Subject: RE: Board meeting & recycling question
From: Robin Raffel (raffs23@sbcglobal.net)
Date: Thu Jun 14 2007 - 16:12:00 CDT
for recycling
robin 713
Dom Shurba <shurbadom@hotmail.com> wrote:
For recycling
Dom 612
>From: Jim Thomas
>Reply-To: vanguard-talk@venus.soci.niu.edu
>To: Vanguard Lofts Listserv
>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
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 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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