Finance Committee - 8/2/2017 Page 17
Mayor Donchess
It’s running down. So what they do is they buy a big bunch of them and they’re for sale to the public. They get
a whole group and they sell them gradually. They’re selling like | think fairly rapidly — 20 to 30 at a time in the
course of a week maybe. Then they buy a big supply. They sell those until they get down close to running out
and then they buy another set of them.
Alderman Cookson
So at $60 apiece, $145,000 goes in about 2,400 times.
Dan Kooken
We buy them in a truck load lot so that we’re taking advantage of the freight. These are a lot of air even
though they nest them together. So they do buy in a truck load lot. I’m not specifically aware of exactly how
many that is. | can get that for you if you need that.
Alderman Cookson
So again | just took the $145,000 and divided it by 60 which is the approximate price which | just heard,
correct? So it leaves me with about 2,400 toters that are available. You said a majority of those are going into
the recycling area. Some left for trash pickup. My understanding correct me if I’m wrong | thought that only the
recycling bins were available for purchase and that the trash bins were provided to the citizens of Nashua.
Mayor Donchess
That’s correct.
Alderman Cookson
Is there a need for trash cans?
Mayor Donchess
The vast majority of this is recycling. They’re selling | believe the figure is 20 to 30 a week. This is a supply so
that would be 1,000 to 1,500 a year. So this is a supply that would last a year to two years.
Alderman Cookson
80 weeks. You said 20 to 30 a week. So it would last 80 weeks.
Mayor Donchess
A ballpark. Let’s say somewhere between a year and two years.
Dan Kooken
| think we'd have to verify the calculations. It seems a little off to me. We're buying them in truckload lots. It
seems like we buy at least a couple times a year.
Mayor Donchess
| don’t’ think that’s correct.
