Recycling Options for JO Event

I spoke briefly with Marty Holden of Kent County about recycling containers. As you may or may not know, Kent County has made the decision to terminate their curbside recycling program. For the event and for our normal club activities from here forward, we will need to collect, sort (glass, plastic, aluminum) and haul the recycling to the Nicholson Transfer Station. This is a decision we will need to make as a group to identify whether we think it is feasible to recycle. Clearly I would be extremely dissapointed if we did not recycle. The challenge lies with who will do the sorting and hauling. The county does not have any “corrugated” containers but does have large numbers of the small “green plastic containers;” and they are pleased to allow us use of however many of those containers we need or want.

Although they are appropriately sized for easy sorting of the contents, for the sake of this or any event, the green containers are not large enough to be useful in my opinion. Although we could station 6 or eight of them side by side at any location, I anticipate that they may result in a mess to clean up. Perhaps this is one more task for Aparecio (Laborer) and company to tend to during the continuous circuit through the site. We could also request some volunteers to help with sorting recycling after the event. If we did that, we may actually find a place that will pay even a small amount for the recycling as opposed to dropping it off at the county facility. I will follow up on other options for recouping perhaps a small amount of the cost with recycling vendors.

As a group, we need to make the following decisions:
A: Manpower
1. Use paid labor (Aparecio and company) to collect recycling from containers during the regular circuit through the site and sort into larger containers to be ready for hauling.
2. Request volunteers to tend to collect and sort during the event
3. Do not recycle at all.

B: Containers
1. Purshase larger pre-labeled and recognizable recycling containers
2. Make our own recycling containers by purchasing large plastic trash cans; cutting holes in the tops and labeling them for recycling.
3. Use the county's smaller green rectangular containers
4. Do not recycle at all.

Action Item List

Here is the spreadsheet that details all of the action items:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AhooOyuyf8mbdERLYXVaUkctdm55U3dzRzZlR2dVc3c&hl=en

April Planning Meeting

Next planning meeting is scheduled as follows:
Saturday, April 17th
10AM
RHYC

Agenda:
Updates from various committess
Board Sailor Plans
Review Action Items (I'll email these to the various committees, please come prepared with updates)

Look forward to seeing you there!

Wanda