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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council <br />Monday, February 25, 2019 <br />Page 4 <br />about how China no longer accepts any of it. They don't want to be America's dumping ground <br />anymore. So now your recyclables need to be a lot cleaner. The next thing on the list is going to <br />be glass. <br />Council President Saponaro asked, that they are not going to accept? <br />Mr. Metzung replied, right now they are not accepting glass in Akron because there is just no <br />market for it. Please remember that as we vote on our Solid Waste District. <br />Council President Saponaro asked, so in essence what we do is we throw it in the regular <br />garbage? <br />Mr. Metzung replied, correct. <br />Council President Saponaro stated, and then we put it in the landfills and let nature take its <br />course? <br />Mr. Metzung replied, until there is a market for it, all of the little thin plastic covers and all that <br />kind of stuff, there's just nowhere for them. It's kind of like the little plastic bags. That's <br />something they do not recycle either. <br />Council President Saponaro asked, does anyone have any questions on this? <br />Mr. Marquardt asked, how do you manage that? <br />Mr. Metzung stated, it's very bad. I would imagine the City of Cleveland is going to have a hard <br />time getting a recycling bid next time they go out to bid. <br />Mr. Marquardt stated, just throw it in the garbage. Forget it, right? <br />Mr. Metzung stated, there's the dilemma. House Bill 125 I believe it was, says that they had to <br />create Solid Waste Districts and in those Solid Waste Districts part of their call was they had to <br />reduce their trash by 25%. That was done through recycling. They still have to meet those <br />mandates. It gets a little more stringent all the time meeting those mandates. You can't expect <br />your haulers or recycling companies to take in product they can't get rid of. <br />Mr. Marquardt asked, who separates it? <br />Mr. Metzung replied, it goes down to material and handling facilities where they separate the <br />materials. Anyone who ever wants to go see that, it's pretty amazing. I would be happy to set <br />that up and take everyone down to Kimble's place to watch them work. It is done by magnets <br />and things like that to get the metals and that, but a lot of it's done by hand still. It's pretty <br />amazing to watch, but there is still too much contamination that reaches into a bundle, so when <br />that bundle gets bundled up and they send it off to whoever is going to recycle it, they tear it <br />down and it's got all this other stuff that they can't use. It drives the price down. The user ends <br />up not accepting this product from these material and handling facilities. It's really bad on the