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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> August 6, 2009 <br /> Approved September 3, 2009 <br /> Yuhasz asks if flyers were provided at the Bradshaw Quarry site to show the locations <br /> of the other sites . <br /> Thomas states that they were provided and there is a poster on the informational <br /> board which shows the map of the alternative locations . The banners for the [revised] <br /> hours go up on Monday . <br /> Pollock asks is there an estimate of how many mattresses are handled at the <br /> convenience centers for this fiscal year . <br /> Thomas replies no because it all goes into the roll-offs and only measured by tons and <br /> then goes into C &D . <br /> Pollock states that Rob Taylor, Recycling Programs Manager, stated that [we are] <br /> starting to get some illegal dumping of mattress at the drop -off sites which is <br /> something relatively new . <br /> Vickers - inaudible (he says something about other options of getting rid of <br /> mattresses) <br /> Thomas states that all the Towns offer collection. Hillsborough is the only one that <br /> does not charge for the service . Most mattress companies that deliver will take away <br /> your old mattress . <br /> 4 . Solid Waste Management Planning Work Group Sassaman states that for the past <br /> year we have had this on the back burner . It is time to get back to the planning <br /> process . A number of things that were discussed early on have come to fruition. <br /> Particularly in Chapel Hill where now cardboard is collected at the curb . [True for all <br /> curbside recycling locations, not just Chapel Hill . ] The memo you received <br /> summarizes where we are and where we need to go . <br /> Pollock states that after four years of this we are hoping to wrap things up . A couple <br /> of things to highlight [include] what has been done to date, what decisions have been <br /> made and how we want to proceed . We have discussed and had some analysis of the <br /> drop -off sites and the convenience centers with particular respect to recycling but <br /> there has also been some work done on alternative ways of financing the convenience <br /> centers including pay by the bag or piece and how to upgrade the centers . <br /> If you look back at the report highlighted in the memo there is enough information <br /> there for the work group to pull together some decision making about those . One <br /> thing that is important is that we need to affirm the need to keep the dropoff system . <br /> While you have discussed this internally, you have not addressed it formally to the <br /> BOCC . We continue to see a third or more of our recyclables coming from the drop- <br /> 2 <br />