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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council <br />Tuesday, February 21, 2012 <br />Page 17 <br />to come in and pick up your recycling and solid waste, that's what it costs for them to come in <br />front of your home. Then they charge us $39 a ton to dispose of your solid waste. They don't <br />charge us anything to process the recycling, nor did they give us a credit for it either. In that <br />regard, they take the guesswork out of whether or not the mazket is up or the market is down. <br />They are just going to do it. <br />Dr. Parker stated, we obviously save money by not throwing recyclables into the standard waste. <br />Council President Buckholtz added, because you are lowering the tonnage. <br />Mr. Metzung stated, when we looked at those options, it was if you would go to the 64 gallon <br />toter and you looked to really maximi?e your recycling, you could reduce your solid waste <br />numbers and then you can potentially save more money. <br />Council President Buckholtz stated, reduce tha.t $39 per ton figure. <br />Mr. Metzung stated, you just reduce your tonnage. You have less going out. <br />Dr. Parker stated, I find it hard to believe that if someone is recycling their newspapers and their <br />plastics they are not doing it now and they are not going to do the same later on. If someone <br />isn't recycling, what's to make you do it? What's having a bigger tote making you do it? <br />Mr. Metzung replied, the numbers go up. They doubled in Orange Village when they went to the <br />cart. <br />Dr. Pazker asked, to the cart? <br />Mr. Metzung replied, yes. <br />Dr. Parker asked, but not the tote? <br />Mr. Metzung replied, well, same thing. 64 gallon. The recycling numbers doubled. <br />Dr. Parker stated, I know from my personal experience, and I guess we haven't done necessarily <br />a survey among the Village, but from my personal experience, I don't see how I would have any <br />more recycling than I have. I have what I ha.ve on average and that's what it is. If I'm recycling, <br />I'm recycling. If I'm not, I'm not. <br />Mr. Marrie stated, I tlunk I plead guilty to it and I think everybody else does too. I think that the <br />recycling that once you get into the big one you will put more recyclable items in there that you <br />wouldn't have before such as cardboard and so forth. I think you would just recycle more. <br />There's no doubt in my mind you will. <br />Mr. Mazquardt stated, I don't know. I have three adults in the house. We don't fill up the 18 <br />gallon one and we recycle most of the things. It takes us iwo weeks to fill it up. I think the 64 is <br />just overkill.