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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board December 6, 2007 Approved February 7, 2008 one year . The reason for that is mixed paper at the curb and continuing education. I have the smallest [curbside rollcart] waste container in the State at 68 gallons . Then you get to the question of the stuff that is still out there . Are there plastic bottles, aluminum cans and other stuff still in the waste stream that can be recycled . The answer is ' yes' . We' ve done a pretty good job educating but the population turns over a lot. The curbside cardboard would be nice for the residential portion. If you work through the concept of PAYT there has to be a reason why you want to do it. One is to recapture the cost of doing business . That opens up conversations about if it' s a regressive tax or not. Another is to reduce the solid waste going into the landfill. That is a key good reason to do it. The residential tonnage was 8,700 or 8,800 tons a year when the town was a lot smaller in 1987 when recycling started . Sassaman opens comments to the guests . Campbell states that in observing in and around Chapel Hill as I clean buildings, the compactor behind the courthouse in downtown Chapel Hill on a given weekend there are beer bottles, aluminum cans, tin cans and even wood that end up in the compactor . If you go down around Big Frat court or Little Frat court, the sororities on Pittsboro Road and even down to Lenoir dining hall, there are aluminum cans and metal cans in those compactors . Education is a good thing to have if you educate the ones that are actually using those sites . Where we fall short is where we allow those types of facilities to police themselves . If there were someone from solid waste that went around to these sites and was aware of what was going on and target the ones that are using those sites . I know the law is going to change for those that have a liquor license but there are some that use those sites where they have gone and cleaned up buildings and don' t have access to the private facility to get rid of their waste; they use those because the compactor behind the courthouse doesn' t stay locked . It' s broken. At Carrboro Plaza on the weekend you see private pickup trucks use that site to drop off waste including recyclables in the waste . This stuff has to be coming into the landfill. How do you separate it when they are doing it on a regular basis ? We are talking about a recycling program that will expand the life of the landfill, my understanding is that we set a goal of that we would close the landfill at a certain time . I understand there is a need for recycling, I understand there is a need for solid waste but at the same time there is not a need for Eubanks Road neighborhood to be subjected to solid waste and facilities . If you are more stringent to those that use these facilities that have the resources, that have their own compactors how are you going to be able control this . I still say that the University is one of the largest producers of waste but they are not on a real mandatory recycling program . There are a lot of their aluminum cans that end up in these containers . Even the waste from the hospitals and Lenoir Dining Hall and food service -- they have a lot of food waste, cans, paper products in all going into the same bin. If we want the residents to be more concerned 7