Tri-CED Community Recycling was founded with the help of Richard Valle in 1980 as a mean to provide employment to youth and the formerly incarcerated. Richard Valle has seen Tri-CED grow to become California's largest non-profit recycling operation. Mr. Valle served on the Union City Council for 13 years and was elected to the Alameda County Board of Supervisor in 2012. He hopes to start a dialogue between state legislators, the governor's office and Cal Recycle to create a statewide stakeholders group looking at the current crisis of recycling in the state of California.