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© Product Stewardship Institute, Inc.November 2008

PSI National Dialogue on Fluorescent Lighting

National Dialogue Meeting #3November 7, 2008 (Day 2)

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Summary of Day 1, Objectives for Day 2

(9:00 am PST)

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Summary – Enforcing Existing Bans• Press Release– Comments back in one week -> Finalize– Send to BOMA, retailer’s associations, etc. in 2

weeks– Prepare target audiences for communication to

their members in mid-January

• Get authority to share artwork on disposal bans (e.g., King County, VT DEC, etc.)

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Summary – Expanding Disposal Bans• Model disposal ban language

– Revise after meeting and distribute for review– Use just “recycle,” removing hazardous waste disposal option– Recycle so that mercury gets recovered and retired when

options become available– Draft optional component referring to final disposition of

mercury– Draft optional component on drum top crushers– Draft component specifying penalties & how they are used

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Summary – Expanding Disposal Bans• Develop MOU to endorse model disposal ban

and promote through ECOS, ASTSWMO, etc.• Share model disposal ban with Quicksilver

Caucus at leadership meeting in DC on December 10 (via Becky, Maria)

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SummaryCriteria for Model Program

• Criteria generally on target, but add:– Specified high performance goals– Define consumer to include households and small

generators– No visible fee at point of sale– No end of life recycling fee

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SummaryElements of Model Program

• Continue work on model state program/legislation• Procurement– Lifecycle perspective– Recycling service separate from procurement– Limits on mercury content (like CA law)– Develop pros/cons on design drivers

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SummaryElements of Model Program

• Bans: modify state disposal ban model for local governments

• Activate bans only once infrastructure is developed• Collection incentive for small to medium retailers

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Summary – Financing• Overview of 5 financing options – focused on utility

funding/cap and trade, and cost internalization• Agreement on– Third party organization– Some role for manufacturers– Voluntary retail collection– Minimize increased cost of product– No end of life fee– Need for common performance goals methodology and

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Summary – Financing• Different perspectives on:

– Could an internalized cost be spread over product lines – whether this is inconsistent with the company business model, or whether the model could accommodate this cost increase

– The impact of a product price increase on consumer behavior – Ease and interest in obtaining Cap and Trade funds for lamp recycling– Appropriateness and effectiveness of utility funding even in the short

term – Likeliness of future retailer acceptance to cover cost of collections– Effectiveness of voluntary programs

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Summary – Performance Goals• Agreement to jointly develop common methodology for

measuring performance of lamp recycling efforts• Emphasize working through data challenges and assumptions

to establish a recycling rate• Also develop “robustness” metrics and goals, including

convenience and awareness• Important to establish a baseline for comparative purposes,

even if it is not “perfect”

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Objectives for Day 2

• Lamp breakage impacts• Voluntary retail collection• Revisit model program and financing• Revisit workgroup composition & focus• Consider timing, stakeholders for Meeting #4

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Fluorescent Lamp Breakage(9:15 am PST)

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Next Steps?• Are there concerns about breakage that this group

wants to address?– Usage– Collection sites– Transport (shipping via private carrier, etc.)– Solid waste stream?

• What can we do?– Develop best management practices for shipping from collection

locations?– Other next steps?

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Encouraging Voluntary Retail Collection(10:45 am PST)

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Strategies to Encourage Voluntary Retail Collection

• Infrastructure Workgroup focused on promoting voluntary collection at retail locations

• 2 documents developed to consider today– Recommendations for Retail Collection: tips for successful

implementation– How-to Fact Sheet: designing and starting program

• Review documents for general concept, tone – benefits and overcoming obstacles

• Develop strategies to use these and other tools to encourage retail collection of lamps

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Recommendations/best practices• Infrastructure Workgroup developed survey

– Better understand the challenges to retail collection and how these are being overcome

– 17 retailers in different parts of the country– Big box, grocery, drugstore, hardware, lighting– Asked about program structure, logistics & obstacles

• Survey results compiled and discussed by workgroup, revisions made

• Draft document to review today– Emphasis is on in-store operational issues (as compared to program

design)

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“How-to” Document• Based on PSI pilot project in Region 8 states

– Working with Ace Hardware and Women’s Voices for the Earth– Funded by U.S. EPA Region 8– 25+ stores collecting with shipping-from-retail system in Utah,

Montana, South Dakota– Contributions from utilities, local electrical co-ops, and State of

Montana– May - December 2008

• Overview of steps and considerations– Intended for those interested in setting up collection, including basic

program design

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Next steps?

• What do we do next to encourage retail collection?

• Are there other infrastructure elements that need to be addressed?

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Recap – Work Ahead• Disposal bans press release – outreach to target

audiences • Revise model disposal ban language and

develop MOU with dialogue group• Continue work on model state program/

legislation and focus on procurement, etc.• Develop common methodology for measuring

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Recap – Work Ahead• Develop best management practices for

shipping from collection locations?• Promote voluntary collection at retail

locations using two documents• Financing – anything more that would be

useful?

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Meeting #4

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• Tentatively scheduled for March 3-4, 2009o Timing appropriate relative to legislative sesions?

• Chicago, IL• Funding from U.S. EPA Region 5• Agenda items?• Missing stakeholders?

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