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I was present in Sacramento on July 17th but compelled to leave
before my number was called. 

It was heartening to hear that California has at present 32,000
solar rooftop installations and plans a million new solar roofs;
if I were in the solar equipment installation business, I would be
heartened by a 1700% increase in my business mandated by state
action. 

Unfortunately, I'm in the waste reduction and recycling business
and, despite extensive documentation over the last fifteen years
that recycling abandoned consumer products reduces energy
consumption in basic industries by a large amount (the national
figure is equal to 21% of all coal-fired power plant emissions),
CARB staff has given the recycling industry not one single crumb
in its draft scoping plan. Whether intimidated by the CIWMB's
inability to act or influenced by the failure of the IPCC to take
industrial emissions as amenable to major reductions through
existing technologies (recycling is an old, simple, and
time-tested technology) or even possibly ignorant of the effects
of recycling on industrial emissions (a matter well chronicled in
John Davis' presentations to the CIWMB in May, 2007 and raised
again at the CIWMB meeting with interested parties in January 2008
and never reconvened), CARB staff has given us nothing. That's a
mistake. 

Arthur R. Boone
owner
Total Recycling Associates, Oakland.