Publications

Working Over Time? Part 1 & Part 2
by David Stitzhal & Jennifer Goodhart
Published in Resource Recycling in 2018

One Pacific Northwest city has over a decade consistently surveyed residents about recycling awareness. The process has helped demonstrate the long-term effectiveness of outreach tied to a range of material types, including several covered by product stewardship programs.

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Does it Matter How We Pay for Recycling?
by David Stitzhal
Published by Upstream in 2013

Does it matter whether we pay for recycling through rates and taxes versus paying for recycling as part of the cost of the product?

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Product Stewardship: Can it Drive Green Design?
by David Stitzhal
Published in Environmental Quality Management in 2011

Product-oriented policies are increasingly being used by all levels of government to address concerns regarding material use and toxicity throughout the life cycle of the products we use. Numerous states and provinces have laws that address electronics, paint, mercury-containing devices, beverages, and other products. If future laws and policy tools are to best balance the needs of all stakeholders, it is essential that all interested parties become literate in this area.

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Stewardship Solutions
by David Stitzhal, Scott Klag, and Bill Smith
Published in Public Works – Ideas and Opinions section in 2006

By reaching out to the private sector, local governments can make a big difference in e-waste recycling efforts.

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Staying out of Hot Oil: A Used Oil Recycling Program Demonstrates Measurable Behavior Change in Response to a Concerted Education & Marketing Program
by David Stitzhal
Published in Resource Recycling in 2005

The Holy Grail for cause-related marketing and other community-based social marketing efforts is establishing a metric by which you can measure whether your well-intentioned, carefully-crafted efforts have had a measurable impact on the human behaviors you are attempting to influence.

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Apportioning the Roles and Responsibilities for Product Stewardship: A Case for a New Federal Role
by Gath T. Hickle and David Stitzhal
Published in Environmental Quality Management in 2003

The limits of traditional regulatory approaches in addressing environmental problems, combined with a sharpened focus on the environmental impacts of products and the growing role of corporate-led environmental initiatives, have fueled a growing international trend toward product stewardship.

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Estimating Used Motor Oil Volumes Generated by Do-It-Yourself Oil Changers in Bellevue Washington
by David Stitzhal and Deborah R. Holmes
Published in Environmental Practice in 2001

While collection volumes for used oil are accurately estimated, the amount of oil generated by do-it-yourselfers – and therefore available for collection – is less well known. The challenge is compounded by the unavailability of sales figures for new oil, and because considerable volumes of oil drip from, or are burned in, car engines.

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The Northwest Product Stewardship Council: A Lever Long Enough?
by David Stitzhal
Published in Pollution Prevention Review in 2000

Before describing how a remote geographic corner of the United States, with less than 2 percent of the country’s market share, is attempting to influence the structure of commercial transactions and the nature of product design in this country, it is important to set out a few definitions.

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Preventing Packaging Waste
by Jim Jensen, David Stitzhal, Rey Sundal, and Vikki Van Duyne
Published in Resource Recycling in 1996

Each year, the packaging industry does roughly $84 billion worth of business. It’s the third largest industry in the country, larger than most of the industries it serves, and it employs more people than any other single industry. The waste generated from this tremendous amount of packaging is, unfortunately, all too often ignored.

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The Case for Waste Prevention: A How-To Guidebook by and for Legal Professionals
by David Stitzhal
Published by the Law Firm Waste Reduction Network in 1996

“This guidebook – written by lawyers for lawyers – is concise, well-written, and full of creative ideas about waste prevention. It is an excellent resource for the legal profession and anyone interested in waste prevention.” Seattle City Council Member

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Calling All Cars: A Comprehensive Approach to Used Oil Recycling
by David Stitzhal and Tom Spille
Published in Resource Recycling in 1995

The problems associated with the improper disposal of motor oil are well known and well documented, but what can one individual city do?

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Redefining Rerefining
by David Stitzhal
Published in Resource Recycling in 1993

Washington Citizens for Recycling initiated efforts to increase the use of re-refined motor oil by public and private sector vehicle fleets.

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Beyond Neutrality: The Possibilities of Activist Mediation in Public Sector Conflicts
by John Forester and David Stitzhal
Published in Negotiation Journal in 1989

The ideal of neutrality in public sector mediation obscures more than it clarifies. Worse still, it distracts our attention from the skilled, ethical judgements every mediator must make in practice.

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Westville: Mediation Strategies in Community Planning (available on request)
by John Forester and David Stitzhal
The Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School

To explore the political and ethical influence mediators inevitably exert as they manage dispute resolution processes, we have designed a scorable three-party mediation exercise for teaching and research that allows us to investigate activist, non-neutral mediation strategies.