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Town of Reading - Meeting Minutes <br />Green Sense Article to be timed to Community Garden Opening <br />Town Friends and Family Day (lune 11) <br />• Side by Side tables with Community Garden <br />TerraCycle — Simone <br />• TerraCycle is a recycling service that collects items the Town Service does not. <br />• Is a branding program for items not otherwise recyclable <br />• Companies using their logo can claim that their item is recyclable. <br />• Salem has used their service. It would be good to know how they liked it. <br />• Uncertainty about how much is actually recycled <br />• Suggestion to have a informational campaign about how Reading recycles its <br />waste <br />• Could improve bylaws or regulations to minimize the use of single use plastic <br />• Further action postponed for about 6 months to see how Salem's program is <br />progressing. <br />Subcommittee for Outreach Activity <br />• Do a demonstration for induction stoves and heat pumps or other electric <br />appliances, possible teaming with companies to be held at the Reading Library or <br />RMLD <br />• Demonstration project for solar panels and battery technology <br />Town Energy Survey Assessment <br />• Genady scanned 40 surveys and had an 80% success rate based on the way the <br />survey forms are marked <br />• Dave will presort surveys to improve the capture efficiency <br />• Survey forms with comments will be set aside for further evaluation <br />Green Communities Status <br />• Reading is ineligible to be a Green Community because it does not pay into the <br />Renewable Energy Trust <br />• Legislation to allow Reading to become a Green Community is still in process <br />• Should we promote the hiring of a Sustainability Director if status as a Green <br />Community would not happen before the end of the year <br />• Other funding sources could be sought by a Sustainability Director <br />• Could have Town Meeting pass an instructional motion to assess the benefit for <br />having a Sustainability Director <br />• Dave to talk with Fidel and Finance Committee <br />Utility Incentive Update <br />• Natural Gas customers eligible for heat pump incentives <br />• RMLD may offer increased incentive <br />• RMLD graduated rates are also now available. <br />Next meeting 3/09/2022 at 7:00 pm <br />P"'Iz <br />