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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 98 08:37 WET From: FRIEDMAN.FRED@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV (Fred Friedman) Subject: Re: Recycling questionnaires (Vicki Roth)
March 24, 1998
Dear Vicki Roth,
Recycling questionnaires are ubiquitous. Virtually every program now in operation, once got started, expanded, quality controlled its operation, via a questionnaire of its clientelle or significant stakeholders. Four examples:
INFORM, Inc., 381 Park Avenue South, NY, NY 10016 has a Business Recycling Manual published in 1991, which is largely a self-auditing set of questionnaires.
At the remanufacturing end, Converting to Recycled Feedstocks: A Guide to Assisting Manufacturers by the Gildea Resource Center, Community Environmental Council, 930 Miramonte Drive, Santa Barbarta, CA 93109 (Contact: Jill Zachary, Josh Fox, Sigrid Wright), published in 12/96, operated on several questionnaires. It was funded through a grant from US EPA Region 9.
My article, Do We Practice What We Teach in the June, 1993 issue of Waste Age Magazine surveyed universities and colleges' recycling, source reduction and procurement practices.
Earthworm, Inc., 186 South St., Boston, MA 02111, conducted a 1989 survey of commercial waste management/recycling in the City of Boston based on a survey. Conducted in 1989, it still stands as one of the most useful microcosm studies of recycling potentials in a key, but often forgotten sector.
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