Recycling Committee Regular Meeting May 22, 2014-Approved

SIMSBURY RECYCLING COMMITTEE
TOWN HALL OFFICES – ROOM 103
Minutes - May, Thursday 22, 2014 at 6:30 p.m.

• Call to Order:

Mary Turner, Chair called the meeting to order at 6:36 p.m.

• Present: Dave Chase, Lori Fernand, Rosemary Fusco, Carol Miller, Claudia Szerakowski and Mary Turner.

• Approval of Minutes: March and April 2014

A motion by Lori and seconded by Dave to approve the minutes from the March and April 2014 meeting. The motion passed unanimously.

• Correspondence and Recycling News

 Claudia - Newsletter from DEEP – good links regarding recycle – perhaps we can get these links on our town website

 Mentioned article about Chicago banning plastic bags. Westport, CT only town in CT that has banned plastic bags so far Lori – Lisa Heavner sent Lori an article about recycling leftovers. Lori will send link regarding composting in TX. There use 3 bins; trash, recycle and compost.

 IDEAS: Have a composting demo at Simsbury Farmer’s market one day, maybe get Flamig Farm to do the demo or at the Simsbury Community Farm.

•Reports:

 Swap Shoppe Report – All members reviewed the schedule and are signed up.

 Banning of Styrofoam - Lori still working on reaching out to the girls scouts to see what progress they have made in regards to getting legislation in place to ban Styrofoam. No news to date. Mary is to contact Lydia Tedone of the Board of Education to see if it can be placed on the agenda. The Girl Scouts plan to attend the September Recycling Committee meeting.

 Household Circular, review and possible approval: - Lori is continuing to review the literature. A discussion of the recycling rebate took place. Lori will prepare a budget for submission to BOS for our recycle funds.

•Old Business:

We will do a program in September or October on recycling. It will be an interview conducted by SCTV with Simsbury Recycle Committee members. Dave Chase will help to coordinate.

•New Business:

 Lori met Mr. McCleary at an event where he spoke. His focus was recycle. The title of his talk is "Talking Trash". He lives in Rhode Island. He is available to speak June 30 or July 2. Lori is to see if she can find a venue for this event. It was mentioned having SCTV film it.

 Claudia talked about the Recycling Roadmap – analyze what our biggest waste stream is that is not recycled and work toward that goal – Claudia suggested it would be more effective to combine with "Keep Simsbury Beautiful."

 Claudia, who is on the Clean Energy Task Force suggested we piggyback our recycle education with Solarize Simsbury’s materials.

 Claudia mentioned the "Green Business Challenge" by committee. She suggested we implement this challenge into a simpler program for Simsbury recycle.

•Adjournment:

A motion was made by Lori to adjourn at 8:05 pm. It was seconded by Dave. The motion carried.

Respectfully submitted by Mary Turner, Ch. along with notes from Carol Miller, Member