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In 1999, ABAG undertook to conduct an educational campaign called "Grasscycle! –Clip your Waste" for the 100 cities and nine counties of the Bay Area. This campaign was to provide easily accessible Internet-based information for cities, counties, residents and landscapers. In 2000, ABAG continues the campaign. ABAG's primary role in 2000 is to provide web support services for county programs.
Also participating in this program, with county-level demonstration projects/campaigns are the Contra Costa solid Waste Management Authority and their local partners: the West Contra Costa Integrated Waste Management Authority, and the cities of Concord, Martinez, Pleasant Hill, Pittsburg, and San Ramon. In the North Bay our participants include the County of Solano, Sonoma County, County of Napa, Val-Core Recycling, the Upper Valley Waste Management Authority (UVA) and the Cities of Napa, American Canyon, Fairfield, Suisun, and Vacaville. In the South Bay our grasscycling partner is the City of San Jose.
Specific objectives include:
• Development of a permanent, Internet-based online resource of information about grasscycling methods, tools and benefits, which may be freely accessed by the nearly seven million residents of the Bay Area.
• Education of elected officials from 100 Bay Area cities and nine counties about grasscycling benefits.
• Conducting grasscycling demonstration projects aimed at increasing citizen participation in Contra Costa, Solano, Sonoma and Napa counties, and the City of San Jose.
• Presenting the results of the demonstration programs in this project to the recycling community of the Bay Area.
The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) is one of more than 560 regional planning agencies across the nation working to help solve problems in areas such as land use, housing, environmental quality, and economic development.
ABAG is owned and operated by the cities and counties of the San Francisco Bay Area. It was established in 1961 to protect local control, plan for the future, and promote cooperation on areawide issues. In recent years, ABAG has answered the needs of its members by providing low-cost services that save the taxpayers millions of dollars.
To visit the abagOnline home page please click here. To send a message to the 2000 Grasscycle coordinator, Bart Carr, please click here.
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