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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council <br />Monday, February 25, 2019 <br />Page 5 <br />west coast because that's where they send everything. The talk is hopefully in a few years the <br />Americans will start to go back into this business of recycling plastics. China had been taking it <br />and giving a decent dollar for it so everybody was just sending it to China. <br />Council President Saponaro asked, so has your counterparts or other communities, has anyone <br />been addressing this or having discussions on it? <br />Mr. Metzung replied, the Solid Waste District is. That's why these recycling awareness grants <br />are out there to help get that word out. You are going to hear more. The recycling haulers are <br />getting hit very hard so they have already started bumping up prices for private haulers for <br />people they contract with. Some of the communities around here still do their own recycling <br />pick-up. Lyndhurst does it. Some of the others do their own in-house. They formed a <br />consortium within that to send their recyclables through this consortium that Solid Waste helped <br />put together. They are going to see an increase in their cost to do that. <br />Council President Saponaro asked, they are still taking it? <br />Mr. Metzung replied, they are still taking it at this time. <br />Council President Saponaro stated, so we need to create the dialogue. <br />Mr. Metzung stated, what it's going to come down to is the consumer purchasing products that <br />come in recyclable containers so you don't go out and buy the wrapped kind of things or fruits in <br />plastic containers. Someone is going to have to make a container out of cardboard. <br />Council President Saponaro stated, or they go back to do what our grandmothers did. They kept <br />every container, washed it, reused it and when they passed away they had 400 of them. <br />Mr. Metzung stated, you see it with people bringing their own bags to the grocery stores and <br />things of that nature. That's really where the pressure is going to have to come from is the <br />consumer to say you need to package your products in a way that it can be recycled. <br />Ms. Wolgamuth stated, in the last TTOice of the Village, we did a 2-page spread on plastics and <br />reducing plastics. There were a bunch of hints of what you can do. People are taking their own <br />containers when they go to a restaurant for their take-home or leftovers. The next issue, Susan <br />and I are going to work on putting something out about what is now acceptable and what is not. <br />Council President Saponaro stated, very good. <br />Mr. Metzung continued, tree trimming is progressing. They should be done hopefully by the end <br />of the week which was their cut-off at which time Frank Stupczy, the arborist will go out with <br />them and tour it and make sure that everything is good. <br />Mr. Metzung stated, lastly, we are enjoying the heat from our new boiler which was turned on <br />today. Thank you for that.