07/31/2019 Environmental Board Minutes

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Enivornmental Board July 31, 2019 Page 4 DRAFT MINUTES Ms. Holmes will be there and reached out to Boy Scout troop 232 Mr. Sullivan will also be there and stated that line up is the east side of Target at 10:30am It was suggested that the group stay together and not spread out to much along the parade route Ms. Andrzejewski mentioned that we can point them in the direction of the trash container that will be placed on the parade route Mr. Sullivan suggested ordering new shirts B. Recycling Updates/Recycling Intern, Connor Kvendru Mr. Kvenc presented the first half of the score report which covers January 1 st to June 30th of this year, which is tonnage and expenses  Textile - just over 3 tons from Simple Recycling  Organicis - 6 tons collected by Ace Recycling  Recycling Saturday – 51 tons At the corn roast where there were waste stations and signage recycling collected was 38.24 lbs just under .02 tons and organics collected there was 281 lbs just under 1.5 tons. Noted was that we had ran out of organic bags. At Blue Heron Days there will be three organic collection sites at the Lino Park and at American Legion there will be two for a total of five collection sites Mr. Schwartz mentioned putting a sign on the organic collection containers saying no plastic may help with contamination Ms. Holmes wanted to know what happen to fencing and signs at the organic sites Mr. Flowers wanted to know about sending out an informational email and by viewing the clicks to see how many people open the email. Also having a simple video with the message may get more of a response. Mr. Flower also suggested having a information video on the website relating to organics and recycling Ms. Kaufenberg wanted to know about putting information out in the city newsletter. Also having all the cans in the same area with signs identifying what goes into which cans