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Communication received 3/25/2022
Mr. Cairns,
Due to technical issues, the SWAC meeting held today (3/24/2022) was not accessible to the
public via the Zoom link posted in the Agenda notice. Only SWAC members who received Zoom
invitations were permitted to attend.
Apparently, no testing was done prior to the meeting to confirm that the public would be able
access the meeting. That’s a serious problem that I hope you will address.
My primary reason for wanting to attend today’s meeting was to make the following Public
Comments:
FIRST
The minutes of the January SWAC meeting state that there was a new recycling flyer,
and that it was to be made widely available before the new recycling rules take effect on
April 1, 2022.
No new flyer has appeared since then
• in the PT Leader,
• in the PDN,
• on the Jefferson County website,
• in the SWAC minutes,
• in the Laserfiche folders for the January and today’s meetings
• …
Is short, there has been essentially ZERO communication to the public explaining the
new recycling rules.
So, when people show up over the next few weeks with loads of unacceptable,
contaminated recycling, the SWAC has only itself to blame.
SECOND
The lid of a typical metal can (food) accounts for 14% of the metal that could be recycled
from such a can. The current “no lids” policy means that the recycling program is failing
to capture 14% of the potential revenue from those cans. Similarly, the metal tops of
glass jars are prohibited and therefore the recycling facility is failing to capture additional
revenue.
Why not provide a separate, small bin where metal lids from all sources could be
captured and subsequently compacted into a form that would be acceptable to the metal
recyclers?
Please distribute my comments to the members of the SWAC so that they can “hear” what I
intended to say via Zoom.
Thank you,
Tom Thiersch
Jefferson County, WA