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4: <br /> Catherine: And I think that hopefully once they start using it that they might start changing their <br /> buying habits, saying "You know what- look at all this food we are having to compost because <br /> we're not using it." <br /> Question: Is it smell proof? <br /> Catherine: There's a list. It depends on what you are putting in there. You are not going to <br /> leave it sitting on your counter for a month. You can put it in your garage; I have one at home <br /> that has a charcoal filter you can purchase. The farm that we are working with says people put <br /> them in the freezer. <br /> Speaker? In the current system, the recycling, do any of those containers get contaminated <br /> with food? <br /> Catherine: Not with food; we haven't had any of our loads rejected. We have had to pull out <br /> plastic bags. <br /> Speaker? You said we never had anything rejected. Didn't we have a big problem with rigid <br /> plastics? <br /> Catherine: Rigid plastics we did have a problem until we stopped the collection until we can <br /> figure out how better to educate as to rigid plastics such as Tupperware containers, 5-gallon <br /> pails, Rubbermaid containers. I think we had one or two loads that were rejected. <br /> Speaker? So the rigid plastics cannot be recycled now? <br /> Catherine: We had stopped the collection temporarily for about a year while we figure out how <br /> to prevent the contamination, whether we go back to where we have a table for them to place <br /> the items on to prevent people from just throwing stuff in. <br /> Speaker? Can't we just do that? I mean, remove the dumpster and just put a drop off and let <br /> the gentleman who services the area... <br /> Catherine: Right. We are going to be fixing that; there is a broken rail, so we will be fixing the <br /> rail until we get that back up and running. <br /> Voice?: So it's just a matter of implementing? <br /> Catherine: Right. <br /> .Mike: You're going to have a table, not a bin, not a container? <br /> Catherine: We had a container and were just allowing people to throw directly into it and that's <br /> where we had the problem. Even though we tried to identify very clearly with a sign what is <br /> considered rigid plastic, but we were still getting a lot of rigid plastic. <br /> Mike: People don't read signs. <br /> Voice?: Speaking of the signs, I couldn't see that when I am driving by to be honest with you. <br /> Wayne B.: The sign was a concern in itself. <br /> Catherine: Why? <br /> Wayne: Because it's misleading. If you look at the sign, the way it reads, "State regulation <br /> prohibits disposal of the following materials". We've never accepted asphalt paving, we've <br /> never accepted brick or concrete we've never accepted a lot of these things but the other things <br /> on the other side that we do accept, that's misleading to me and I think it ought to be brought <br /> up. It was brought up to me by some people in town, so that's why I brought it up. <br /> Joyce: The fact of the matter is it's the law. We have to have a sign saying it is against the law <br /> to dispose of these items. <br /> Wayne: That's been the law since the 1990's. <br /> Joyce: Right. And now we feel that it is important to point out to folks that use the transfer <br /> station that it is against the law. <br /> Wayne: I've never seen anyone throwing any of that stuff in there that I can remember. So, it's <br /> against the law but so is throwing rigid plastic into the solid waste bin. <br /> 16 Great Neck Road North • Mashpee,MA • 02649 3 <br /> phone:508.539.1400 • fax:508.539.0954 • email:mis@ci.mashpee.ma.us <br /> m:lmy documentslWaste Mgmt Verbatim.doc <br />