 4 Factsheet • EPA Headquarters • EPA Region 4 (SE) • States • Industry Fundamental changes to how we view commodities Walmart Sustainable Driver: “Realization by 2015 – it will not be a matter of price but of availability”

  4. Can Create the Local Solutions Local governments (bases) influence all major sources of global warming pollution Energy Solid Waste Transportation

  5. Life-Cycle Approach

  6. Recycling Energy Savings

  7. Recycling GHG Benefits Attributable to Energy Savings (Recycling vs. Landfilling) 120% 100% 80% 60% 40% 20% 0% -20% PCs PET MDF Glass HDPE LDPE Carpet Fly Ash Textbooks Aggregate Steel Cans Newspaper Dim Lumber Office Paper Phonebooks Copper Wire Aluminum Cans Corr. Cardboard Mag/3rd Cl. Mail GHG vs. Energy Savings

  8. Benefits of MSW Recycling(2005 recycling rate of 32%) • Avoided Greenhouse Gas emissions of 183 million metric tons of CO2e (49 million metric tons of Carbon equivalent) http://epa.gov/climatechange/wycd/waste/calculators/Warm_home.html • equivalent to the emissions from: • 930,000 railcars of coal burned, or • annual electricity use by 23.5 million households http://www.usctcgateway.net/tool/ • equivalent to the annual carbon storage of more than 152 million acres of pine or fir forest. http://www.usctcgateway.net/tool/

  9. Benefits of MSW Recycling(2005 recycling rate of 32%) • Energy benefit of about 1.4 quadrillion BTUs http://epa.gov/climatechange/wycd/waste/calculators/Warm_home.html • equivalent to the energy used by: • more than 17 million cars on the road for a year • approximately 240 million barrels of oil • 1.4 quadrillion BTUs represents 56 power plants that we didn’t have to build: • Air emissions – particulates, Hg, childhood asthma • Water impacts – intake impacts, thermal effluents • Consequences of coal mining - acid mine drainage, flooding, transportation issues • Coal combustion by-products (fly ash) • Construction money we could have spent on something else

  10. Climate Connection KCMO Protection Plan

  11. WasteWise Communities Umbrella • RCC Goal: Increase national recycling rate of MSW to 35%. • To meet this goal, EPA is working with Partners & Stakeholders through existing and new projects. PAYT

  12. Tools: WARM Waste Reduction Model • Assess GHG and energy impacts of waste reductionactivities • Accepts user-specific inputs and provides individualized results • Available onlinehttp://epa.gov/climatechange/wycd/waste/index.html (under “TOOLS”)

  13. Aluminum Cans Branches Corrugated Cardboard Dimensional Lumber Food Scraps Glass Grass HDPE LDPE Leaves Magazines Medium Density Fiberboard Newspaper Office Paper PET Phonebooks Steel Cans Textbooks Yard Trimmings Tools: WARM Emission factors developed for: • Source reduction, recycling, composting, combustion, and landfilling • 26 material types and 6 categories of mixed materials (paper, metals, plastics, organics, MSW, and recyclables); Potential to develop more packaging types • New: • Brick • Carpet • Concrete • Copper • Fly Ash • PCs • Tires

  14. Recycled Content Tool (ReCon) Available online http://epa.gov/climatechange/wycd/waste/tools.html Estimates GHG and energy benefits of increasing recycled content Accepts user-specific inputs and provides individualized results Tools: ReCon

  15. Tools: Durable Goods Calculator • Assess GHG emissions benefits of different disposal methods for 14 durable goods (i.e., refrigerators, washers, dryers, PCs, autos, TVs, etc.) • Accepts user-specific inputs and provides individualized results • Available in Microsoft Excel version • Available onlinehttp://epa.gov/climatechange/wycd/waste/index.html (under “TOOLS”)

  16. Recycling makes a real, quantifiable and sustainable impact.

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