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Here is some really good news about the importance of recycling. It
brings money to the City, and most importantly, it saves the energy
that would be required to smelt more aluminum, manufacture more
plastics, etc. while reserving more of our landfills for things that
cannot be recycled.<br>
<br>
Our City government is doing something right!<br>
<br>
Steve.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:marypatclarke@lists.baltimorecity.gov">marypatclarke@lists.baltimorecity.gov</a> wrote:
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Message from </span></font></b></a><b><font color="#a50021"
face="Berlin Sans FB Demi" size="6"><span
style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Berlin Sans FB Demi"; color: rgb(165, 0, 33); letter-spacing: 0.5pt; font-weight: bold;">Mary
Pat Clarke<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Berlin Sans FB Demi"; color: rgb(165, 0, 33); letter-spacing: 0.5pt; font-weight: bold;">14<sup>th</sup>
District<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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align="center"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><b><font
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City Council</span></font></b><font size="6"><span
style="font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 20pt; font-weight: bold;">Dear 14<sup>th</sup>
District Leaders
and Friends,<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 20pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><font
face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: bold;">“This
BUD’s <i><span style="font-style: italic;">from </span></i>you!”<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><font
face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Baltimore</span></font></st1:PlaceName><font
size="5"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">City</st1:PlaceType></span></font></st1:place><font
size="5"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">’s aluminum is sold and then
processed to make beer cans for Anheuser Busch. Our plastic is sold
and
sent to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Raleigh</st1:City></st1:place>,
ground into pellets and converted into new bottles for Coca Cola. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 16pt;">Even plastic bags, which are prohibited for
recycling, are yanked from the
stream of recyclables, baled and sold (at 1/2-cent per pound) to a
company
called Trex, which converts them into recycled lumber which can be used
to
build decks and benches. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 16pt;">For all the enthusiasm about Single Stream
Recycling and all the yellow
barrels we lined-up freezing to buy, many of my constituents have
confided
that, “I wonder if we really just dump most of what’s
collected.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 16pt;">We don’t. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 16pt;">The City’s single stream material carries
only a 5.28 percentage
of residue, and the City has earned $104,463.34 in Single Stream
revenue for
January and February of 2008, our proceeds from the sale of sorted and
baled
recyclables. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 16pt;">(The City SELLS our recyclables to Waste
Management at a blended
monthly commodity rate, pays a processing fee of $57.00 a ton and
currently
nets $29.76 a ton.) <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 16pt;">Thanks to a feisty group of <st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Roland Park Place</st1:address></st1:Street>
residents, we organized a June 17
investigative tour of Waste Management Recycle America, in Elkridge,
where all
of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Baltimore</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">City</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>’s
recyclables are delivered.
We even donned yellow hard hats and safety vests to follow our
recyclables from
delivery to baling. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 16pt;">The Waste Management Recycle America plant is
comprised of a series of
slatted conveyor belts which sequentially shake-and-roll the
ever-finer-by-finer separation of materials. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 16pt;">Employees along the conveyors hand-separate
specific items, like
plastic bags, and place them in beltside containers for separate
baling. By the
end of the line, aluminum cans, for example, roll through like little
aluminum
balls — and any remaining residue is hand-separated.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 16pt;">In <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Baltimore</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">City</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>,
City load-packers
pick-up our recyclables, then deliver them to the Reisterstown Road
Transfer
Station. There the recyclables are loaded into huge trucks with
slatted,
movable floors, which permit direct unloading onto Waste Management’s
conveyor belt system. At the end of the conveyor process, products are
bound into huge bales for sales and delivery to the end-users.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 16pt;">Thanks, <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address
w:st="on">Roland Park Place</st1:address></st1:Street>,
for the use of your van and the challenge to “check it out” in
person. Thanks, Mr. David Taylor, District Manager of WM Recycle
America,
who rode the van and briefed us on the entire single source operation.
Thanks,
Kurt Kocher, “the voice” of Public Works, who rode along as well
and shared the City’s perspective.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 16pt;">Most of all, thanks to all of the “Doubting
Thomases” who
inspired this trek into the land of second chances for our bottles,
cans,
papers. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 16pt;">“This BUD’s for you!”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: bold;">Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Mary
Pat<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;">Baltimore</span></font></b></st1:PlaceName><b><font
size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;"> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">City</st1:PlaceType></span></font></b></st1:place><b><font
size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;"> Council.,
14<sup>th</sup>
District<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;">550 City
Hall<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address
w:st="on"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;">100 North Holliday Street</span></font></b></st1:address></st1:Street><b><font
size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;"> 21202<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;">410-396-4814
(0)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<b><i><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br
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</span></font></i></b>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">(Whose
<span class="hypertext"><u><font color="blue"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mpclarke@bcpl.net">mpclarke@bcpl.net</a></font></u></span>
address is about to expire, <o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">with
no recycle
options available.)</span></font></i></b><font size="4"><span
style="font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;">Please use <span
class="hypertext"><u><font color="blue"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:marypat.clarke@baltimorecity.gov">marypat.clarke@baltimorecity.gov</a>.</font></u></span>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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