1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:16,720 Hello, this is Phil Goddard with the Town of Bourne Department of Integrated Solid Waste Management 2 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:23,600 on the Manager of Facility Compliance and Technology Development. What we do at iSWIM, we run the 3 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:29,280 recycling center, we also have the landfill, and we transfer our recyclables that are picked 4 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:34,400 up by the Department of Public Works at the curb and at the recycling center and transfer them to 5 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:41,200 market. That's our role. DPW picks up the materials and brings them, brings those to our facility 6 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:47,760 and also enforces the mandatory bylaw and quality control. And what we want to do is introduce you 7 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:54,320 to a tool that we're working on with the State Department of Environmental Protection that 8 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:59,760 we've put on our website along with the recycling committee who's on this video, Heather DePolo, 9 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:03,840 the chair, and the recycling committee and Jimmy Boyle from the DPW is on the streets every day 10 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:10,960 looking at the quality to help you as a resident understand what we want in the carts, what not 11 00:01:10,960 --> 00:01:15,760 to put in the carts, and it's a tool if there's a question you can type in a search. We're 12 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:19,280 going to do a little quick search here and then you'll get an answer whether to put it 13 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:24,480 in your cart or throw it in the trash. We'll show a PSA about what we don't want and it's a tool for 14 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:29,760 you now if you are in doubt to check it out. But if you're ever in doubt, we prefer that you put 15 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:36,400 the material in the trash so we don't contaminate our high quality recyclables that we sell on 16 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:43,760 markets around the country. So let's go to the new feature that's on our website. It's on the 17 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:48,160 Recycling and Born website, which is linked through the DPW, the Recycling Committee. 18 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:53,440 It's on the front page of the town website, townofborn.com, so I'm going to share my screen 19 00:01:54,240 --> 00:02:01,760 and we're going to go to what you will see right there and it says Recycling and Born. This is a 20 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:08,880 tool developed by a vendor with the cooperation and oversight of the Massachusetts Department 21 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:15,520 Environmental Protection that allows you to come in and type in an item. So let's just type in 22 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:24,400 an item, take out container plastic. Okay, so all right, if it's clear, it says right here, 23 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:30,960 recyclable non-black takeout containers. Black should be placed in the trash because it is 24 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:36,480 missed by optical sorters at recycling facilities and will either end up in the trash or contaminating 25 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:41,680 other materials. So this is an example of why sometimes if you think something's recyclable 26 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:48,480 or it technically could be in a hermetically sealed supply chain with all perfectly, 27 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:52,160 the reason this can't be done is because our recycling facilities that we send it to 28 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:58,720 can't detect that and it contaminates the loads for the other materials that they can sell easily. 29 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:03,920 So this is an example of how you would, okay, I think it's recyclable, but let me double check. 30 00:03:03,920 --> 00:03:08,400 So the lid in the clear containers and the takeout containers can go in the recycling cart, 31 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:14,640 but not the black bottom of the restaurant takeout container. So that's an example. 32 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:17,920 Heather, do you have one you want me to play with here? Turn it out. 33 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:23,680 What do you want to do, Jimmy? You're on the streets and you see it a lot. What would be, 34 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:28,880 do you want to do cat litter? Yeah, cat litter. Okay, let's do cat litter. This is 35 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:37,520 this is the cat litter box can be recycled, but the cat litter with the cat feces we 36 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:43,760 don't want in the recycling. Let's try another, another easy one, garden hoses. Okay, garden hoses 37 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:51,600 plastic, right? Should we put that in our cart? Put this item in your trash bin. What's another 38 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:58,880 one that's been out there? Bowling ball. They don't have that one. Okay, but styrofoam 39 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:08,640 cups and plates, but this item in your trash. You get what's that? Part parts. They're metal. 40 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:14,800 Yeah, they're not going to have that, but just for folks to be clear, 41 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:23,680 the carts at the curb are for your household items, your consumables that you buy in a store, 42 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:30,720 your containers for food and beverages. It's not the entire universe of what theoretically could 43 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:36,320 be recycled or reused. So we don't want food waste in there. We have a food waste diversion 44 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:40,320 program at the recycling center where you can bring your food waste and divert for composting 45 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:45,760 offsite. We have metal recycling for scrap metal. We don't want an engine block or your lawn 46 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:50,320 mower to be put inside the car. We don't want your TVs or electronic waste to be put in the 47 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:59,040 cart. So the cart's really for your bottles and cans, your cardboard, newspapers, those items, 48 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:02,400 and they're written right and printed right on the top of your container. 49 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:08,080 Bill, can I ask you to do one more? This one is always milk cartons. 50 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:13,040 Milk cartons. This is a great one. So milk carton. Okay, so this is going to have an 51 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:18,000 explanation to it. For most of Massachusetts, cartons should go into the trash. However, 52 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:22,560 some communities in Western Mass do recycle them. If your municipality is on this list 53 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:27,760 and it has a link, you can put cartons in your recycling bin. And just to be clear why that is, 54 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:32,160 that is a materials recovery facility that's run by the state of Massachusetts with their 55 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:38,080 contractor. They have a particular way or vendor that will take the milk cartons and they've set 56 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:44,400 up their collection system and sorting system to recover those milk cartons. I should say 57 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:48,960 that this list was prepared in cooperation with the facilities that run the recycling facilities 58 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:54,880 in the state, the companies. The other ones don't have that set up, including the one we send our 59 00:05:54,880 --> 00:06:00,720 recyclables to. So unfortunately, it becomes trash when it goes to the facility we send it to. 60 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:06,480 So unless we were to set up a separate collection, which we don't have right now, 61 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:11,760 this is going to go in the trash. That's a good question. So Bill, if I may, this is 62 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:17,600 Jen at Born TV. I have a question for you. So most folks are now aware that we can't recycle 63 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:22,480 like textiles, for example, or we're supposed to not put those in the trash. Where do we take our 64 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:30,720 textiles? Heather, I'll let you take that one. Okay. Thank you, Jen. We have been set up at 65 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:37,280 all of the Born Public School parking lots in conjunction with Bay State textiles. So they 66 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:45,920 take those and pretty much 95% of it is reused. It's either sold to be worn again or as part of 67 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:53,040 stuffing, fiberfill, that sort of a thing. But they're the white bins. And I encourage you to use 68 00:06:53,040 --> 00:07:00,560 those because the proceeds go to the Born PTA. And you could drop off any time day or night. 69 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:07,040 Oh, and that's a great option because day or night access. In addition to those containers, 70 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:12,800 ISWIM, Integrated Solid Waste Management Department, we call it affectionately ISWIM, 71 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:18,000 ISWIM, the Residential Recycling Center at McArthur Boulevard. We have three containers 72 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:23,440 that you of course can bring with your sticker. Access to the facility can bring the textiles. 73 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:28,080 We've done that for over 20 years. They continue to do that. The Recycling Committee has 74 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:35,440 added that with the PTA for even greater access. And now what you're referring to is a waste ban 75 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:40,960 on textiles. There's also a waste ban on mattresses and box springs. And ISWIM has been 76 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:46,000 recycling those for at least six years and have diverted probably 20,000 mattresses. So 77 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:50,800 you still have a way to get rid of. It just doesn't go in the landfill. We don't want it 78 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:55,040 to go in the landfill because it takes up a lot of space. But Jimmy Boyle, let's say, 79 00:07:55,040 --> 00:08:01,440 hello, Jimmy Boyle. Jimmy, work for the DPW. You're out on the streets every day. If there's 80 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:05,760 a message you want to send that you see for what you see in the cards, what would that be? 81 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:14,480 That would be the wood waste is not recyclable. Kitty live cards. Yeah. And dog 82 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:21,360 droppings are not recyclable. Right. They belong bagged. And I mean bags in 83 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:30,800 the rubbish cart. We have people taking rubbish cart and dumping dust and that type of material in 84 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:39,840 and it gets all over our drivers and labels. Good point. So we have asked that the recyclables 85 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:45,840 not be bagged, tied in a bag because the machinery at the recycling facilities 86 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:49,680 can't handle that. And it would be treated as trash. And they don't have the staff 87 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:56,400 open up and take everything out. So put everything loose in the recycling cart. The milk jugs and the 88 00:08:56,400 --> 00:09:04,640 new. Okay. But don't put trash in there like Kitty litter in your trash cart with the black lid. 89 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:09,600 What Jimmy's talking about is if you are vacuuming and you have dusty stuff, just put it in a 90 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:14,560 trash bag like you normally do. Do not put it loose in the trash cart for obvious reasons. 91 00:09:14,560 --> 00:09:17,600 We don't want that blown all over the place getting on the drivers. 92 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:22,960 So keep it clean. And if you don't know what to put in the recycling cart and you're in doubt, 93 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:26,960 throw it out. But now we have a tool that you can come to right on the recycling 94 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:32,000 inborn website through either the home page of the town or the ice from page or the recycling 95 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:38,240 committee page or the DPW page and check it out. You can also go to the recycle smart MA 96 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:44,560 dot or G. And there's articles on why plastics are worth recycling, notwithstanding what you 97 00:09:44,560 --> 00:09:49,200 might have been reading in the papers recently, we recycle milk jugs and soda bottles at a very 98 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:55,520 high rate. So take a look at that. What I want to show you as we wrap up this brief public 99 00:09:55,520 --> 00:10:00,320 announcement is a service announcement that the recycling committee did a few years ago 100 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:05,120 on why plastic bags, for example, we do not want in the trash bin. Okay. And the 101 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:08,720 recycling cart. This is a little public service announcement that we did 102 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:13,920 to emphasize that point and not bag that up. So I'm going to play that for you right now. 103 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:19,840 Wait, guys, I got my recyclables here. I want to recycle. Do the right thing. I got my plastic 104 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:24,400 bag. I got my other bag with all my bottles and pens and newspapers in it. Wait up. I 105 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:36,240 got to recycle. What happened? What happened is intentions were good, but he didn't recycle 106 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:42,320 properly. Recycling is mandatory in the town of Warren, but we need your help to recycle smart. 107 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:48,000 You can recycle metal food and beverage cans, plastic bottles, jars, jugs and tubs, 108 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:55,920 glass bottles and jars, paper, newspaper, cardboard, boxes, but do not recycle garbage. 109 00:10:55,920 --> 00:11:02,880 No plastic bags and no plastic wrap, no food or liquid, no clothing, fabric or linens, 110 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:09,280 and no tanglers such as hoses, wires, chains or electronics. Most importantly, don't 111 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:15,840 put your recyclables in a plastic bag. For more information, go to thetownofborn.com. 112 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:20,880 Click on Recycling and Born for a quick link to more information. 113 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:22,720 Thank you for Recycling Smart. 114 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:36,000 That was a really fun PSA we did, and now that same website has that tool we just demonstrated 115 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:42,320 for you to get even more information. If you have a question, pizza boxes can be recycled, 116 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:46,960 but the ones with lots of grease and food just tear that off, throw that away, 117 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:54,320 put the clean part in the recycling cart. We want quality recyclables, because that means we can 118 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:58,800 be accepted at the recycling facilities, and then recycling facilities can 119 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:04,720 sell them at domestic markets and have a way to make money, which then affects how we all 120 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:10,880 divert materials. So if we have garbage in the recycling, that only ampers that effort. 121 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:15,040 Heather, any last words that you want to say from the Recycling Committee and Jimmy Boyle, 122 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:24,560 who enforces at the curb for the DPW? Keep your cart separated three feet and wheels to the back. 123 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:32,640 Bag your trash and keep your recyclables loose. And if you don't have your rubbish or 124 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:40,800 recycling picked up, there could be a reason for it. Call the Department of Public Works at 508-759-066. 125 00:12:41,680 --> 00:12:47,200 Extension 3. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. We appreciate your recycling and 126 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:59,600 born and cooperating. Have a nice day.