<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Moscow City Council session - January 4, 2016</div><div><br></div><div>Public Commentary - Trash and Recycling Pick-up</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/010416_06_PubCom_TrashRecyclingPickup.htm">http://www.moscowcares.com/010416_06_PubCom_TrashRecyclingPickup.htm</a><br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div></div></div><div><br>On Aug 5, 2016, at 2:14 PM, Tricia Nelson <<a href="mailto:pnelson@moscow.com">pnelson@moscow.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>I use that recycling bin as well. Approximately every 15 to 20 days. It always seem to have a lot of glass inside when I drop my glass. I have not seen or heard of any notice of removal. Where else is there a place to drop glass?<br><br>Sent from my iPhone Patricia Nelson</div><div><br>On Aug 5, 2016, at 1:25 PM, Saundra Lund <<a href="mailto:v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm">v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Please <b>do</b> let me know how they notified the people who pay the bills and when we were given the option to give input about the elimination of a service <b>we pay for</b>. There was nothing posted in advance at the bin (at least that we saw on our trips, which are every 7-10 days), no notice posted on the City’s web site, and nothing on LSI or Moscow Recycling web.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <a href="mailto:keim152@gmail.com">keim152@gmail.com</a> [<a href="mailto:keim152@gmail.com">mailto:keim152@gmail.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Darrell Keim<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 5, 2016 1:14 PM<br><b>To:</b> Saundra Lund <<a href="mailto:v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm">v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] Glass Recycling Bin GONE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I happened to be at the council meeting when this issue was decided. Don't ask me the numbers, but I recall they made the decision to discontinue this location very clear. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Sorry to hear it has inconvenienced you.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Saundra Lund <<a href="mailto:v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm" target="_blank">v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#44546A">Wow – we made our regular trip to the glass recycling bin on the east side of town (old Gilbert Auto parking lot) this morning only to find it gone . . . with no notice! Since the move to single-stream curbside recycling has excluded glass, we’ve been helping out a few friends who lack transportation and/or the physical strength/agility to haul heavy glass by taking their glass when we take ours. This is a practice I’m not sure we’ll be able to continue with the elimination of the convenient location of that bin </span><span style="font-family:Wingdings;color:#44546A">L</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#44546A"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#44546A">Supposedly, the glass recycling bin was removed due to a lack of use, although I’m not sure I find that explanation reasonable – it was unusual when we went that no one else was coming or going, and comments from nearby businesses also indicate it was frequently used in spite of the user <b>unfriendly</b> design of that particular bin.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#44546A"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#44546A">This was extraordinarily bad timing because we just received our City bill yesterday, and I’ve long noticed that our rates are significantly higher than a family member’s who lives in expensive California. They have bi-weekly single-stream curbside recycling, too, but they <b>haven’t</b> excluded glass <b>and</b> they accept more curbside recyclables than we are allowed here.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#44546A"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#44546A">I recall reading “something” a month or two after we moved to single-stream recycling that the transition was extraordinarily successful – I believe the amount of recyclables picked up doubled. It makes me really happy that the inclusion of apartment complexes has been so successful!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#44546A"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#44546A">With that enormous improvement in recycling rates, that <b>should</b> mean less is going into the landfill and/or less waste that needs to be trucked out of the area, although I don’t recall seeing anything statistics about that.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#44546A"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#44546A">However, with the decreases in service since the move to single-stream recycling as well as the laudable success of shifting recyclables out of the landfill, I’d like to know when we can expect to see a decrease in our garbage rates.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#44546A"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#44546A"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#44546A">Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#44546A">Saundra Lund</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#44546A">Moscow, ID</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#44546A"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#44546A"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#44546A">The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak out for themselves.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#44546A">~ Jane Goodall</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#44546A"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet,<br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<br> <a href="http://www.fsr.net" target="_blank">http://www.fsr.net</a><br> mailto:<a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>=======================================================<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>=======================================================</span><br><span> List services made available by First Step Internet,</span><br><span> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.</span><br><span> <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a></span><br><span> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a></span><br><span>=======================================================</span></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>=======================================================</span><br><span> List services made available by First Step Internet,</span><br><span> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.</span><br><span> <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a></span><br><span> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a></span><br><span>=======================================================</span></div></blockquote></body></html>