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15.B.4. STYROFOAM RECYCLING IN INDIAN RIVER COUNTY AND REQUEST FOR <br />APPROVAL OF A SUB -LEASE AGREEMENT WITH RECYCLE TECH <br />CORPORATION <br />Director Mehta presented the new program that will become effective October 1, 2008, <br />by recapping his Memorandum dated September 15, 2008. Since the Styrofoam service could <br />not be provided curb side, staff looked at a grant opportunity, as Polk County has done, for a <br />Styrofoam recycling program. This grant would provide for the distribution of Expanded <br />Polystyrene (EPS), equipment at landfill locations and Convenience Centers throughout the <br />County. The machines could reduce the volume of EPA by a ratio of 90:1 by crushing, heating, <br />and compacting the end product so to be sold back to the manufacturers, generating a small <br />revenue for the County. He reiterated that residents should not put Styrofoam products in their <br />recycle bins, but to take it to the landfills or Convenience Centers for recycling. <br />ON MOTION by Commissioner Flescher, SECONDED by <br />Commissioner O'Bryan, the Board by a 3-0 vote (Chairman <br />Bowden and Commissioner Wheeler absent) approved <br />starting a Styrofoam recycling program in Indian River <br />County by approving the Sub -Lease Agreement with <br />RecycleTech Corporation, and authorized the Chairman to <br />execute the Agreement, as recommended in the memorandum <br />of September 15, 2008. <br />AGREEMENT ON FILE IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK TO THE BOARD <br />September 23, 2008 7 <br />S.W.D.D. <br />