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$/30/2018 Your Recycling Gets Recycled, Right? Maybe, or Maybe Not - The New York Times

Other communities, like Grants Pass, Ore., home to about 37,000 people, are continuing to
encourage their residents to recycle as usual, but the materials are winding up in landfills anyway.
Local waste managers said they were concerned that if they told residents to stop recycling, it
could be hard to get them to start again.

It is “difficult with the public to turn the spigot on and off,” said Brian Fuller, a waste manager
with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality.

The fallout has spread beyond the West Coast. Ben Harvey, the president of E.L. Harvey & Sons, a
recycling company based in Westborough, Mass., said that he had around 6,000 tons of paper and
cardboard piling up, when he would normally have a couple hundred tons stockpiled. The bales
are filling almost half of his 80,000-square-foot facility.

“It’s really impacted our day-to-day operations,” Mr. Harvey said. “It’s stifling me.”

Recyclers in Canada, Australia, Britain, Germany and other parts of Europe have also scrambled
to find alternatives.

Still, across much of the United States, including most major cities, recycling is continuing as
usual. Countries like India, Vietnam and Indonesia are importing more of the materials that are
not processed domestically. And some waste companies have responded to China’s ban by
stockpiling material while looking for new processors, or hoping that China reconsiders its policy.

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Americans recycle roughly 66 million tons of material each year, according to the most recent
figures from the Environmental Protection Agency, about one-third of which is exported. The
majority of those exports once went to China, said David Biderman, the executive director of the
Solid Waste Association of North America, a research and advocacy group.

But American scrap exports to China fell by about 35 percent in the first two months of this year,
after the ban was implemented, said Joseph Pickard, chief economist for the Institute of Scrap
Recycling Industries, a trade group.

“It’s a huge concern, because China has just been such a dominant overseas market for us,” Mr.
Pickard said.

In particular, exports of scrap plastic to China, valued at more than $300 million in 2015, totaled

just $7.6 million in the first quarter of this year, down 90 percent from a year earlier, Mr. Pickard
said. Other countries have stepped in to accept more plastics, but total scrap plastic exports are
still down by 40 percent this year, he said.

“There is a significant disruption occurring to U.S. recycling programs,” Mr. Biderman said. “The
concern is if this is the new normal.”

Curbside recycling is typically hauled by a private company to a sorting plant, where marketable
goods are separated out. Companies or local governments then sell the goods to domestic or
overseas processors. Some states and cities prohibit these companies from dumping plastic,
paper and cardboard, but some local officials — including in Oregon, Massachusetts and various
municipalities in Washington State — have granted waivers so that unmarketable materials can
be sent to the landfill.

Recycling companies “used to get paid” by selling off recyclable materials, said Peter Spendelow,
a policy analyst for the Department of Environmental Quality in Oregon. “Now they’re paying to
have someone take it away.”

In some places, including parts of Idaho, Maine and Pennsylvania, waste managers are
continuing to recycle but are passing higher costs on to customers, or are considering doing so.

“There are some states and some markets where mixed paper is at a negative value,” said Brent
Bell, vice president of recycling at Waste Management, which handles 10 million tons of recycling
per year. “We'll let our customers make that decision, if they’d like to pay more and continue to
recycle or to pay less and have it go to landfill.”

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Mr. Spendelow said companies in rural areas, which tend to have higher expenses to get their
materials to market, were being hit particularly hard. “They’re literally taking trucks straight to
the landfill,” he said.

Will Posegate, the chief operations officer for Garten Services, which processes recycling for a
number of counties in Oregon, said his company had tried to stockpile recyclables but eventually
used a waiver to dump roughly 900 tons. “The warehouse builds up so much that it’s unsafe,” he
said.

In California, officials are concerned that improperly stored bales of paper could become hazards
during wildfire season, said Zoe Heller, the policy director for the state’s recycling department.

While China has entirely banned 24 materials, including post-consumer plastic and mixed paper,
it has also demanded that other materials, such as cardboard and scrap metal, be only 0.5 percent
impure. Even a small amount of food scraps or other rubbish, if undetected, can ruin a batch of
recycling.

Some waste managers say that China’s new contamination standards are impossible to meet,
while others are trying to clean up their recycling streams by slowing down their processing
facilities, limiting the types of materials they accept or trying to better educate customers on what
belongs in the recycling bin.

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Mr. Bell, the Waste Management executive, said he had seen everything from Christmas lights to
animal carcasses to artillery shells come through the company’s recycling facilities. “Most of our
facilities get a bowling ball every day or two,” he said.

Some materials can ruin a load, he said, while others pose fire or health hazards and can force
facilities to slow their operations and in some cases temporarily shut down. (And a bowling ball
could do serious damage to the equipment.) Approximately 25 percent of all recycling picked up
by Waste Management is contaminated to the point that it is sent to landfills, Mr. Bell said.

Recyclers have always disposed of some of their materials. But the percentage has climbed as
China and other buyers of recyclable material have ratcheted up quality standards.

Most contamination, Mr. Bell said, happens when people try to recycle materials they shouldn’t.
Disposable coffee cups — which are usually lined with a thin film that makes them liquid-proof
but challenging and expensive to reprocess — are an example. Unwashed plastics can also cause
contamination.

“If we don’t get it clean, we’re not going to be able to market it, and if we can’t market it
unfortunately it’s going to go to the landfill,” said Mr. Penning, the Rogue spokesman. In March,
Rogue told customers to put everything in the trash except for corrugated cardboard, milk jugs,
newspapers and tin and aluminum cans, which the company is finding domestic markets for, Mr.
Penning said.

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Rogue customers who make mistakes might see an “Oops” sticker the next time they check their
recycling bin, he said,

In Eugene, similar restrictions have been imposed by the waste company Sanipac. These have
not sat well with some residents. “Eugene is a very green city and people love their recycling
here,” said Diane Peterson, a resident. “There are a lot of things like yogurt containers that we get
ail the time, and now we can’t recycle them.”

Leah Geocaris, another Eugene resident, said the change had prompted her to try to consume
less overall. “On the one hand, I hate it, because I don’t want stuff to end up in landfill,” she said.
“On the other hand, it’s a wake-up call.”

“Recycling is the third R,’ she said. “You have to reduce and reuse first.”

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City of Nashua *P.0. Box 2018

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City Clerk E-Mail: cityclerkdept@NashuaNH.gov

MEMORANDUM

TO: Board of Aldermen
FROM: Patricia D. Piecu
City Clerk
DATE: June 7, 2018
RE: Warrant to be Committed to Chief of Police for Unlicensed Dogs

Pursuant to RSA 466:14, | am requesting the Board of Aldermen commit the warrant to the
Chief of Police so that either he or his designee will issue the Notice of Civil Forfeiture to those
dog owners who have failed to renew or license their dog(s) as required under RSA 466:1.
Those owners identified on the warrant are required to license their dog(s) and pay a $25 civil
forfeiture fee per dog and a $7 cost of service fee within 15 calendar days of the notice.

In March of this year we forwarded 11,272 notices (5,287 by email and 5,985 by mail) to dog
owners to license their dog. On May 17" we mailed reminder postcards to 4,033 owners of
which 5,107 dogs remained unlicensed. Since the postcard mailing, we were able to license or
remove from our database 2,108 dogs. We currently have 2,388 owners of which 2,999 dogs
still remain unlicensed.

Time permitting, we will start making reminder phone calls to any owners who still have not
licensed their dog in order to provide every opportunity possible to avoid charging the civil
forfeiture fee.

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

pe: Andrew Lavoie, Chief of Police
Mayor James W. Donchess

2018-2019 Warrant for Unlicensed Dogs

To Andrew Lavoie, Chief of Police for the City of Nashua, in the County of Hillsborough, State of New

Hampshire.

In the name of the City of Nashua, you or your designee, are directed and required, pursuant to RSA
466:14; to issue a civil forfeiture for each unlicensed dog to the persons named in the list hereby

committed to you.

Given under this hand and seal of the Board of Aldermen, of the City of Nashua, 12" day of June 2018.

BOARD OF ALDERMEN

Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire

Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright

Alderman Patricia Klee

Alderman Thomas Lopez

Ailderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly

Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja

Alderman Jan Schmidt

Alderman-at-Large Brian S. McCarthy

Alderman Ken Gidge

Alderman Richard A. Dowd

Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael Laws

Alderman June M. Caron

Alderman Ernest A. Jette

Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza

Alderman-at-Large Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.

Jim Donchess
Mayor e City of Nashua

To: Board of Aldermen

From: Jim Donchess

Date: 6/7/18

Re: 2018 Sewer Replacement — Kinsley Street

Pursuant to NRO § 5-90 (E) which states that approval by the Finance Committee of a contract award in
excess of $1,000,000 shall be submitted to the full Board of Aldermen at its next regularly scheduled
meeting for final approval prior to awardof the contract.

The Finance Committee approved and placed‘on file the notification of the award of the referenced contract
at their June 6, 2018 meeting. | am.requesting the concurrence and approval of the full Board of Aldermen
for the award of the following contract:

2018 Sewer Replacement — Kinsley Street — Included is the Purchasing Manager’s Memo #18-159 regarding
the award of this contract to the Finance Committee dated 5/31/18. This contract has a value of
$1,139,300.

229 Main Street » PO Box 2019 * Nashua, New Hampshire 03061-2019
603.589.3260 ° fax 603.594.3450 * NashuaMayor@NashuaNH.gov
www.NashuaNH.gov

@ay\ THE CITY OF NASHUA “The Gate City’

Financial Services

Purchasing Department

May 31, 2018
Memo #18-159

TO: MAYOR DONCHESS
FINANCE COMMITTEE

SUBJECT: 2018 SEWER REPLACEMENT — KINSLEY STREET (VALUE: $1,139,300)
DEPARTMENT: 169 WASTEWATER; FUND: WASTEWATER

Please see the attached communication from Stephen Dookran, P.E., City Engineer, dated May 31, 2018
for information related to this purchase.

Pursuant to § 5-78 Major purchases (greater than $10,000) A. All supplies and contractual services,
except as otherwise provided herein, when the estimated cost thereof shall exceed $10,000 shall be
purchased by formal, written contract from the lowest responsible bidder, after due notice inviting bids.

The City Engineer, Board of Public Works (May 31, 2018 meeting) and the Purchasing Department

recommend the award of this contract in the amount of $1,139,300 to Newport Construction
Corporation of Nashua, NH.

Respectfully,

an Kooken
Purchasing Manager

Cc: S Dookran L Fauteux

229 Main Street e Nashua, New Hampshire 03061 e Phone (603) 589-3330 e Fax (603) 589-3233

Board of Aldermen Page 12
May 24, 2016

R-16-027
Endorsers: Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
Alderwoman Mary Ann Melizzi-Golja
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderman Richard A. Dowd
RELATIVE TO THE ACCEPTANCE AND APPROPRIATION OF $11,822 FROM THE UNITED
STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
DEPARTMENT OF SAFETY INTO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT GRANT ACTIVITY “2016
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERFORMANCE GRANT (EMPG)”
Given its second reading;

MOTION BY ALDERMAN WILSHIRE FOR FINAL PASSAGE OF R-16-027
ON THE QUESTION

Alderman Moriarty

Does this go into the department that Director Kates is involved with?
Alderman Wilshire

Yes.

Alderman Moriarty

| just want to give credit where credit is due. Back in 2011, some of us might remember the storm in
October. That’s when | was first running for alderman. My Facebook was lit up with people wishing there
was some sort of centralized department of emergency management, some sort of director who could do
things. I’ve sort of kept my eye on that department and Director Kates. He’s just done an absolutely great
job.

A Viva Voce Roll Call was taken, which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Wilshire, Alderman Clemons, Alderman Cookson, 14
Alderman Dowd, Alderman Caron, Alderman Siegel,
Alderman Schoneman, Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja, Alderman McGuinness,
Alderman LeBrun, Alderman Moriarty, Alderman O’Brien,
Alderman Lopez, Alderman McCarthy
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED

Resolution R-16-027 declared duly adopted.