Summary of recycling meeting 2.26.09
Present: Mayor John Inyart, City Manager Scott Smith, Councilman Jeff Lahr, Donna Wieck, Marcus Ricci, Dick Hummel, Kathy Hummel
The city is not planning to renew the agreement with the county which provides for about $18,000 annually toward a contract with Veolia for the recycling dumpsters located on Adkins Drive. The contract expires April 30th 2009. Instead, the city is considering putting some of those funds toward partial subsidy of the e-recycling center located in NW Plaza, as well as staging a hazardous waste pickup day, possibly in the fall.
The city plans to post notification of this change near the dumpster to alert users and will make additional efforts to get the word out.
The city does not want to undermine private enterprise efforts by Morgan’s, CCSR and Veolia to establish recycling pickups. Mayor Inyart feels strongly that since the haulers have answered the call of the community as a whole in offering the service, they deserve a chance to make it work and as long as the bins are present, there will be little to no motivation for the community residents to take the next step which is embracing curb-side recycling.
The county will consider at a meeting in the very near future, action that would maintain recycling bins in Ashmore, Oakland and Humbolt however without the additional Charleston funds they will likely not continue it for their residents who live in the corporate limits of Charleston.
Any off-campus EIU student can take their recycling to the University. Every building has plastic and paper receptacles. Cardboard can be deposited behind the mail center west of the stadium.
The City would like very much to see the private sector handle this service and is taking a wait-and see stance of at least a year maybe longer to observe the progress of the private haulers on recycling before contemplating a city-run trash/recycling program.
Citizens for Recycling will:
*email this meeting summary to their Newsletter listserve and post it on the C4R Blog.
*give concrete examples of typical family costs from the different waste haulers on the Blog and in the Newsletter.
1 comment:
Morgan is our hauler. We are in the Stoner Drive area inside of Charleston.
Trash pickup is $19/month and has 1x week pickup.
Recyling is $5 and has curbside pickup on the first and third Wednesday of each month.
We furnish our own containers.
Morgan began curbside recycling on Feb. 1, 2009.
I really like being able to recycle more items with my curbside recycling than I could with the drop off bins. We have alot more recycleables than trash. I would like to reduce my trash pickup to every other week.
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