HEADLINES
UPCOMING MEETINGS AND TOURS
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Introduction to Recycling
Jobs In Recycling Workshop – Service Providers
Recycling Update
HOT OFF THE PRESS
SF Mayor Ed Lee backs plan to impose bag fee
Efforts To Recycle Single Use Plastic Grocery Bags Have Failed.
Latest Statistics Show Big Increase In US Film And Bag Recycling
CONTINUING EDUCATION
NCRA Jobs In Recycling – Government Article 2
PRESIDENT'S REPORT
LEGISLATIVE REPORT
Indoor Sport for Activists
CURRENT TOPICS
Peninsula Towns Compost More Than They Landfil
Auto Recyclers Challenged on Potentially Toxic Waste
1-800-GOT-JUNK?
MEMBERS CORNER
Boys & Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley Partners with USAgain
CALENDAR
INTERNAL REPORTS
Minutes of NCRA Annual Membership Meeting, January 19, 2012

CONTRIBUTORS
This month’s contributors are Arthur Robinson Boone, Jordan Figueiredo, David Tam, Jessica Hiller and Portia Sinnott. Teresa Bradley, chair of the Industry Support Services Committee, is responsible for tour and meeting locations. Please email  her suggestions any time of day or night.

The Newsletter Committee holds conference calls the last Thursday of most months from noon – 1pm. All welcome. Future topics include: Member Interviews, Material Investigations, Multi-Family Waste Reduction and Recycling, Zero Waste Grocery Stores and Cruise Ship Discard Management. Please forward article ideas and assignment requests on conception.

This is the February 2012 newsletter of the Northern California Recycling Association. Published monthly by the Newsletter Committee under the direction of Editor Portia M. Sinnott, it is available on the NCRA website or as a downloadable pdf. An abbreviated version with “Read More…” links is sent to members via email.

NCRA is a non-profit trade organization of recycling businesses, community groups, municipalities and individuals. We promote waste reduction, reuse, salvaging, recycling and composting as vital tools for resource and energy conservation and as cost-effective, environmentally sound methods of disposing of discarded materials. Founded in 1978, we have 175+ members, the majority of whom are located in Northern California. Please join - membership is $52 per year via PayPal.

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