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checking closely on tonnage and type of garbage in order to <br />further define the benefitted people and be sure they are charged <br />for what they are generating. Recycling is a big issue. There <br />is an up and down market for newspapers and also for aluminum <br />cans. However, the entire state now will be required to recycle <br />30% of our waste; so, the market will be flooded with recyclable <br />material, and Director Pinto foresaw that eventually instead of <br />someone paying us for these goods, we will be paying them to take <br />them away. He advised that we will not be separating this <br />material at our Landfill. We will be receiving a proposal for an <br />update of our master plan to comply with the current law, but it <br />looks as if we will have separate bins at our own transfer <br />stations for the people themselves to separate glass, aluminum <br />and newspapers. Director Pinto felt the people must be mainly <br />responsible for separation. <br />Director Pinto continued that plastic bags present a major <br />problem in waste disposal, and he anticipated coming to the Board <br />and asking that we eliminate the use of all plastic bags in the <br />county operation. Also, after July 1st, we will not be able to <br />put a whole tire into the Landfill; they must be shredded in some <br />manner. Construction materials must be separated. White goods <br />such as refrigerators and stoves can no longer be placed in the <br />Landfill; so, we have our hands full working out how we are going <br />to handle all this. He cautioned that no matter what process you <br />get into to handle garbage flow, you still will need your <br />Landfill, and we, therefore, must continue to look at all <br />alternatives to reduce flow into the Landfill. <br />Septage and sludge are a major problem at the Landfill, and <br />we are proceeding with the development of a septage and sludge <br />treatment facility, which is approximately a 6 million dollar <br />project. We have received an$1.8 million grant because the state <br />and federal government recognize the problem and under a new <br />funding program, we are attempting to get an additional$1.9 <br />million from the DER in the form of a 20 year loan at a low <br />3 <br />N O V 11 1988 <br />BOOK 75 Dr.,E 195 <br />