Subject: Re: Board meeting & recycling question
From: Tom Kikta (tkikta@legat.com)
Date: Thu Jun 14 2007 - 09:14:00 CDT
Jim:
Let's recycle.
Thomas C. Kikta, AIA
Legat Architects
tkikta@legat.com
>>> Jim Thomas <jthomas@sun.soci.niu.edu> 6/14/2007 1:07 AM >>>
I'll put more detailed minutes of tonight's Board meeting up in a few
days, but one question came up that the Board would like some feedback
on: Recycling.
Currently, our waste management people are independent contractors,
not the City of Chicago, which is notoriously bad at recycling. Our
current contracts claim that they try to go through the waste and
separate out things in blue recycling bags. The problems:
--Many people in the building don't use the bags
--the trash compactor on the first floor makes it questionable
whether blue bags tossed down the chute actually are able to
be recycled
An alternative: For $36 a month, the Association can obtain a 95 gallon
recycling can. One for paper, one for metal, and one for plastics would
be 3 cans x 12 months = $1,296 a year. These would be picked up once
a week by a special truck and recycled.
The question: How much interest is there for recycling among you all?
If there is enough interest, and because as a large building we have
considerable recyclable material, the Board will pursue this if there
is enough interest.
Jim / Board sec'y
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Jim Thomas / NIU Distinguished Teaching Professor (emeritus)
Department of Sociology, Northern Illinois University
jthomas@math.niu.edu / http://www.jthomasniu.org
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