WasteWise Climate Campaign
WasteWise recognizes the importance of addressing global climate
change and that waste prevention and recycling can play a significant
role in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Through WasteWise's
Climate Campaign, EPA is helping companies reduce their climate
footprints.
As a WasteWise member, you have exclusive access to some of the
Climate Campaign's resources. Listed below are some of the tools
and documents available to you. For additional information about
any of the following, please contact the WasteWise Helpline at (800)
EPA-WISE (372-9473) or WasteWise@icfi.com.
Climate Profile
One of the most useful tools that WasteWise provides its partners
is the Climate Profile. Every year, WasteWise develops these individualized
progress reports for all partners that submit annual data during
the reporting season. You can use this invaluable tool to educate
employees, management, and the general public on the positive climate
impacts of your WasteWise related efforts. The Climate Profile transforms
your waste reduction data into an easy-to understand format—reporting
GHG emission reductions achieved through your waste reduction activities.
For example, if you reported recycling 200,000 pounds of aluminum
cans, the Climate Profile will translate that activity into real
life equivalents such as "324 cars off the road for a year,"
"38,359 tree seedlings grown for 10 years," and "170,387
gallons of gasoline."
Getting the Most Out of Your Climate Profile
PDF (2 pages, 198 KB)
This document helps partners understand the information within the
Climate Profile, making you better equipped to explain your waste-related
GHG emissions reductions to management, employees, and the general
public.
Prioritizing Your Climate-Waste Activities
PDF (2 pages, 101 KB)
Want to target specific materials to reduce your GHG emissions?
WasteWise produced an informational fact sheet for its partners
to prioritize waste prevention and recycling efforts based on materials
that have the greatest GHG emission reduction potential.
Don't "Waste" Your Chance To Do Your Share—How
to Reduce Your Climate Footprint
PDF (16 pages, 1,567 KB)
This how-to guide will help you better understand the connection
between global climate change and waste—helping minimize climate
footprints through waste reduction. In addition, it explains how
to educate management, employees, and the general public about the
climate-waste connection and spreading the word about WasteWise-related
accomplishments.
Climate Toolkit
Looking for information on the climate-waste connection? The WasteWise
Climate Toolkit is available to WasteWise partners. The Climate
Toolkit is full of the WasteWise program's best climate tools, including:
Don't "Waste" Your Chance To Do Your Share—How to
Reduce Your Climate Footprint, Why Waste a Cool Planet video, the
WasteWise Update: Global Warming is a Waste, climate case studies,
the Climate Change and Waste resources folder, a sample press release,
and two magazine articles.
Order
the Climate Toolkit Online!
WasteWise
Bulletin - September/October 2002
PDF (4 pages, 210 KB)
This issue focuses on climate change and waste, the WasteWise Climate
Toolkit, EPA's WARM Calculator, Allergan, Inc., and more.
For additional tools and resources, please go to the Climate
and Waste Publications page on the WasteWise Web site.
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