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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> January 15, 2009 <br /> Approved February 5, 2009 <br /> Sassaman states that that is a question for the BOCC . They are the ones that selected <br /> the sites and went through the process . <br /> Wilson states that the Board developed a set of criteria and a set of weighting and <br /> ranking factors that resulted in the final group of sites . Why both the sites are larger <br /> than 25 acres ? There is talk about future alternative technologies and it will need to <br /> go somewhere too . The size is also to minimize the impacts on surrounding <br /> community with larger buffers . <br /> Grunwald states that there is a new children' s product safety law which goes into <br /> effect February 10th which states that any product that is not certified safe cannot be <br /> sold, which was the original law . Last week there was clarification that exempted <br /> thrift stores and second resellers . There is a concern that all children' s' used products <br /> will be thrown into the landfill . This may be something that whoever does the <br /> communication may want to get out as information. <br /> Wilson asks where the information is being disseminated from . <br /> Grunwald states that working with kids I ' m always looking at stuff from various <br /> groups but it' s on the Federal Government' s web site . <br /> Wilson states that it may be that this is something the schools system should be <br /> providing some information on . Blair will check into it. <br /> Sassaman states that the recycling collection has being doing welli my area . Also <br /> since Hary is here the garbage collectors are doing a good job and are very pleasant. <br /> Vickers asks how has the cardboard collection been. <br /> Wilson states that there have been a few problems in the first couple of weeks . People <br /> were putting out too much or not cutting it down. Most of that has been resolved and <br /> they [recycling collectors] are leaving tags of what they [the public] need to do . <br /> Pollock states that there is still some confusion about pizza boxes . It is OK to put <br /> them in the trash and it is OK to put them in the recycling if they are clean of food . <br /> Also today at the landfill they have started to do the mock ticketing on residential <br /> loads that contain more than the threshold amount of cardboard . The mock ticketing <br /> will continue through March 1 when the real ticketing will begin. Notification was <br /> sent out to all the haulers that this was happening . <br /> Speaking with Carrboro assistant to the Public Works director, they will be putting <br /> out stickers on all the [single family garbage] carts in Carrboro that say " no cardboard <br /> 2 <br />