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Recommendation IND 9 — Use the sector approach as the framework to help implement the agency’s initiatives.

Organize educational sector projects and technical assistance campaigns to properly manage or minimize certain wastes and chemicals. Campaigns may be organized around sectors of the economy (including government), industrial processes, or those that produce a key waste stream or use a certain chemical.

Ecology’s agency priorities (mitigating climate change, protecting Washington waters, and reducing toxic threats) need to be the key criteria for future sectors projects. (It is the intention that any sector work also will help move other Beyond Waste initiatives forward.)

Sectors help us effectively target our work and implement the agency’s priorities that reflect major risks to health and the environment. Implementing Beyond Waste will involve work with other programs on these efforts:

• Determining what sector projects to conduct.
• Researching and preparing materials for the project.
• Running the campaign, working closely with the appropriate associations and businesses.

Milestone IND I: Government is leading by example, with significantly less waste generation and less use of toxic substances at the local, state, and federal levels.

Milestone IND J: At least two successful sector campaigns that reduced greenhouse gases, toxics in products, and/or toxic releases going into Puget Sound and other Washington waters are complete.

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