Monday, December 22, 2008
Status of Single Stream Recycling/Automated Collection
Below is a memo from Director of Public Works David Patek to City Manger Mark Rohloff. It was included in the packet of material received by Councilors on Friday.
I teach Communication Studies (First Amendment, Classical Rhetoric, Civic Engagement, Rhetoric of Rock Music) at UW Oshkosh. Served two terms on Oshkosh City Council. Originally from Brooklyn, NY.
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Single stream recycling has been implemented in Appleton. During the summer ECOS had a presentation on waste and recycling. During that they said that single stream takes the collection and spins and separates all the stuff.
Where I live at an apartment complex this location now has 2 depositories instead of 3. The paper collection goes in with the cans and glass in one dumpster and food waste and such goes in the trash dumpster. It seems easier for the end user to do it this way.
The Council needs to request Full Cost Accounting in order to make an informed decision.
(analysis of all costs, advantages, alternatives and findings including enviromnemntal costs- front and back end direct and indirect operating costs)
There's been WAY too many decisions based on-
"everybody else is doing it",
"we need it right now or else __*fill in the blank__, * the deal will go away, *no one else will do it, *the sky will fall, *Santa won't come to Oshkosh, etc."
and *drum roll please*
(Pick a past project, any project....)
Another $2.3 million dollars? How did we overlook that in our initial cost estimates? Now we're stuck, huh?
Enough of that.
I do think single stream may be good for Oshkosh at first glance, but in order to make a fiscally responsible decison, we really need to know more.
Will the new automated trash collection trucks be flex-fuel or bio-desiel capable?
When making captial expenditures, we should start looking at and considering all options, including renewable energies, alternative fuels and new, cost effective technologies.
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