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Minutes Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> November 5, 2009 <br /> Approved December 3, 2009 <br /> Pollock states that while I am not involved in the scheduling of the convenience <br /> centers, but it makes sense on the face of it. When the system was started in 1993 <br /> there was a set schedule because it was predictable, everyone in the county knew <br /> what was going on, it was simple, it was a good message to communicate and it <br /> doesn' t mean that it can' t change . It has been an effective system, but systems change <br /> because peoples' needs change . <br /> I will speak briefly to the earlier points about markets for materials and occasional <br /> collection and potential savings from varying the collection schedule or having special <br /> collections . In respect to markets, the way that Orange County has approached <br /> materials markets has been fairly conservative and has served us well . Only once in <br /> 22 years have we had to rescind a market [program] because of problems of <br /> unavailability and that was due to [not[ making sure that there were at least two <br /> markets and that they were proven markets - they are not all reliable, particularly <br /> with respect to plastics . We have stuck to the ' all bottles' message for about 11 years <br /> because it is effective and we know we can market bottles . Others may collect <br /> clamshells etc . but they are not necessarily recycled . We are now recycling the rigid <br /> computer plastics and we are using that as a springboard to collect all rigid plastics . <br /> Last year when the markets were good, money was made which has taken us through <br /> this bad time . <br /> On the notion of ' Are there materials to be collected like tires at a quarterly event? ' , it <br /> is worth exploring . I ' m not sure at this point if there is a huge advantage to shifting to <br /> quarterly collection because the hauling is so infrequent. I dor t know that we' ll <br /> realize savings from it. As far as hazardous waste collection goes, we are one of the <br /> few counties in the state that has a permanent household hazardous waste collection. <br /> When we had monthly events, we got to the point where we were servicing 300 cars <br /> on that one day a month, so we went to six days a week . I ' m not sure how a curbside <br /> collection of hazardous waste would work . <br /> ing it done at the convenience centers on a <br /> Hauser states that we suggested hav <br /> quarterly basis . <br /> Sassaman states that since the Fire Departments are particularly concerned and they <br /> are trained in handling hazardous waste, they would need to be licensed, maybe they <br /> would be interested in collaborating with the [Solid] Waste Department to serve that <br /> function periodically . <br /> Hauser states that she will ask the volunteer fire department network . These light <br /> bulbs (compact fluorescents) classify as a hazardous waste also, we could start to <br /> introduce getting people to throw [keep them out of the garbage] those out. <br /> 10 <br />