Kick Off Event October 9, 2009

OC GREEN JOB Partners Orange County WIB Santa Ana WIB Anaheim WIB Taller San Jose Orange County Conservation Corp Vital Link Earth Resource Foundation Camp Fire USA Orange County Business Council Coastline Community College District Saddleback Community College District

Career Exploration Programs Experiential Activities Workforce Preparation Training

ERF High School Clubs Campaign Against the Plastic Plague Zero Waste Business, Schools and Communities Earth Resource Foundation “Environmental Education through Action!”

Life Skills and Workforce Preparation Skills California Green Job Corps Program Overview Environmental Stewardship Career Exploration Community Service Technical Skills Training Civic Responsibility Zero Waste

Environmental Stewardship What is Zero Waste? State Mandates Green Job Creation

GOING BEYOND RECYCLING Reduce Reuse Recycle = Zero Waste

Definition of Zero Waste* Zero Waste is a goal that is both pragmatic and visionary, to guide people to emulate sustainable natural cycles, where all discarded materials are resources for others to use. Zero Waste means designing and managing products and processes to reduce the volume and toxicity of waste and materials, conserve and recover all resources, and not burn or bury them. Implementing Zero Waste will eliminate all discharges to land, water or air that may be a threat to planetary, human, animal or plant health. *

State Mandates AB32 State Climate Change –Zero Waste Included in Bill –Recycling and Composting all our Materials Equals Eliminating all California Car Exhaust Mandatory Commercial Recycling –Only 7% of Commercial Waste is Recycled –California Integrated Waste Management Currently Developing Mandatory Recycling Bill

Provide Incentives Before Ban or Mandate Eliminate Waste by Designing Out of Products and Processes Foster Sustainable and Green Businesses Retailers Take Back Difficult to Recycle Materials Resource Recovery Park Producer Responsibility Expand City Outreach & Technical Assistance and Lead by Example Jobs from Design & Discards © Copyright Eco-Cycle, 2004 with text modifications by permission. Empowered Consumer The Zero Waste Economy Designing a Full-Cycle system – Upstream and Downstream

Green Jobs through Zero Waste Policies Job Opportunities –10,000 tons of Solid Waste* = Landfill - 1 job –Composting = 4 jobs –Recycling = 10 jobs –Reuse = 75 to 250 jobs Buy green goods and services Recycling Industry = Size of Auto Industry * Source:

Career Exploration Job site tours Guest speakers Green Jobs Career Day

Technical Skills Training Training Programs Community College Regional Occupational Programs Community Organizations Faith Based Training Organizations Zero Waste Integration Zero Waste audit skills

Workforce Preparation Skills Life skills Soft skills Professionalism Work ethic Interview skills Resume building

Community Service Zero Waste Projects –In school youth project Zero Waste Audit of School Presentation to School District –Out of school youth project Zero Waste Audits of Small to Medium Sized Businesses Development of Zero Waste Plans Presentation of Plans to Businesses

Zero Waste Businesses are Leading the Way (>90% Waste Diversion) Anheuser-Busch, Fairfield, CA Apple Computer, Elk Grove, CA Del Mar Fairgrounds Fetzer Vineyards Frankie’s Bohemian Café, SF Greens Restaurant, SF Hewlett-Packard, Roseville, CA Kean Coffee Mad River Brewery New Belgium Brewery, Fort Collins, CO NUMMI, Fremont, CA Pillsbury Playa Vista, LA, CA Point Loma University Ricoh Electronics, Inc San Diego Wild Animal Park Scoma’s Restaurant, SF Strauss Family Farms Toyota Vons-Safeway Xerox Corp Business in Blue Presented at ERF Zero in on Zero Business Conference

Identify Waste Waste Profiling Recipe for Success 7: Use of 5R Concept

Ricoh’s “Recipe for Success” = Total Participation Objectives Leadership Benchmarking Organization Project plan Training & Promotion Use of 5R Concept Verification Continuous Improvement

5R – Reduce Activity Supported by our Suppliers & Customers REDUCE Reduce Unnecessary Packaging Material  Packaging cost  Packaging time  Freight cost Reduction of:  Labor time for switching cans and cleaning leftover chemicals  Water usage  Packaging material cost Reduction of: 6 individual cases were put into a master carton… Chemical came in many small cans… …now in drums= …no more master carton = Packaging Optimization- Joint Effort

Partnership With Suppliers Green Procurement RETURNREUSERECYCLEREFUSEREDUCE Recipe for Success 7: Use of 5R Concept Reduce total cost within Supply Chain REDESIGNRESPECT

Civic Responsibility Introduction to public policy Identify and select a problem Research and collect data Define a policy based solution Present your recommendations Document the results

California Green Job Corps Benefiting our Youth Business and the Community