It also helps others find free or inexpensive materials, products, and feedstocks for their business or organizations such as schools or non-profit organizations. Ultimately, these exchanges of items that were once considered garbage promotes not only resource conservation, but a reduction in solid waste that needs to be disposed. Anyone interested in any of the materials listed can call the contact person shown in the ad and work out arrangements for acquiring the material. Likewise, anyone who needs or wants any kind of material also can list in the catalog specifically what is being sought. Exchanges, purchases or donations are again freely negotiated and agreed upon between the interested parties.
Catalogs are available at no charge.
Maybe you don't have time to thumb through the quarterly catalog, which could be a great read with your morning coffee. If every California home followed some waste prevention techniques, the state would still not meet its goal of reducing waste by 50 percent by the year 2000. That's because 61 percent of the state's 45 million annual tons of waste is produced by businesses. If California is going to respond to the challenge of the state's waste reduction targets, then lots of creative thinking and waste reduction is going to have to be done while on the job. Luckily, California's entrepreneurial spirit is reflected in innovative programs instituted at a variety of different types of commercial and industrial enterprises.