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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> May 1 , 2008 <br /> Approved June 5, 2008 <br /> More Issues for consideration in <br /> I <br /> ong - term plan <br /> 14 Adding more materials to recycling ; <br /> U Changing collection containers to carts and single - <br /> stream recycling ( how to pay for carts ? ) ; . <br /> M Residential Pay - As - You - Throw . <br /> *t Transfer Station siting and development <br /> w ' ( Part of separate process now being led directly, by <br /> BOCC , but site could include other solid waste <br /> activities . ) <br /> Regulatory approaches will boil down to mandates and bans or using various <br /> economic incentives . <br /> Organics management will focus on do we focus on the remaining big generators like <br /> grocery stores . Do we want to capitalize our own composting plant. How much <br /> methane producing food waste do we want to extract. <br /> How to get more materials ? Do we change to single stream? Does the improved <br /> technology enable better sorting with less residual? We choose to keep fiber separate <br /> and get good prices . <br /> Also where will we get $1 . 5 million for 30, 000 carts ? <br /> Long term planning also includes transfer station and you took that on last year . If <br /> the Board gets 25 acres they could accommodate more activities at the site ? That <br /> could be a place where the advisory board plays a role . Does it make sense to put <br /> other activities there (or not) ? <br /> Sassaman asks regarding residential organic materials, in the past the department has <br /> sponsored the sale of compost bins, is there any sense of the percentage of households <br /> that might be actually, faithfully, diligently composting? <br /> Pollock states that the surveys we conducted when we sold the bins was half the <br /> people that bought bins indicated that a big part of the drive was that could now <br /> compost kitchen waste without having to worry about vermin . I don ' t know for <br /> certain. We have sold over the last six years about 2, 000 bins . If you think there are <br /> 38, 000 single family homes in the county is that extrapolating to what other people <br /> were doing beforehand or with chicken wire bins, can we say 10 percent. That is a <br /> reasonable number . <br /> Wilson states that it might be like 2 percent. <br /> Thomas asks what about worm bins, are those having an impact. <br /> 4 <br />