Subject: RE: Board meeting & recycling question
From: david parker (daparker@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Jun 14 2007 - 09:49:33 CDT
I think this is a great idea. The cost is minimal and we need to do what we
can to ensure that the materials that can be recycled actually are being
recycled. The move toward sustainability needs to take place on a grassroots
level and this is an easy way to get it started in our building.
Dave
Unit 514
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From: Jim Thomas <jthomas@sun.soci.niu.edu>
Reply-To: vanguard-talk@venus.soci.niu.edu
To: Vanguard Lofts Listserv <vanguard-talk@venus.soci.niu.edu>
Subject: Board meeting &recycling question
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:07:02 -0500 (CDT)
>
>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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