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Planet, People, Profit: Business As Usual Mary Lou Van Deventer Operations Manager GRRN Zero-Waste Conference, Devens, MA October 2009
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Planet, People, Profit: Business As Usual. Mary Lou Van Deventer Operations Manager. GRRN Zero-Waste Conference, Devens, MA October 2009. Planet First. Our Non-Virtual Business Prevents Landfilling. We salvage at the City of Berkeley Solid Waste Transfer station. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Planet, People, Profit: Business As Usual
Mary Lou Van DeventerOperations Manager
GRRN Zero-Waste Conference, Devens, MA October 2009
Planet First. Our Non-Virtual Business Prevents Landfilling.• We salvage at the City of Berkeley
Solid Waste Transfer station. • We receive discards people bring us,
360 days a year. (We buy some – rewards modify behavior.)
• We pick up unwanted things after we screen the materials on the phone.
Salvaging
Receiving
Sometimes We Buy
Rewards modify behavior.
Works like a charm.
We Pick Up
We Sell
And Sell
And Sell
And Sell
What We Can’t Sell, We Recycle
People Next - Staff• Income sharing - 9.5% of gross
income plus $15/ton salvaged and picked up, split equally among all staff according to hours worked. 2009 average incentive is $3.85 per hour.
This incentive increases teamwork and peer pressure to work hard and honestly. Stealing from the company steals from all. Working together raises everyone’s income equally.
People Next - Staff• Profit sharing 2 times yearly. • Paid vacations, liberal unpaid time off. • Fully paid health coverage for staff
and all dependents. Reimbursement of copays for doctors’ visits.
• Dental and vision coverage. • 50% discount on purchases.
People Next - Staff
Respect for physical labor and knowledge. Efficient, enriching, healthy.
People Next - Community• Liberal donations of materials and
money to environmental and social-service organizations – Earth Island, Humane Society, schools, theater groups, many others.
• Speaking and tours to classes and for community groups of all kinds.
• Free facility redesign for hometown.
People Next - Community
Public-service advertising
supports local publications while raising awareness
and the public tone.
Advertising
Environmental magazine asked us to identify this as a paid ad. Could be mistaken for their content.
People Next - Industry• Support and work for organizations
that share our views. NCRA GRRN CRRA
• Political activism fighting incinerators, landfills, land use practices that hurt recycling.
People Next - Industry Concepts that Reposition our
Industry in the Marketplace of Ideas
This is wasting language
Resource Language Empowers
DISCARDS
WASTEBurn and/or Bury RECYCLE
Who Has Power?
Nobody - waste just happens.
The chooser has power.
Who Has Responsibility?
Nobody - waste just happens.Recycling is
a miracle.
The chooser has responsibility.
Recycling isbusiness.
Income Follows, and Maybe Profit
We don’t know the upper limit. When we started, conventional wisdom was that this couldn’t be done.
Income in a Construction Cycle
Our Prosperity Builds Community Prosperity
• Purchases for resale in 2008 put $135,000 in cash and $24,400 in trade credit into the hands of regular folks.
• Sales taxes in 2008 put $193,000 into the State treasury.
• Property taxes in 2008 put $57,000 into the County treasury.
The EndThe EndThe End
900 Murray St.Berkeley, CA 94710phone 510-841-SAVE
Mary Lou Van [email protected]
510-914-2701
