[Green] Recycling bin proposal

[gbanz42 at suddenlink.net]

Dawn:

    Thanks for your work   on revising our recycling process. I understand what you're trying to do and basically  agree with the intentions. 

    Will it not work to collect the combined recyclables periodically (maybe once a month by someone from the GS Committee) and take it to the Recycling Center--rather than pay Rumpke $30/month for weekly pick-up.  We might be able to go 2-4 months without emptying a combined container of recyclables.

    Is your intention to address this request to the FUUSM Board (you mentioned "Council")? Since this involved a financial issue, it might better start with the Finance Committee.

    Please call if you would like to discuss.


---- Dawn Hewitt via Green <green at fuusm.org> wrote: 
> Dear Green Sanctuary Member,
> 
> Attached, please find the first draft of the proposal we discussed at today’s meeting to ask the FUUSM Council to rent a mixed-recyclables collection bin. 
> 
> As I was typing it, I realized that we’d still need THREE recycling bins in the kitchen: one for aluminum that we (i.e., Mike Bailey) collect to sell for GSC spending money; one for the mixed-recyclables that would be regularly and frequently emptied into the outdoor bin we are proposing; and one for the plastics that Rumpke does not accept. (For reasons I don’t understand, at least for curbside residential recycling, Rumpke accepts only bottle-shaped plastics. On the other hand, the Marietta Recycling Center accepts plastics numbers 1,2,4 and 5, and plastic bags). So, we’d still need three bins in the kitchen.
> 
> Please read my proposal and feel free to either send me your comments, or edit this file directly (using MS-Word Review would be helpful, so I can see our changes)— or both!
> 
> Meanwhile, I will write a brief primer on recycling in FUUSM for the December Confluence.
> 
> Thanks, friends!
> 
> —dawn

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