Illinois
The Illinois Waste Management and Research Center, Illinois
Environmental Protection Agency, Illlinois Department of Commerce and
Community Affairs and the Printing Industry of Illinois/Indiana continue
to pursue the program. Primary oversight is provided by Deb Jacobson of IL
WMRC and Eva Aloia of PII. Since June, 2001 two meetings have been held of
the participating agencies. As a result
1) A one page flyer that will be sent to the PII members by inserting
it in their newsletter. Copies will be supplied to the IL Great Printers
directly.
2) The current Great Printers have been contacted to update their
address, email, etc.
Wisconsin
Wisconsin's Great Printers Project is being more closely
coordinated with the PII efforts under the leadership of Nial Power who is
Executive Director of Printing Industries of Wisconsin and recently became
Executive Director of Printing Industries of Illinois and Indiana as well.
Michigan
Michigan continues to add designated Great Printers to their
program as well as continue to develop project reports and case studies on
Great Printers' P2 projects. At this time Karen Edlin (edlink@state.mi.us)
is overseeing activities on behalf of MDEQ and continues to work with the
Michigan Environmental Council and the counties and cities within Michigan
to promote the program to printers in the counties by encouraging the
counties to commit to only purchasing commercial printed materials from
Great Printers.
They have also continue to pursue the MI Print Buyers portion of the
program. To capitalize on the market incentives of this program, the MI-GPP
has undertaken efforts to recruit Great Print Buyers. To be considered a
Michigan Great Print Buyer, an organization must commit verbally or in
writing to purchase all printed material from a Great Printer, whenever
possible.
Minnesota
Paul Gutkowski (612/379-6008) of the Printing Industries of
Minnesota has been conducting GPP EHS assessments on behalf of PIM for the
past two years. There are about 47 Great Printers in MN. Donna Peterson
from the Minnesota Technical Assistance Program continues to work with
printers in Minnesota to become MN Great Printers.
Pennsylvania
The representatives from PA DEP completed a state specific
compliance and pollution prevention manual, conducted 2 workshops within
Pennsylvania for lithographic printers. The staff at PA DEP partnered with
GATF (Gary Jones) to present the compliance and P2 workshops.
Coordination
Debra Jacobson of IL WMRC coordinates communication among the
Great Printers Project group and maintains the most current information
and lists of Great Printers available on the PNEAC web sites. Three
meetings of all stakeholders have been held in Chicago at the offices of
U.S. EPA Region 5. Although Pennsylvania was unable to attend any of these
three meetings they provided updates for the group. Representatives from
Ontario (Steve Neville from Ontario Ministry of the Environment) and
Indiana (Dave Wintz from IDEM) and Council of Great Lakes Governors (Peter
Johnson) also participated in the project meetings and began to become
involved in the program. The last project meeting was held August
1999.
