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Canton Sustainability Minutes Sept 9 2019
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Canton Sustainability Committee Minutes September 9, 2019 – 7:00 pm Canton Public Library – Maker Space Room 786 Washington Street, Canton, MA Members Present: Patricia McDermott, Christine Smith, Andrea Stuart, Trish Boyden, Tim Calabrese Public: Glenn Shane Review and Approval of August2019minutes – on hold until October for members who were present at August meeting to approve. Presentation by Kerrie Vaughn, Bay State Textile Recycling: Bay State uses recycling bins; they are serviced weekly. Can service more often if needed. Town gets rebate of $.05/pound (or $100/ton) They usually start with one bin; can add more if needed. Boxes can be logo-ed if we needed. After pickup, it is sorted and graded. Baystate can put together info for the Town to send to residents about availability. Moved by Trish Boyden to recommend Bay State Textile Recycling to Town Administrator, Patti McDermott seconded. Unanimously voted. September 23: Recycling Presentation. Christine Smith will email Town Administrator to ask someone from the Town be in attendance. MA DEP Grant Options: In order to do Recycling IQ, we would need audit of trash/recycling pickup. This isnot part of Recycling IQ. Questions: -How do we do an audit? We would need people to volunteer to ride along with Republic and see where there are problems along the route and then work with Republic. We need to coordinate with DPW. Christine will include this information in request to Town Administrator. Status of Energy Aggregation Proposal: Christine will email Town Administrator to request to present to BOS. Open Discussion: Member of public asked about water conservation as a priority. The members agreed that water conservation is important and would consider looking at this after getting through current proposals. Member of the public also was interested in water usage. Discussion about water usage in the town. The members indicated that water usage was not under the purview of this committee. Adjourned 8:30.