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Recycling Committee Minutes 03/19/13
Town of Eastham
Recycling Committee

MINUTES
Of
March 19, 2013

Members present:  Lian Smith, , Andrea Aldana, Fred Guidi,  Roz Diamond.  
Non-members present: Neil Andres, Nan Balmer, David Quinn

  • Action Items:
  • Dave Quinn to send DEP list of PAYT towns in MA; 3-year old report on Solid Waste long haul rail use.
  • Committee to work on encouraging growth of resident-based composting and feasibility of Transfer Station organic food composting.
  • Fred to work with municipality to set up Committee web site.  Web site to be used for educational materials on composting, recycling, etc.
  • As part of Committee goal to foster education via web site, Lian will investigate options for a Committee logo to increase resident recognition of Committee efforts.
  • Committee to consider selling hoime composters during Windmill Weekend in September on the Village Green.
  • Key discussion points, decisions:
  • Minutes of Feb 6, 2013 meeting were approved as written.
  • New SEMAS contract begins 1/1/2015
  • Private hauler treatments in neighboring towns:
  • Brewster: No private haulers
  • Wellfleet: Requires haulers to provide 1 price to customers for both trash and recycling to disincentivize property owner opt-out of recycling.  With bundled price, everyone pays the same and recycling is encouraged. Wellfleet must enforce price bundling so all hauler have level playing field.  Vacationers want to recycle – complain to town when they can’t.
  • Eastham: Charges $85/ton for haulers now.  With new SEMAS contract in 2015, cost likely to rise to $135.
  • Food waste accounts for about 20% of trash. To decrease trash volume, increase ease of access to recycle ( e.g. hard plastics, textiles).  Committee to work on encouraging resident-based composting, and feasibility of Transfer Station organic food composting.  Home composters cost $42.50, and about 80-100 are sold each year to Easthamers.  Committee to consider selling them Windmill Weekend on the Village Green
  • MA is encouraging food waste ban.  One avenue to promote composting would be for the Committee to have its own web site.  Fred to investigate.
  • As part of Committee education role, discussion ensued about writing articles for newspapers, and our own website.  Chatham, for example, issues articles bi-weekly in local press.
  • To encourage business recycling – Committee to consider how to give good citizen award to restaurants etc for recycling.
  • Next Meetings:   
  • April   9, 2013, 5:30 PM, Town Hall
  • April 23, 2013, 5:30 PM, Town Hall