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2001 to Present: Administrator Price Disposal Kern County Refuse & Recycling Hauler

Metropolitan Recycling LLC – MRF Operations 2010 to Present: Chairman Greater Bakersfield Green Expo

High School Recycled Material Art Competition 2013 to Present: Kern County High School District

CTE Committee Chairman 2013 to Present: Keep California Beautiful Board President

Keep America Beautiful National Awards Committee 2015 Recipient of Presidential Life Time Achievement

Award for Volunteer Service

3 Specifics Educate Engage Encourage

3 Results Reduce Recognize Reward

State of California Mandates

AB 341 – Commercial Recycling AB 1826 – Food & Organic Waste

Recycling

K-12 Recycling Challenge Goals 1500 Schools Participating by 2020

CalRecycle Grant for 2017 & 2018 Proposal to place 25,000 Classroom Recycling

Containers in Schools who commit to participate in K-12 Recycling Challenge for 2017 & 2018

at No Charge to the schools

2016 Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Awards

Green Ca Schools .org

K-12 Webinar Dates December 7th 2016 – 10am December 8th 2016 – 2pm January 11th 2017 – 10am January 12th 2017 – 2pm February 8th 2017 – 10am February 9th 2017 – 2pm

Keep California Beautiful Recycling Competition for all California K-12 Schools

9 Targeted Items: 1. Paper (magazines, books, white and mixed paper) 2. Cardboard 3. CRV Beverage Containers (bottles, cans, glass) 4. Metal Cans: All Tin & Bi-Metal cans collected from food service

areas 5. Foam Lunch Trays 6. Paper Lunch Trays 7. Milk and Juice Cartons 8. Food Service Organics (Compost) 9. Mixed Recyclables Totals

All item categories are given both a

Per Capita & Weight total $18,000 in Cash Awards - Recognizing 54 schools

CRV Beverage Containers

Arvin High School – Link Crew

Bridgeport Elementary School

This is a small school in the Eastern Sierra district that has only 57 students. They have no service in the area so a teacher drives all of the recyclables 40

miles to a drop off location.

Cafeteria Diversion

Event Photos

Yerba Beuna

Oliver Wendall Holmes

K-12 Recycling Challenge Results 2015 – 120 schools register – 80 participate

$12,000 cash awarded to a total of 28 schools 2016 – 320 schools register – 268 participate

$18,000 awarded to a total of 58 schools 335% increase in one year of school participating

California is the state with most schools participating in Keep America Beautiful Recycle Bowl in 2016

California Resource and Recovery Association 2015 Outstanding Recycling Program Award

Related Events

America Recycles Day 75% by 2020

Recycle-Bowl How Will You?

Invite schools in your community to participate Competition Dates: October 17 – November 15

Registration Deadline: October 14

Recycle-Bowl

A fun and engaging national four-week K-12 school recycling competition.

Aimed at igniting a passion for recycling among students across America.

2015 Recycle-Bowl Results Metric Result

Schools registered 1,266 Students/Teachers reached 689,942

Pounds recycled 3.9 million GHG reduced 5,726 MTCO2E Average pounds per capita 7lbs/capita

California Schools

National Award Winners Highest Per Capita

2012 Gorman School 2013 Pittsburg Elementary

RecycleMania

2017 Competition Key Dates Oct. 2016 – Registration Open Oct. 25 – Orientation Webinar Feb. 5, 2017 – Competition Kick-Off April 1, 2017 – Last Day of Competition For tools and resources, visit RecycleManiacs.org

RecycleMania

• A friendly 8-week recycling competition between colleges & universities

• Platform to engage students about waste reduction & build support for campus recycling program

2016 Results

Sacramento State

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