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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> September 3, 2009 <br /> Approved November 5, 2009 <br /> Vickers states that most planter boxes are not but these were specifically states as <br /> recyclable . I thought [it] was an oversight. <br /> Taylor states that most planters are [high density] polyethylene or HDPE and they <br /> will be welcomed in the grade of plastics that will be called rigid plastics, but they are <br /> still not welcomed in the mix of materials that goes to the processing facility that get <br /> the stuff from curbside recycling . <br /> Bowerman asks what about the clear ones that all food comes in. <br /> Pollock states the clam shell type take out containers won' t have a market. <br /> Tipton states that I almost feel like with the planning process that you all have in your <br /> mind what you want to do or least a good idea . One method of negotiation is a single <br /> document plan which going forward having a plan and having it picked apart. It <br /> might be time to put together the plan or vision as you all see it and present it and let <br /> it be picked apart or tweaked or understood . Everything you' ve talked about makes <br /> sense to me, but I think it has to be presented almost as a whole with some exceptions <br /> and not mixing too many things together . <br /> Sassaman states that it seems that a good bit of it is identified . We have implemented <br /> a few things already . It might be time to go ahead and write the plan and if there are <br /> a couple of areas where there are alternatives, highlight those . <br /> Tipton states that it could start out with a map with the county locations and the <br /> convenience centers and say they will collect these things and other things will be <br /> collected through franchising . Paint the picture . Put it out there and see what <br /> happens . <br /> Sassaman states that this process that Blair is following came from the idea of trying <br /> to get the elected officials involved in the planning process . <br /> Wilson states that perhaps then at the October workgroup meeting staff could create a <br /> straw man rural plan, bring it in, have it discussed, altered by the work group . That is <br /> doable . The one little caveat would be [that] our original plan was to have a system <br /> put together to integrate one part of the system to another . For instance [for] the rural <br /> section we could calculate cost but if you add residential and commercial and rural <br /> with some other programs and integrate the service and some of the resources you <br /> may come up with a different cost than the component by itself. <br /> Tipton agrees . So start painting those pictures and having those things, but I feel like <br /> there are too many variables or too many things going on; until we get something we <br /> 17 <br />