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A committee discussion on issues related to recycling in public places and at special events. The discussion will also cover issues related to recovering organics at special events.
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As part of the City of Madison's commitment to zero waste, the Solid Waste Advisory Committee will be discussing the status of recycling in public places such as the State Street Mall, City parks and bus shelters, and street corners. The Committee will also be looking at the recycling at special events and at issues surrounding the recovery of organics from special events. The Committee will look at how we got to our current situation, barriers to improvement and try to develop a plan to increase recovery of materials and prepare to recover more organics as we move closer to an organics program.
Notes from 8/7/14
The committee discussed issues surrounding recycling in public places and away form home. Parks does not require recycling for all of its permits. Recycling is required with events that have Street Use permits. The Concerts on the Square program is unique. They have volunteers that direct concert goers to the proper container for their material.
Areas for the committee to look at include convenience stores and gas stations, public spaces like street corners and especially parks, shopping malls. Many difference areas of responsibility. Streets, Parks, and Building Inspection are all involved in one way or another. Staff will work to get representatives form Parks and BI to attend future meetings.
Streets may wish to consider doing an audit of street corner litter containers to find out what is in them and where the greatest concentration of recyclables in the trash occurs. Corners/bus stops are hampered by lack of space for two containers. Recycling and refuse containers ned to be side by side or very close to each other for it to work.
Notes from 9/4/14
The committee did not have time to take up this item.
Notes from 3/5/2015
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