Subject: Re: Board meeting & recycling questio
From: Manosh John (manoshjohn@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jun 14 2007 - 20:03:01 CDT
Recycle.
Manosh
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On 6/14/07, Jeff Cook <jeffcook35@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Recycle.
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> Jeff
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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)
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> >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
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> >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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