Publication Summary

Welcome to the first issue of The Closed-Loop Scoop! This newsletter combines our former regional newsletters (Solid Waste News, The Exchange, Solid Waste Central, and Clean Sheet). After evaluating the regional newsletters, along with feedback received from county solid waste professionals, we decided that a statewide newsletter would be more efficient and effective than individual regional ones.

As Washington State plans for its future, it is critical that the state support and improve its solid waste infrastructure to reduce the amount of waste. We must immediately begin to base our solid waste system on sustainable resource conservation.

We hope this newsletter will support this effort and promote responsible behavior in all sectors, including businesses, governments, and the general public. Our goal is to increase understanding of the benefits and resource savings of an integrated solid waste management system. The newsletter will help us to build better partnerships with all sectors of the public and to provide education on accurate, topical issues, such as waste reduction, recycling, reuse, and sustainability.

Each issue will cover a variety of aspects of our solid waste program as well as announce upcoming meetings, hearings, and other events. It will keep folks posted on important issues and progress on projects. As with the regional newsletters, you can subscribe to either the electronic or the printed version; this will continue to be an option for the statewide version.