Source Reduction, Reuse, Recycling & Green Procurement
With more than 40 years of experience building and running recycling businesses, EPS is well-positioned to assist California-based companies, and those seeking to do business in the state, with recycling, reuse, and source reduction issues. The recycling expertise EPS offers its clients is comprehensive.
The firm has been involved in the creation of virtually all of California's recycling legislation including –
SB 650 (recycling grants and low interest loans)
SB 546 (re-refined used motor oil incentives)
AB 2020 (beverage container refund act)
AB 939 (50% recycling mandates)
AB 1305 (65% newsprint recycled content)
AB 341 (75% recycling goals and mandates)
AB (1126) (conversion technology evolution)
As Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's environmental appointee to the California Integrated Waste Management Board (now CalRecycle) Gary Petersen has a firsthand understanding of how to ensure successful client relations with the Agency. Additionally, EPS has existing relationships with most of California's recycling and hauling companies; along with private recycling companies processing paper stock and scrap metal.
EPS has handled recycling, reuse and source reduction issues for:
Waste Management Inc.
Toyota North America
Coca-Cola Los Angeles
Kaiser Aluminum
Reynolds Aluminum
Walt Disney Studios
American Forest Products Stewardship Council
The White House
Cousteau Society Los Angeles
The United States Navy
The United States Air Force
Los Angeles County
City of Los Angeles
County of Alameda
City of Santa Monica
City of Redondo Beach
City of Burbank
Anaergia
Harvest Power
Ultimately, representing environmental technologies requires a successful market development approach. EPS has a long history of: connecting environmental technologies to private markets, government markets (municipal, state and international), and negotiating market entry and expansion.
EPS has been involved in sustainable design and building projects since being founded in the 1990s including: sustainably designed housing developments, green building designs incorporating energy and water conservation measures, the US Green Building Council's LEED program
EPS has an established media expertise, which includes: representing clients positions on radio and television, writing op-eds and Letters to Editors (LTEs); editorial board visits and strategic media planning. A successful environmental strategy requires the use of both traditional and social media campaigns.
The evolution of any environmental technology is ultimately determined by the laws governing those technologies. A thorough understanding of those laws and how they could be changed to further technological development is the essential starting point for evaluating the success of any environmental technology.
EPS has represented clients on oil-related issues since the 1990’s. This representation has included stopping off shore oil development on both U.S. coasts, stopping Occidental Petroleum from drilling 60 to 100 oil wells adjacent to the Will Rogers State Beach in Pacific Palisades, California
EPS, working for Los Angeles County, was extensively involved in promoting the development of conversion technologies in California. Conversion technologies (gasification/pyrolysis/anaerobic digestion), unlike incinerators, do not burn waste. They are non-combustion thermal, mechanical, and biological processes.
Successful representation of environmental technologies and services requires a sophisticated understanding of environmental stewardship and how to integrate it into a business plan. Understanding environmental technologies in the context of politics, stakeholder participation and permitting is essential to success.
We believe that companies/clients who deal solely within the existing formats and processes of regulatory agencies, without an "outside" strategy, are operating at a marked disadvantage. It has been our experience that coalition advocacy (including media relations) offers clients this kind of outside strategic approach
EPS since its creation in 1997 has been involved in representing renewable energy technologies including solar energy, electric vehicles and EV fast chargers. The firm is familiar with all aspects of ensuring the emergence of these energy saving technologies including market development, governmental Affairs for Recycle America, and Gubernatoria:
With more than forty years experience building and running recycling businesses, EPS is exceptionally well-positioned to assist California based companies, companies seeking to do business in California, as well as jurisdictions with all recycling, reuse and source reduction issues. The recycling expertise EPS offers its clients is comprehensive.
EPS has a long history of working on water issues related to marine ecosystems, coastal pollution, riparian ecosystems, river, watershed and wetlands restoration, and seawater desalination. We were retained by Poseidon Resources (Surfside) LLC to work on permitting the company's Huntington Beach facility.
With the ever-changing nature of markets, environmental laws and regulations, environmental technologies need expert representation. Environmental Problem Solving Enterprises (EPS) is dedicated to providing that representation through many different structured strategies capable of navigating: laws, regulations and interest group opposition.