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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> June 1 , 2006 <br /> Approved August 3, 2006 <br /> Objective 3 <br /> Action Strategy -Establish a baseline of per capita staff paper use at present for all <br /> county, and if possible municipal departments, and establish the Annual Solid <br /> Waste Advisory Board Award (plaque, trophy, or whatever) to be awarded on <br /> behalf of the SWAB to whichever entity achieves the largest annual reduction in <br /> use of paper . <br /> Action Strategy - promote the purchase of duplexing laser printers to facilitate <br /> printing on both side of the paper and providing, if necessary, training in the use <br /> of such machines . <br /> Objective 5 relating to vehicles and air quality . <br /> Action Strategy - task the Solid Waste Advisory Board with evaluating waste <br /> handling truck haul routes with respect to efficiency and fuel use . <br /> All Objectives <br /> Action Strategy -Urge BOCC and Municipal elected officials to enact appropriate <br /> regulations that would require a formal assessment of Environmental <br /> Responsibility for all relevant actions that would require BOCC or Municipal <br /> approval . This assessment would answer such questions as - does this require more <br /> energy, and what are the alternatives, does it require lots of paper and what are <br /> the alternatives, can it be conducted so as to reduce overall impacts on the <br /> environment, does it require staff to drive more and / or farther than present, etc . ) ? <br /> Such an evaluation should, at a minimum, be carried out for all new county <br /> government construction projects . <br /> Norwood states that she is very interested in Objective 5 . Is it more important for the <br /> truck drivers to get back to wherever they punch out at to leave the trucks running so <br /> that the driver can make the time or is it more cost effective to shut the truck off, save <br /> the gas and just pay the driver ? <br /> Wilson states that it would obviously be beneficial not to leave the truck running . We <br /> are in the process of evaluating some GPS units to find out if trucks are sitting or <br /> moving . We are aware of the issue [of sitting and idling waiting for the end of a shift] <br /> and will be dealing with it . <br /> Clayton asks Bonnie which trucks are you seeing - County, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, <br /> Waste Industries ? It would be hard to make policy for other departments or entities . <br /> Norwood states that she cant say exactly which trucks they were . <br /> Sassaman states that we are not making policy . We are giving suggestions in <br /> response to the chair of the BOCC . He states that he has put this in as a way to state <br /> 4 <br />