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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1997-10-08 Solid Waste Advisory Committee MinutesSolid Waste Advisory Committee = - Minutes, October 8, 1997 meeting Employee Lounge, Town Hall Annex Present: Members Jackie Chipman, Jennifer Culbert, Bob Brown, Lynda Zarrow, Anne Mark, Jean Krogh: Staff liaison - Ted McIntire. Select Board liaison - Sally Hoyt. 1. The meeting was called to order by Bob Brown at 7:40 p.m. September minutes were accepted as corrected. I ACTION PLAN. The booklet, "Reading's Hidden Treasure," is almost ready to go to the printer. Kay has typed the final version, Peter Hechenbleikner and 'Ted Cohen have looked at it, and Ted McIntire has made a few comments. The cost of printing Will be covered by the town and Waste Management. Lynda will get it to the printer in Danvers. This printer's estimate was about half as much as estimates given by other,printers. The America Recycles Day pledge cards will be printed on regular.stock paper by the Danvers printer. Lynda has' written a letter Which will go on town letterhead on the back of the pledge cards. People will mail in their pledge cards to the, Mass. Recycles Day Boston address. We have 84 )lock Leaders so far, spread over many parts of town; it Would be good if we had at least 103 block leaders to cover all the areas. Jackie is assigning block leaders to their routes, working with Lynda on parts of this process. Jackie talked to the Democratic Committee about how they distribute things town-wide and talked to Molly Ziegler, who suggested contacting Town- Meeting members to serve as block leaders (which Jackie will do). All of us SWAC members will be 'block leaders. Most of the volunteers want to be assigned. a route-close to their home, but not everyone will have their own neighborhood. If someone is really not happy, we'll try to adjust their route as best we can. At the Block Leader Orientation on October, 2$t`, We will hand out booklets and pledge cards and Jackie will explain routes, using maps and different colors to, make. things as clear as possible. Each block leader will get a map with their route on it. If a block leader is not at the meeting; we will deliver their booklets to,them. We'll send out a letter ASAP inviting block leaders to the Oct. 28th meeting. We will, ask block leaders to distribute the booklets and pledge cards, in a, timely fashion so people can send back their pledge cards before the Nov: 15 h deadline. Jackie suggested including a map in the -booklet showing red and black recycling weeks. After discussion, the committee decided that confusion about red and black weeks does not seem to be a major problem and is not, in most cases, the reason people'fail to recycle. Most people. just see when their neighbors put out their bins and follow suit. So maybe we don't need to insert this map. We will discuss details of the block leader orientation/training at the next subcommittee meeting. Jennifer and Anne will bake cookies: Mass. Recycles Day - Jackie will follow up on getting publicity into the next water lot jgr ~R the editor from Mass. Recycles appeared in the Chronicle. Anne's letter in Reading Notes and article in the ChrCh- will be more publicity. Jackie will talk to -the town manager about a SWAG member joining him as a guest on Ask the Town Manager. We hope to get on the October 21, Select Board agenda with the America Recycles Day proclamation and to publicize our booklet. a Anne has written a letter to businesses about Mass. Recycles Day and about stocking products made from recycled materials. The letter, to be printed on town letterhead, will go out within a week or so to all businesses on the assessor's list. It will list WasteCap resources, contain a copy of the pledge card, and have other information for businesses. 3. Reports and Comments. Bob and Anne went to the Select Board meeting last night and read Jackie's Chronicle letter on home composting. At this time, we will not put up a,poster about compost bins at the Strout Avenue compost center. There has been no response from the schools yet to Anne's REAPS letter; Anne will follow up. Anne does not yet have tonnage figures for the textile drive. 4. Information. Bob will attend the Ogden-Martin meeting on October 291'. October 181` is Household Hazardous Waste Collection in Stoneham. 5. Old and New Business. Drop-off for recyclables: Ted has a picture of a smaller roll-off bin but doubts that Osco will put a bin on their property unless they have a spot in the back. Lynda reported that it's too late to get recycling info. corrections in the local phone book because the phone books have already gone to the printer. The new MRIP Regional Coordinator is Sharon Kashida. Ted will send someone to the October 30'x` meeting with Sharon. We will try to get an article into the Chronicle about this; Anne will wait to see if Sharon has written something. Bob will prepare a news release about compost bins. A big question: How do we get the Chronicle to print all the stuff SWAC is doing??? The meeting was adjourned at 9:20 p.m. Submitted by Jean Krogh Solid Waste Advisory Committee Minutes, October 28th Meeting: Block Leader Orientation Reading High School, Lecture Hall Present: Members of the Solid Waste Advisory Committee: Jackie Chipman, Anne Mark, Lynda Zarrow, Bob Brown, Jennifer Culbett, Kay Clark, Jean Krogh; staff liaison Ted McIntire; block leaders. At this orientation meeting for Block Leaders, Anne Mark and Jackie Chipman were the presenters. We handed out an informational letter, route information and instructions, and some facts on tecyciltig in Reading. Each block leader present received 70 booklets and 70 pledge cards to hand dtlt tb houses on their routes. SWAC members will deliver booklets and pledge cards to those block Wdefk not present. Submitted by Jean Kro ,gh /I