What's New?

• NEW Press Release: The Home Depot Launches National CFL Bulb Recycling Initiative
  
  
  
• Ramsey County MN Commissioner Victoria Reinhardt is putting the attached resolution before National Association of Counties (NACo) at their annual meeting in mid July.  It would be especially helpful if you can let your county supervisors know this resolution is up for a vote so they can support it. 
  NEW NACo Resolution in Support of Extended Producer Responsibility Framework Approach
  NEW NACo Product Resolutions
  
  
  
• NEW CPSC in the News — Sacramento Bee story Inside Medicine: 'Green,' recycling don't always mesh
  

  By Dr. Michael Wilkes
  

  
  
  
• NEW CPSC presenting at Zero In on Zero Waste Business Conference, Thursday, June 26
  
  
  
• NEW Here is the latest on the three EPR bills CPSC is tracking:
  
  

  • AB 501 - Pre-filled Sharps
    

  • AB 1860 - Product Recall Safety and Protection Act of 2008
    

  • AB 2347 - Mercury Thermostat Collection Act of 2008
    
    

• NEW NWPSC/CPSC Joint Framework Principles for Product Stewardship Policy  
  Northwest Product Stewardship Stewardship Counci and CPSC jointly approved policy, approved 6/4/08
  
  
  
• NEW New York City adopts e-scrap recycling standards bill
  
  
  
• NEW Tools for Local Action in Support of EPR
  
  
  
• NEW Applying the Product Stewardship Framework for Residentially Generated Batteries and Lamps: Workshops hosted by Del Norte Solid Waste Management Authority and CPSC
  April 29 & 30, 2008, in Sacramento
  
  
  • San Francisco ABC News coverage of the April 30th workshop on fluorescent lamps
    Several presenters went on-camera, including CPSC Board Chair Rob D'Arcy, Rex Bell from PG&E, and Jen Dolin from OSRAM-Sylvania, talking about their consideration of aligning with their German parent company to collect and recycle lamps with help from other stakeholders.
    
    
  • Unrefined Project Ideas Summaries from Workshops
    • Residentially Generated Household Batteries
    • Residentially Generated Fluorescent Lamps
      
      
  • Workshop Agendas, Presentations, Speakers and Project Ideas
    
    
  • Sierra Club Guidelines for Selecting, Distributing and Recycling Environmentally-Preferable Light Bulbs During Mass Giveaways
    
    
    

Narrated by Betsy Rosenberg. Click on the link and the movie should automatically run in Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, or QuickTime.

A QuickTime version of this presentation for Apple computers is posted on the Product Policy Institute website -- along with the web video, The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard.