About the Board

The Integrated Waste Management Board, one of six boards and departments within the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA), is responsible for managing California's solid waste stream and promoting waste diversion from landfills. To encourage diversion, the Board develops waste reduction programs, provides public education and outreach, assists local governments and businesses, and fosters market development for recyclable materials. The Board also protects public health and the environment by encouraging used oil recycling, regulating waste management facilities, and cleaning up abandoned and illegal dump sites.

Award Program

What is Wrap?
WRAP, The Waste Reduction Awards Program, is sponsored by the California Integrated Waste Management Board. CIWMB annually recognizes California businesses that make outstanding efforts to reduce waste and send less garbage to landfills.

Who can apply?
California businesses and nonprofit organizations that have taken effective measures to reduce the amount of nonhazardous waste they send to landfills can apply for a WRAP award. We encourage multi-year winners! Government agencies and public schools are not eligible.

How do you qualify for a WRAP award?
WRAP awards are given to businesses that reduce , reuse, recycle waste, purchase recycled products, and educate employees on waste reduction opportunities. Each business is evaluated on its efforts to reduce its OWN nonhazardous waste. For example, a recycling business is eligible based on activities that reduce its OWN waste, rather than recycling the waste of others.

How do you apply?
To request an application, simply do one of the following:

• Leave a phone message at (919) 255-2497
• Send a fax to CIWMB (916) 255-4580
• send e-mail to lhenness@ciwmb.ca.gov
• You may also obtain a copy of the application through the Internet at: http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/wrap Once you receive the application, fill it out according to the directions and return it to CIWMB.

When is the deadline?
Your completed application must be received or postmarked by June 30.

What is the WRAP award?
Winners will receive an award from the State of California along with a WRAP WINNER logo. Previous WRAP winners have used the logo on their Web sites, in advertising, and on products such as telephone directories, beverage containers, and packaging.

Website

Is your business looking for information on how to conserve resources and save money? Is your local agency in need of clip art or sample news articles to promote waste management in your community? Are you a student working on a research paper on waste management laws? Or do you need to know where the nearest used oil recycling center is or where you can buy recycled plastic lumber?

The answers to these questions and more can be found on the California Integrated Waste Management Board's dynamic Internet home page at www.ciwmb.ca.gov

The Board's user-friendly home page is a customer-focused, one-stop information source about solid waste management and California's innovative programs to promote waste prevention, reuse, recycling, and composting, and to protect your health and safety and the environment.

Local governments, businesses, industry, schools, and California residents now have faster access to resources and timely information about committee and Board meetings, workshops, loan and grant applications, and regulatory reform activities, to name just a few of the items available on line.

And if you don't have Internet access at work or home, most public libraries have computers where you can access the Web.

Site Organization
Once at the Board's home page, you will find 12 information categories to choose from.

Five categories link you to information based on what type of customer you are:

• Business & Industry
• Local Government
• LEA (Local Enforcement Agency)
• Facilities and Operations
• Home & Family
• Teachers & Students

Six others link to specific types of information:

• What's New
• Publications
• Meetings & Events
• Legislation & Regulations
• Directories & Databases
• About the Waste Board

An additional category, "Waste Management Programs", links to each of the Board's program areas (such as Market Development Resources, Used Oil Recycling, Financial Assistance, and Waste Prevention World.)

There are many different ways to get to the information you need-for instance, you will find a link to the "Compost and Mulch Source List" at "Market Development Resources" (on the Business and Industry or Waste Management Programs pages). You can also link to the same list from "Landscaping Waste Prevention" (part of Waste Prevention World on the Waste Management Programs page). If you're not sure where to look, try the "site map."

And don't overlook the search feature! On the Board's home page you can type in a word or words to search for, such as "compost," and click the "find" button. This will display a list of all pages throughout the Board's site that include that term. Click on a page title to go directly to the information.

Highlights
New information is being added to the Board's site all the time. Here are a few highlights.

Our Publications Catalog, with over 200 documents available electronically, and online ordering for hard copies

• Our popular Waste Awareness Quiz
• A place to find your nearest used oil collection center.
• Waste management statutes, regulations, proposed regulations, and key legislation.
• The California Materials Exchange (CaIMAX), which helps businesses and schools trade materials others can use.
• Teacher training information and sample curriculum.
• Recycling market development information and resources, including databases of recycled-content products.-Business waste reduction assistance, including the Waste Reduction Awards Program (WRAP).
• Local government assistance.
• Financial assistance programs, including a searchable grants database.
• Press releases.
• Board and Committee agendas.
• Upcoming workshops and events.
• Landfill tipping fee data.

Purpose
The Board maintains its Web site to enhance public access to information and services it provides-to help you help California cut in half the amount of waste going to landfills by the year 2000.

The Board's goals for the site include:

• Provide timely and convenient access to Board publications, data, and information about the Board's programs.
• Reduce waste generation and increase effectiveness of Board staff through electronic distribution of information.
• Provide convenient access to other resources available on the Internet by linking to other sites.
• Make effective use of current and evolving Internet technologies to maximize service to you.

Questions?

For more information, visit the Web site at www.ciwmb.ca.gov or contact the Board's Public Affairs Office at (916) 255-2296 or opa@ciwmb.ca.gov

To order publications, go to the online Publications Catalog or call the Board's toll-free hotline (from California only) at 1-800-553-2962.

For information on where to take your recyclable materials, contact the " Earth's 911 Environmental/Recycling Hotline at 1-800-CLEAN-UP, or go to www.1800cleanup.org

Publication #530-98-002 April 1998

The Integrated Waste Management Board (IWMB) does not discriminate on the basis of disability in access to its programs. IWMB

publications are available in accessible formats upon request by calling the Public Affairs Office at (916) 255-2296. Persons with

hearing impairments can reach the IWMB through the California Relay Service, 1-800-735-29