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Recycling Committee <br />September 9, 2015 Minutes <br />Members Present: June Levy, Sheldon Gilbert, Marion Baker <br />Others: Catherine Laurent, DPW <br />A quorum being present, the meeting was called to order at 2:15 p.m.. <br />Minutes <br />The minutes of the January 2111 meeting were approved. <br />Waste Management Committee Update <br />The Waste Management Committee will be meeting next on September 211t. The results of the <br />Transfer Station survey will be reviewed. The Committee currently does not have a deadline for <br />making a recommendation to the Board of Selectmen. <br />Food Waste Collection Update <br />The August collection was slightly over 1 ton. Participation is low. <br />Rigid Plastic Collection <br />Catherine advised the Committee that collection of rigid plastic resumed. Because of the <br />contamination issues, residents will be asked to place items on tables for sorting rather than <br />throwing them directly in the roil -off. <br />With these two collections, residents have been provided the opportunity to divert almost <br />100% of their trash from the waste stream. <br />Other <br />Members discussed the future of the Committee and whether they should resign, whether the <br />Recycling Committee should be merged with the Waste Management Committee or whether <br />the Recycling Committee should be disbanded. The Committee will ask for a meeting with the <br />new Town Manager to discuss what its role is. Catherine will try to schedule a meeting for the <br />week of September 211t <br />The meeting adjourned at 3:10 p.m.. <br />Respectively submitted, <br />Catherine Laur t <br />