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Team plans recycling education push, explores plastic-film drop-off and mattress-processing video
Summary
Members agreed to host two educational videos showing recycling processing and mattress breakdown on the town website and considered a Ridwell-style collection for hard-to-recycle items and a plastic-film drop-off location; plastic-film leadership will wait one month for Tanya to advance plans.
The East Haddam Sustainability Team agreed to publish two short educational videos — one showing single-stream recycling processing and another on mattress recycling — to clarify what happens to recyclables and to counter widespread misconceptions that locally collected recyclables are simply trashed.
"People just need to see it," a participant said about the recycling process video. The chair said she will send the videos to the webmaster or the designated contact for posting and that the team should link the videos in Easttown News articles.
Nora suggested exploring a paid collection service model (similar to Ridwell) for hard-to-recycle items such as bottle caps and snack wrappers and recommended investigating costs and school outreach opportunities. The team also discussed plastic-film recycling and agreed to give Tanya one month to advance a timeline; if there is no progress the team will identify another lead to move the drop-off plan forward.
Members noted transfer-station operations and budgets matter to recycling outcomes and discussed sharing a video that shows how recyclables are sorted and where materials go, to dispel community uncertainty about the local recycling stream.
