Zero Waste Education Subcommittee meeting today - Tuesday 1/22 - 6:30 pm at Citizen Action

[tlieberm1]

This is a regular monthly meeting of the new Zero Waste Education Subcommittee of the Albany City Sustainability Advisory Committee.  Much of the work we do also intersects wth Zero Waste Capital District.

We meet this Tuesday night 1/22 at 6:30 pm, in the upstairs room at Citizen Action, 94 Central Avenue, Albany.  (Usually it's the 3rd Monday of the month unless that's a holiday.)

Please RSVP to tlie...@gmail.com if you are coming - but feel free to come last minute too.

If you know of anyone interested in recycling and composting that should be added to the list of invitees and/or volunteers, let Tina know.

DRAFT 1/22/19 AGENDA:

-Upcoming Zero Waste Events

-  LWV Earth Day event - date TBD

- Tulip Fest - Maybe!  May 11-12, 2019, from 11 am to 6 pm

-Show & Tell  

-Our Zero Waste Capital District Google Group is ready!

-Next Albany City Sustainability Advisory Committee meeting - Thurs. Feb 7, 5:30 pm, Albany City Hall, 2nd floor courtroom, open to the public.  

-Update on Coeyman's Clean Air Bill & Lafarge Tire Burning plan.  2 postcard writing parties coming up: 6-8 pm on Wed. 1/23 Village Pizzeria, 2381 US Route 9W, Ravena, and Mon. 1/28 at Bethlehem Public Library

-Update on DEC Food Waste Reduction grant application with Radix & Dept. of General Services

-Update on Albany County Polystyrene Ban info flier & website

-Update on FoodScraps360 - Find our GoFundMe page for Sonia here: https://www.gofundme.com/zero-waste-capital-district    All donations to help Sonia & FoodScraps360 stay afloat during this transition time are hugely appreciated!

-Update on plastic film recycling flier (Aimee & Mary)

-Outreach & Education  

-"Are you a Wishful Recycler?" flier has been submitted to DGS for review. 

-There have been two presentations at Neighborhood Assoc meetings by the Sustainability Advisory Committee Outreach Subcommittee

-Presentations to go:  Let Tina know if your organization or church/synagogue meeting wants a 20 minute presentation where we can give out recycling, composting, Zero Waste event & Styrofoam Ban info.

-Outreach to Restaurants & Organizations (needs organizers)

-Tentative Zero Waste Capital District & PAUSE meeting with County Exec's office - What waste reduction initiatives would you like to see county-wide?  Come brainstorm at the next PAUSE meeting, this Thursday Jan. 24 at 5:30 pm at Citizen Action.  Or contact Diana Wright at comph...@gmail.com.

[Timothy Truscott]

Tina, If I come to the meeting, I’ll lose my parking space (snow emergency). So I’m taking a pass on this one.

Looking forward to next Christmas, perhaps we could facilitate a more sustainable way to dispose of Christmas trees. I came across an Internet video showing a goat farmer in the Ithaca area giving discarded Christmas trees to his goats. The goats love the crunchy needles on the trees and go crazy over them! While Christmas trees at present are chipped and added to yard waste (and this is more sustainable than the previous practice of dumping them in the landfill), this would provide two sustainable methods of disposal. The denuded trees could then be chipped and added to yard waste.

Attached is the schedule for the Regional Anaerobic Digester project.

Tim Truscott empir...@att.net

On Monday, January 21, 2019, 11:17:16 PM EST, tlieberm1 <tlie...@gmail.com> wrote:

This is a regular monthly meeting of the new Zero Waste Education Subcommittee of the Albany City Sustainability Advisory Committee.  Much of the work we do also intersects wth Zero Waste Capital District.

We meet this Tuesday night 1/22 at 6:30 pm, in the upstairs room at Citizen Action, 94 Central Avenue, Albany.  (Usually it's the 3rd Monday of the month unless that's a holiday.)

Please RSVP to tlie...@gmail.com if you are coming - but feel free to come last minute too.

If you know of anyone interested in recycling and composting that should be added to the list of invitees and/or volunteers, let Tina know.

DRAFT 1/22/19 AGENDA:

-Upcoming Zero Waste Events

-  LWV Earth Day event - date TBD

- Tulip Fest - Maybe!  May 11-12, 2019, from 11 am to 6 pm

-Show & Tell  

-Our Zero Waste Capital District Google Group is ready!

-Next Albany City Sustainability Advisory Committee meeting - Thurs. Feb 7, 5:30 pm, Albany City Hall, 2nd floor courtroom, open to the public.  

-Update on Coeyman's Clean Air Bill & Lafarge Tire Burning plan.  2 postcard writing parties coming up: 6-8 pm on Wed. 1/23 Village Pizzeria, 2381 US Route 9W, Ravena, and Mon. 1/28 at Bethlehem Public Library

-Update on DEC Food Waste Reduction grant application with Radix & Dept. of General Services

-Update on Albany County Polystyrene Ban info flier & website

-Update on FoodScraps360 - Find our GoFundMe page for Sonia here: https://www.gofundme. com/zero-waste-capital- district    All donations to help Sonia & FoodScraps360 stay afloat during this transition time are hugely appreciated!

-Update on plastic film recycling flier (Aimee & Mary)

-Outreach & Education  

-"Are you a Wishful Recycler?" flier has been submitted to DGS for review. 

-There have been two presentations at Neighborhood Assoc meetings by the Sustainability Advisory Committee Outreach Subcommittee

-Presentations to go:  Let Tina know if your organization or church/synagogue meeting wants a 20 minute presentation where we can give out recycling, composting, Zero Waste event & Styrofoam Ban info.

-Outreach to Restaurants & Organizations (needs organizers)

-Tentative Zero Waste Capital District & PAUSE meeting with County Exec's office - What waste reduction initiatives would you like to see county-wide?  Come brainstorm at the next PAUSE meeting, this Thursday Jan. 24 at 5:30 pm at Citizen Action.  Or contact Diana Wright at comph...@gmail.com.

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