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First, I urge the Board to advocate the use of a greenhouse gas
estimation tool which truly reflects the greenhouse gas emissions
of waste materials.  When used by itself, the ICLEI greenhouse gas
inventory tool underestimates the greenhouse gas reduction
potential of reducing, reusing, recycling and composting because
it does not account for upstream emissions of materials.  Since
for most products, the upstream ghg emissions are dramatic, this
is a serious flaw.  I urge the Board to advocate that cities and
counties use the EPA's WARM tool, together with the ICLEI tool, to
more accurately reflect the greenhouse gas emissions of materials.


Second, I urge the Board prioriitze preventing organics,
especially food waste, from entering the landfill. According the
the US EPA (2000)  "There are no plausible scenarios in which
landfilling minimizes GHG emissions from waste management; for
food wastes, composting yields significantly lower emissions than
landfilling.  For paper wastes, landfilling causes higher GHG
emissions than either recycling or incineration with energy
recovery."

Third, I urge the Board to adopt the zero waste goal.