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Committee reviews contamination-reduction plan: curbside audits, RFID tags and oops tags proposed
Summary
At the May 13 meeting of the Environmental Quality and Public Works Committee, Director Baldwin presented a contamination-reduction plan that proposes curbside audits with green/yellow/red tags, RFID testing, permanent cart labeling and expanded outreach to reduce recycling contamination.
Director Baldwin (Division of Waste Management) and staff briefed the Environmental Quality and Public Works Committee on May 13 on a contamination-reduction plan developed by a new work group formed after the waste digester task force.
Baldwin said the work group began meeting in January and reported a high contamination rate in the cityrecycling stream: "our contamination rate for recycling, is currently sitting at about 35%" and the yard-waste stream was about 60% at the time of the staff report. He said the groupapproach combines three strands: staff training and empowerment (facility tours, frontline audits), public information and engagement (postcards, events, relaunch of recycling education), and an enforcement-backed process to change behavior.
Staff proposed a pilot curbside audit program with green/yellow/red tags: green for acceptable collection, yellow for a…
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