INC NEWS - Solid and Yard Waste being mixed before transporting

[Barry Ragin]

More to the point, Bill, why are we paying sixty dollars a year for the 
privilege of unnecessarily sorting our yard waste from our household 
waste? If the city doesn't do away with this fee in the upcoming fiscal 
year, everyone who participated in the program during fiscal 07, and 
supported it financially, should be getting a credit towards next year's 
program.

Barry Ragin

TheOcean1 at aol.com wrote:
> The neighborhood delegate who brought up this issue might wish to 
> chime in....
>  
> But from my perspective the question seemed more poised from an 
> environmental stand point.
> Glad to know we are fiscally responsible, but if yard waste and 
> garbage are being mixed, it begs the question of why we are being so 
> careful not to mix them at the curb.
>  
> Anyone else feel for the new neighbor who rakes their lawn and puts 
> plastic bags by the curb? We all secretly wonder how long the 
> bags will sit there before the new neighbor realizes they are not 
> going to be picked up.
> If we're mixing yard waste and garbage, those bags need not sit there 
> for eternity, they could be added to a garbage cart with extra room.
>  
> What a nice way to meet your neighbor who doesn't know the system, 
> perhaps doesn't speak English. Offer to top off your trash cart with 
> one of their leaf bags, so they don't become permanent features of the 
> neighborhood, while you explain the system to them.
>  
> In short, if yard waste and home waste are eventually mixed, why 
> shouldn't we mix them at the curb?
>
> Bill Anderson
>  
> In a message dated 5/24/2007 9:03:14 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
> harrisdl2003 at yahoo.com writes:
>
>     Hi all
>
>     Action item from Tuesday's INC meeting referencing Solid and Yard
>     waste being mixed before being transported from Durham's transfer
>     station to the landfill in Virginia.
>
>      
>
>     On Wednesday May 23rd, City Manager Patrick Baker presented us
>     with a letter dated December 18, 2006 from NCDENR (North Carolina
>     Department of Environment and Natural Resources) to Donald Long,
>     Director of Durham's SWM, permitting Durham to transport solid and
>     yard waste in the same truck from Durham's transfer station to
>     Brunswick Waste Management Facility, LLC Landfill located in
>     Brunswick, Virginia.
>
>      
>
>     There is a lengthy explanation for this action in which I will not
>     go into, other than to say the action is cost effective and good
>     stewards of Durham's financial resources.
>
>      
>
>     /David Harris/
>     /919-906-2023/
>
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