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Johnathan: One suggestion to this committee is to take and prioritize everything we should be <br /> educating people to. I've heard two things already that I didn't know. Organic waste has to be <br /> high on the list. <br /> Tom O'Hara: What do we have to do, put a sign on the Salvation Army saying they will take <br /> sheets,they will take pillows? <br /> Mike: You talked about organics being 20% savings maximum if it's done properly. What <br /> about textiles? <br /> Catherine: It's in a separate category. <br /> Voice?: I don't have any numbers,just generally I've heard it suggested that somewhere in the <br /> range of 10 to 15% in textiles. <br /> Catherine: The total of other materials, 11.6% which includes propane tanks, mattresses and <br /> textiles. They can't break out every single item so they kind of group your general recyclables, <br /> your plastics, your organics, your C & E. <br /> Tom O'Hara: Excuse me, but this is a State average, have you taken a survey of Mashpee? <br /> Catherine: No. <br /> Rick: It should give us a pretty good idea because Barnstable has certainly done one. And <br /> very informative. <br /> Glenn: when the state comes up with those numbers they're talking about coming up in a fire <br /> truck with those front end loaders dumping the cans, the dumpsters and all that stuff, they're <br /> talking about all the trash going into incineration landfill. They're not talking about just <br /> residential transfer stations. If somebody wants to get rid of their TV and their tires and propane <br /> tanks they pull up to the first (inaudible ) and bump up their numbers. <br /> Tom O'Hara: So the state % doesn't really apply to our transfer station. <br /> Mike: So we have a couple of options that make some sense that we should educate people <br /> on, composting and textiles. We may not get a remarkable percentage reduction but we should <br /> get some percentage reduction and it should over time, with some education and effort, maybe <br /> we'll get some trash reduction. <br /> Tom O'Hara: I think it's worth doing. It doesn't cost that much. <br /> Mike: What's the best way to educate? <br /> Tom O'Hara: What about a handout at the gate, Mike the guy at the shack hands them out, <br /> gets him out, weather's breaking, gets him the opportunity to take a good look at the stickers. <br /> Catherine: we tried to have them hand out at the gate; we tried to have the sticker office hand <br /> them out when they buy their sticker. Who knows how successful that is? <br /> John Cahalane; But it does do something. <br /> Mike: As John said earlier, maybe what we can do when we get there, talk about ways to <br /> educate and one of the ways that works tremendously is to have something that the kids take <br /> home from school in their backpack. When it gets home it gets on the table and maybe there is <br /> a chance someone sees it. <br /> Rick: It's an inexpensive way, to get the handout at the gate and send it out in the backpacks. <br /> Glenn: One of the best ways that I found when selling the stickers: you get a sticker, you get a <br /> map of the transfer station, textiles go here, here, here. Also one of the things that I've noticed <br /> is that the way you make recycling work is you've got to make stuff easy and accessible. When <br /> people drive up, they see textiles go here, the recyclables go there, the cans, the propane and <br /> the books used to be a bit more visible. Now you've got to kind of go back in and get out of your <br /> car and walk the stuff back in. And I've heard just around my neighborhood and in different <br /> conversations, that they're not dealing with that anymore. They just throw everything in the <br /> trash. I know it's been a nightmare over there trying to shuffle and organize eveything. But <br /> 16 Great Neck Road North • Mashpee,MA • 02649 6 <br /> phone:508.539.1400 • fax:508.539.0954 • email:mis@ci.mashpee.ma.us <br /> m:1my documentslWaste Mgmt Verbatim.doc <br />