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Canton Sustainability Minutes Sept13 2021
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Canton Sustainability Committee Agenda and meeting Minutes September 13, 2021 – 7:00 pm Via Zoom Attendees: Christine. Erin, Andrea, Steve, Tarini, Patti, Tim, Katy, Carolyn 7:00 pm Review and approval of prior Meeting Minutes Approve minutes at next meeting 7:05 pm Welcome New Members to Sustainability Committee Steve Marshall (Director Of Finance And Operations at Canton Public Schools) - extensive experience with Newton Sustainability Comm (grants, website) Tarini Dasari - school student (lives in Canton) 7:15 pm Report from Attendance at Canton Farmer’s Market Taught people who stopped by about composting, terra composting You can recycle yogurt cups Lots of people stopped, people seemed very eager to learn more, had questions Many people were from neighboring towns There was a long line to get vegetables, so the people waiting were a captive audience *Tip for future, set up near another stand that always has a lot of customers 7:25 pm Website Update Christine put up Andrea’s slideshow Put recycling info & pictures Put up textile recycling info & pictures Ideas A subpage or sidebar of tips regarding recycling, textile recycling, etc 7:40 pm Solid Waste Reduction Proposal - Public Education • Update on Small Scale Initiative Grant $1250 granted Asked select board to use money toward a magnetic postcard that goes to every citizen in canton Once the postcards are out, we can use social media to notify people of its existence Board voted for some mitigation money Town didn’t qualify for bigger grants • Update on Canton Citizen articles Sustainability information will hopefully be in the same place in the newspaper every edition Around 400 words allotted to us Goal is to be simple and give tips Katy’s three writing pieces fit the limit First piece talks about: (comes out in this week’s edition of the Citizen) What the committee has done this year • Update/Next Steps for Social Media Outreach ~Post articles to FB and/or Insta (Citizen) ~Post videos from the recycle outreach page ~Sharing about the citizen articles, when the postcards are going out, etc • Update/Next Steps for Newsletter ~Andrea is willing to start in October ~Andrea and Erin will talk to make sure there isn’t too much overlap between the information shared in the newsletter and on social media • Update on Composting RFP ~cannot promote one company over another~preffered provider contract (provides the ability to promote certain contractors)~Town procurement officer has approved (Randy)~122 Canton citizens active with Black Earth~Compost links: USDA Compost Awareness week (May2-8); USDA compost RFP 8:10 pm Goals for FY ‘22 • Municipal Energy Aggregation ~Passed at Town Meeting. ~Anticipate posting RFP for a broker Recycling Town/ School recycling Steve Marshall to look into how much of Canton town are currently recycling Weight vs. # of pickups Electronics recycling Similar to Greenfest event In coordination with another event Food/Business recycling Black plastic/utensils (Businesses should ask customers how many utensils are needed) Rain barrel event Community Education
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Utilize Canton @ Home resources - Mass Audubon presentations Library events MADEP Zoom presentation on Recycling and other topics - Potential event in 2021 Educating seniors about recycling Schools Educate faculty & staff about recycling in the classroom Signage following up with food service directors 8:25 pm Items not reasonably anticipated in advance by the Committee Next meeting on 10/12 @7p Meeting adjourned at 8:34