| California Integrated Waste Management Board | |
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| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1989 |
| Headquarters | 1001 I Street Sacramento, California |
| Employees | 540 Staff |
| Agency executives | Margo Reid Brown, Chair Rosalie Mulé Sheila Kuehl John Laird |
| Parent agency | California Environmental Protection Agency |
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| http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov | |
The California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB) , the state’s leading authority on recycling and waste reduction, was created by legislation (AB 939) adopted in 1989 by the California Legislature. Its mission: To promote the reduction of waste whenever possible; to manage all materials to their highest and best use; and to protect public health and safety and the environment.
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The Board is one of six agencies under the umbrella of the California Environmental Protection Agency, better known as Cal/EPA. When the Waste Board was established in 1989 under AB 939 (Sher), California diverted only 10 percent of solid waste out of landfills and into recycling and/or reuse projects. By 2007, the waste diversion rate had increased to 58 percent. It does this through cooperative efforts with California's local jurisdictions that are mandated under AB 939 to reach 50 percent diversion.
The Waste Board works with cities and counties to implement programs that seek a higher and better use for an estimated 92 million tons of waste generated each year in California. It provides grants and loans that have helped build California’s recycling industry that today accounts for 85,000 jobs, $4 billion in yearly salaries and wages and $10 billion worth of goods and services annually.
The Waste Board uses incentive grants and loans to help spur the private sector into developing new markets for recycled materials; to clean up solid waste disposal sites; and to clear illegal waste tire disposal sites. It also regulates California landfills to protect the health and safety of California residents and visitors. The Waste Board promotes the proper disposal of [used motor oil]; promotes the reuse and recycling of electronic waste; coordinates the safe disposal of sharps waste; and encourages the purchase of environmentally preferable devices.
California is a unique State with unique needs to managing its waste stream. Through waste characterization studies, the Waste Board is able to focus attention on programs aimed at reducing specific waste stream materials such as [organics] that make up nearly 33 percent of California's waste stream.
The Waste Board is led by a six-member policy-making Board. Board terms run for up to four years. Four members of the Board are appointed by the governor, and each branch of the Legislature makes one appointment.
Chair, Margo Reid Brown, -– Appointed as a full-time Board Member in January 2006 by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, and elected Board Chair the following month. Brown served nearly two years as director of scheduling for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. She held the same job from 1991 to 1999 for former California Gov. Pete Wilson. In the private sector, Brown was founder and president of a Sacramento-based community relations and fund development consulting firm. She is a 1985 graduate of the University of Southern California with a degree in international relations and political science.
Rosalie Mulé –Appointed in April 2004 by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and re-appointed in February 2008 as the Board member with experience in the private sector waste industry. From 2003-2004, she served as director of municipal marketing for Waste Management of the Inland Empire (Southern California). She worked from 1998-2003 as director of government affairs and municipal marketing for Waste Management, Inc. of Florida and has held waste industry jobs in Florida, California and Hawaii. She began her career from 1980 to 1984 as public participation manager for the Metro II Wastewater Program in San Diego. She graduated from Richard Stockton College of New Jersey with a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies.
Sheila Kuehl – California State Senator Sheila Kuehl was appointed by Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata effective December 1, 2008 as a full-time member of the California Integrated Waste Management Board, after serving 14 years in the California Legislature. Sen. Kuehl had most recently served the voter-imposed maximum eight years as a State Senator representing the 23rd District, which includes portions of Los Angeles and Ventura counties. In the Senate, she chaired the Natural Resources and Water Committee and the Health Committee.
Her earlier elected service included six years as a member of the California State Assembly, where she was the first woman in the history of the State to serve as Speaker Pro Tem. Sen. Kuehl graduated from Harvard Law School in 1978, where she was the second woman in the school’s history to win the Moot Court competition. She also served on Harvard’s Board of Overseers from 1998 to 2005.Prior to serving in the Legislature, Sen. Kuehl served on the faculty of the Loyola, UCLA and USC Schools of Law. She co-founded and was managing attorney at the California Women’s Law Center.
Sen. Kuehl also had a successful career as a child actress. Using the stage name Sheila James, she is best known for her portrayal of Zelda Gilroy in the television show The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, which ran from 1959 to 1963.
John Laird -- John Laird was appointed to the California Integrated Waste Management Board by Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, effective December 1, 2008. Mr. Laird has had a long history on environmental issues and was a member of the Santa Cruz City Council when an early curbside recycling program was established. Prior to his service on the Waste Board, Mr. Laird served six years in the California State Assembly, representing portions of Monterey, Santa Cruz, and Santa Clara counties. During his tenure Mr. Laird authored 82 bills that were signed into law, and he served four years as Chair of the Assembly Budget Committee. He was an author of the landmark bill establishing the Sierra Nevada Conservancy and was a leader in civil rights, coastal protection, children’s health, and higher education.
Mr. Laird served 17 years in local office, including 9 years on the Santa Cruz City Council, including terms as Mayor in 1983-84 and 1987-88, and 8 years on the Cabrillo Community College Board of Trustees. Mr. Laird also served on the district staff of Representative Jerome Waldie, as an analyst for the Santa Cruz County Administrative Officer, and as Executive Director of the Santa Cruz AIDS Project.
Mr. Laird was an honors graduate in politics from Adlai Stevenson College at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He and his spouse John Flores reside in Santa Cruz.
Carole Migden -- Former State Senator Carole Migden represented the 3rd District of California, which comprises the eastern half of San Francisco, all of Marin County, and portions of Sonoma County, from 2005-2008. In the State Assembly, Migden was the first woman, and the first freshman, to chair the powerful Appropriations Committee. She also served as a conferee on the state’s Joint Budget Conference Committee, which writes the final version of California’s state budget.
In the Assembly, she authored legislation to create California’s landmark domestic partner registry, promote children’s health, preserve the old growth Headwaters redwood forest, increase accountability in public schools, protect borrowers from predatory lending practices, protect consumers from manipulation by energy generators, and promote the use of emergency contraception.
The CIWMB is one of six agencies under California's Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA). To learn more about the Board's history, see The History of the California Environmental Protection Agency.
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