2011-03-24 – ANJHHWC Meeting Minutes

Posted on March 29, 2011 | Leave a comment

Call to Order – President Ron Berenato opened the meeting at 10:10 a.m. by welcoming all to the meeting and asking everyone to introduce themselves to the group.  Everyone in attendance introduced themselves.

Professional Recycling Coordinator Recertification Credits – 2 Meeting Credits – Larry Gindoff reminded everyone that this meeting was approved as providing 2 “meeting recertification credits” for those  certified professional recycling coordinators.  Mr. Gindoff informed everyone that the attendance sheet, included below, will be forwarded to Carol Brocoli of Rutgers  so she can double check if and when members submit attending this meeting as being eligible for such credits.

Treasures Report – The treasurer’s report was provided by Chris Sikorski, ANJHHWC Treasurer.  Chris began by providing the current checking account  balance to the group. A copy of the 2011 year-to-date  checking account activity report is provided below.  Chris mentioned that ANJHHWC received membership dues from most organizations that typically participate and join in the association.  In total, the ANJHHWC has received $2,300 in membership dues this year including 4 commercial members.  Chris mentioned that the ANJHHWC appreciates the commercial memberships and that one of the privileges of being a commercial member includes free attendance at our holiday meeting at the end of each year.  A motion was made to accept the Treasurer’s Report and it was seconded and approved by all.

Approval of December 8, 2010 ANJHHWC Minutes– Mr. Berenato stated that the minutes from the previous meeting held in Long Branch were prepared by Larry Gindoff and posted on the ANJHHWC’s website (www.NJHazWaste.com).   Mr. Berenato then asked for a motion to approve the minutes.  A motion was made and seconded and approved by all present voting members.

By Law Amendment – New Membership Category – County Organization Membership – 3 Person Maximum for $125/year – Members discussed a suggested change in by laws to allow for the addition of an all inclusive county membership, which would cost $125/year and be  limited to 3 persons.  This would be in addition to current $75/county member fee with a $25 fee for additional county members.   Larry Gindoff made motion in which he would be instructed to draft language, for presentation at the next ANJHHWC meeting, that effectuates such a by law change.  This motion was seconded and approved by all.

Electronics Subcommittee - JoAnn Gemenden provided a  review of a March 3, 2011 subcommittee meeting with NJDEP representatives about working together to implement a E-waste promotional program.  As part of the new Electronics Recycling Act the NJDEP is required to implement a statewide promotional campaign.  Joann said the meeting appeared positive in that NJDEP seemed to seriously consider our suggestion to partner with ANJHHWC to promote the Act and perform outreach with respect to the mandates in the law.  To get the ball rolling with this concept NJDEP needs to first receive a proposal from ANJHHWC.  A draft of such proposal was prepared by Joann, Carole Tolmachewich and Diana Vigilante.  Joann requested a motion from the members to submit a finalized proposal for this outreach to NJDEP. The proposal and planned outreach would follow a similar approach to the one ANHHWC used to successfully to promote rechargeable battery recycling in 2010.   The proposal’s goal is to develop and implement a statewide outreach campaign.  The development of a retailer’s toolkit is one of our ideas to get the retailers inline with the  statewide promotional  campaign.  A motion was made to authorize the electronics subcommittee to forward its proposal to NJDEP on behalf of the ANJHHWC.  This motional was seconded and approved by all.  The electronics subcommittee is scheduled to meet after the meeting to finalize ideas to be in the proposal to NJDEP.

Additionally, Joann mentioned that she believes EPA has a grant for promoting environmental educational that she wants to look into on behalf of the ANJHHWC.  Those with grant money to contribute seem to like have partnerships involved in programs like the ones ANJHHWC tries to establish.  This way everyone is working toward the same goals and targets.   Regarding this,  Diana mentioned the ANJHHWC received $5,000 in the Merck grant several years ago and we only spent $1,500 of that money to date. Diana suggested the ANJHHWC use some of this grant money toward the proposed E-waste proportional effort; she suggested $1,000.  This way the NJDEP sees this promotional campaign has vested partners besides just the  NJDEP.  Joann went over the details of the draft proposal and what we are proposing, i.e. PSAs, posters, paper ads, web banners, posters, press releases, retail tool kit, digital billboards, ball parks, NJ transit ads, etc. This is similar to what ANJHHWC did with respect to batteries in 2010.  It is anticipated that we would stagger the release of the promotional items appropriately throughout the year.  Other ideas tossed about included designating an E-Waste month and looking into airplane banners to fly over the Jersey Shore.

Larry Gindoff showed blue postcards and decals used by the Morris County MUA to educate the haulers about E-waste recycling. Since members liked the items he displayed, Mr. Gindoff stated he would share them with ANJHHWC members.  Note, PDFs of the proofs for these decals and postcards are provided below for members to use.

Medicine Take-Back Programs – Discussion about promoting medicine take-back programs followed.  April 30 the DEA is doing a drop-off for medicines.  Visit DEA.gov for a listing of drop-off sites by location and by  zip code. Additionally, the American Medicine Chest will be doing a November 12, 2011 program.  JoAnn mentioned Covanta has a program for prescription medicines management at their facilities.  Covanta accepts community based levels of medicines for destruction. Ken from Covanta would be good person to get information on Covant’s program.  It was also mentioned that DisposemyMeds.org is a website that lists pharmacies that take medicines back.

Summary of County Programs – County members next provided information about their individual programs and what changes and challenges they are facing in these difficult economic times.  Regarding accepting hazardous waste from schools,  Diana informed the ANJHHWC that Somerset County accepts school waste during Siomerset County HHW events.  Gloucester County also accept school hazardous waste if they first preregister.

With respect to the overall HHW program, Gloucester County  is status quo form last year.  Gloucester has dropped to 4 HHW days per year which is their lowest level in over a decade.  Recently, Gloucester County was forced to cutback HHW programs due to budgetary reasons.  Likewise, Monmouth cut one program in 2011.

Union County is pretty much the same but Joann mentioned Union County is having issues with scavengers taking the best of the E-waste at the curbside while leaving the expensive material to manage (televisions and monitors) behind.  Camden has noticed a similar trend and in addition,  more E-waste is now being illegally dumped.  Camden suggests eliminating curbside recycling of E-waste to stop this issue. One problem is that many standard scrap yards accept E-waste and it is an issue as to whether they are even allowed to accept E-waste and that they are offering a market to such scavengers.   In Camden County they have noticed that having curbside collection of E-waste results in broken leaded glass all over the place as the scavengers ravage the E-Waste curbside while leaving behind only items they do not want.  John from Magnum Recycling stated he has seen a flip in the ratio of glass to good E-waste recyclables since the law started. it used to be a ratio of 20% glass and 80% good metal, plastic, wire, etc. and now it is 50%/50% at best due to the scavenging issue.

Ernie from Ocean County asked about what to do with boat flares.  Ocean County operates a clean marina program which generated a 55-gallon drum of boat flares.  The issue is that State Police are enforcing the rule requiring the turning in of unused flares every 3 years.  Larry Gindoff offered members access to bid specifications the MCMUA uses for Morris County garage and police hazardous waste to use for anyone that wants to go out to bid for the management of these explosive materials. Morris County’s program under this bid manages a wide variety of explosives, flammables, ammunitions, fireworks, etc. which would be similar to managing boat flares.

ANJHHWC Newsletter – Carole went over newsletter she is preparing and the results of the 2011 HHW survey conducted specifically for the newsletter.  She asked everyone to verify their specific county information before she publishes it in the newsletter.

Nominating Committee for 2011 ANJHHWC Board Elections – Daniel Napolean of Mercer County and Fred Stanger of Middlesex County made up the two-member nomination committee which was charged with providing a recommendation to the ANJHHWC on a slate of officers for consideration for ANJHHWC elections to be held during the March 24, 2011 meeting.  Daniel reported that after consideration of the names put forth, the nominating subcommittee proposed Joann Gemenden for President, Diane Vigilante for Vice President,  Larry Gindoff for Secretary and Chris Sikorski for Treasurer.  The floor was also opened up for other nominations.  There were no additional nominations from the floor.  Motion was made to accept the slate and it was seconded and all were in favor.  Members thanked Ron Berenato for the worked he did as President in 2011 in keeping the association  moving forward and growing in a positive manner.  Ron next thanked the nomination committee for their efforts.

Adjournment: A motion was made to adjourn the meeting and it was seconded and approved by all.  The meeting was adjourned at 11:50.

Executive Session – The executive committee comprised of 4 Board members met immediately after the meeting to discuss future meeting dates and locations.

E-Waste Subcommittee – The E-waste subcommittee met immediately after the meeting to discuss finalizing the proposal to NJDEP.

Audit Subcommittee - After the meeting Tom Burbridge of Morris County and Melissa Harvey of Somerset County convened the audit subcommittee to go over the ANJHHWC finances with the Treasurer, Chris Sikorski.  A certification of such financial review was signed by all three and a copy of such is provided below.

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March 24, 2011 Meeting – Middlesex Co. Fire Academy

Posted on March 1, 2011 | Leave a comment

Please mark your calendars, the ANJHHWC will be holding its Winter 2011 meeting on Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 10:00 a.m.  It will take place at the Middlesex County Fire Academy (see directions below).

Cost to Attend: This meeting is free to ANJHHWC members in good standing and $25 for all other attendees.

Recycling Recertification Credits – This meeting will be eligible for two (2) meeting recycling recertification credits for those certified recycling professionals attending the meeting and needing such credits.

Agenda: While the agenda is still developing, topics likely to be covered include:

  • Treasurer’s Report
  • Approval of Minutes from previous Meeting
  • Elections
  • By-Law Change – Suggestion to add a $150 “All Inclusive County Membership” option that allows up to county 5 members to attend meetings.
  • Electronics Subcommittee Report
  • E-Waste Programs Status Report
  • HHW – Programs for 2011 – Status Reports
  • Other topics?
    • - Medicine Disposal
    • - Batteries
    • - School HHW
    • - Anything else?

Please email me at lgindoff@mcmua.com to let me know if you will be attending this meeting or to comment on the proposed agenda or to comment on anything else.

Click the following link for a PDF of the 2011-03-24_ANJHHWC Meeting Invitation

Directions to :
Middlesex County Fire Academy
1001 Fire Academy Drive
Sayreville 08872

  • Via the Garden State Parkway Northbound: Take Exit 125 (just after the Raritan tolls and before the bridge). At the bottom of the ramp turn left on to Chevalier Drive, then make the first on to Main Street (large church at corner). After 3/4 mile take the exit for Kennedy Drive. At the bottom of the ramp turn right into the Academy.
  • Via the Garden State Parkway Southbound: Take Exit 124 (just after the Raritan tolls). At the bottom of the ramp turn right on to Main Street and after a few hundred feet make the first right on to Kennedy Drive. Stay on Kennedy Drive for 3/4 of a mile, through the traffic light, and straight into the Fire Academy.
  • From the New Jersey Turnpike North or South: Take Turnpike Exit 11 for the Garden State Parkway (GSP). After the tolls, bear left and on to the Garden State Parkway (GSP) traveling south. From the GSP take Exit 124 (just after the Raritan tolls). At the bottom of the ramp turn right on to Main Street and after a few hundred feet make the first right on to Kennedy Drive. Stay on Kennedy Drive for 3/4 of a mile, through the traffic light, and straight into the Fire Academy.

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2010-12-08 – ANJHHWC Meeting Minutes

Posted on January 18, 2011 | Leave a comment

Call to Order – President Ron Berenato opened the meeting at 10:35 a.m. by welcoming all to the meeting and asking every one to introduce themselves to the group

Approval of September 29, 2010 ANJHHWC Minutes– Mr. Berenato stated that the minutes from the previous meeting held at the Middlesex County Fire Training Academy were prepared by Larry Gindoff and posted on the ANJHHWC’s website (www.NJHazWaste.com).   Mr. Berenato then asked for a motion to approve the minutes.  A motion was made and seconded and approved by all present voting members.

Treasures Report – The treasurer’s report was provided by Chris Sikorski, ANJHHWC Treasurer, and he handed out a sheet summarizing his report.  Chris mentioned that membership for 2010 has expanded and included almost every county. Additionally, corporate membership expanded and a Chris gave a special thank you to Covanta for its financial contribution to the ANJHHWC in support of the “If It’s Rechargeable, It’s Recyclable” educational and promotional campaign.

Chris stated that an internal audit was done on the ANJHHWC’s 2009 finances by Tom Burbridge and Melissa Harvey and the audit was acceptable and a form noting such will be was executed by Tom and Melissa. Click the 2009 Financial and Audit Certification to view this executed certification.  Diana Vigilante made a motion to accept treasurer report, this motion was seconded and all members agreed to the acceptance of the treasurer’s report.

Larry Gindoff mentioned the ANJHHWC needs to assemble nominating committee for making a recommendation regarding board elections for consideration at the spring meeting.

Battery Recycling – Todd Ellis from Call2Recycle.org gave a report on the battery program.  First he stated how he and his company appreciate all the work of the ANJHHWC battery subcommittee.  Todd mentioned our 2010 goal was to increase the recycling of rechargeable by 15% and we are on target to reach that goal by the end of the year. Call2Recycle.org has a special URL for New Jersey people to sign up for these battery recycling boxes.  This URL is http://Call2Recycle.org/nj. Larry also mentioned the MCMUA recognized the efforts of RBRC at its annual recycling awards dinner in November.  RBRC will provide recycling tonnage as they tabulate them in order to see how we are progressing.

Electronics Recycling Act – Guy Watson, NJDEP, mentioned that the NJDEP sent out letters to all haulers they had on their list informing them of the Act and the disposal ban on covered electronics.  Someone asked if a surcharge may be assessed at disposal facilities to handle the management of illegally disposed electronics.  Guy answered “yes” and that this administrative cost could also act as a deterrent.  Prior to instituting any such cost, a disposal facility should notify NJDEP.
Letters will soon go out to disposal facilities and letters are being mailed to manufacturers that haven’t submitted their plans as required by the Act.  Guy mentioned that plans representing 84% of televisions sold in NJ and 91% of the other covered electronics have submitted plans. While the plans submitted to the NJDEP represent a large portion of the electronics sold there are large numbers of manufacturers identified that haven’t submitted plan and without the plan the law allows their products to be banned from sale in NJ until adequate recycling plans are submitted and approved.

Guy stated most of the plans submitted are good but most have deficiencies of some sort.  There is at least one collection site per county so that is an accomplishment as far as state-wide coverage goes.  Samsung, which is the largest TV manufacturer, submitted a plan but it is very deficient and NJDEP is reaching out to them to improve it.

With respect to the rules NJDEP is promulgating in conjunction with the Act, 40 comments have been submitted and some changes will be made.  Issues related to getting letters from out-of state facilities regarding permits and compliance will be updated to take into account different state’s approval processes.  Additional certifications will likely be acceptable besides BAN and R2 if they materialize and warrant approval.  The certifications were asked about and the difference between a pledge to comply with BAN vs. approved as part of BAN is different.  It’s expensive to get endorsed by BASIL vs. R2.

The proposed credit system is likely to be modified to allow flexibility in quantities of E-waste  managed from year to year.  Enforcement language will be updated to make it more consistent with the way other solid waste matters are enforced.  Finally, if the industry or the U.S. Congress develop a program that can replace NJ’s E-waste system, the change in rules will allow our system to work under the newly developed nation-wide program.  NJDEP doesn’t anticipate Congress to act anytime soon but it is more likely that the industry may develop one a nation-wide program.

With respect to the current list of covered electronic devices in the Act, there is a current bill to expand covered electronics and there is potential to expand the list in the future if such a bill is passed.
The NJDEP’s public outreach number will be 1-800-WARNNJDEP and their Web site will be www.RecycleNJ.org as the place for people to get information.  Please note that after the meeting NJDEP changed the phone number to be: 1-866-DEPKNOW.

It was suggested that last year’s battery subcommittee of the ANJHHWC redevelop and define itself as an E-waste subcommittee and work with the NJDEP and potentially get to use their funding for promotions to educate the public on this matter.

Finally, Mr. Watson stated that consumers are defined in the Act as residents and businesses with 50 people or less.  Small businesses are covered by the act but schools are not.

County Updates:

  • Atlantic – Not doing anything with respect to physically managing E-waste, letting the manufacturers handle it in the Atlantic County without any participation by the ACUA.
  • Bergen will continue as they have been running.  Will go over with towns but encourage towns to sign up with vendors themselves.
  • Camden - Keep status quo with what they are doing but a few more towns are coming on board so they see that expanding a bit.
  • Burlington – On going program will continue.  They will promote retail options (Best Buys and Good Will) About 1/3 of towns are setting up programs in their towns and they anticipate that to be 50% in future.
  • Hudson – AERC -CCR 8-9 towns should have containers in their yards for the end of the year.  Hudson County will manage both covered and uncovered materials and they will continue accepting E-waste as they have done in the past.
  • Mercer – Hold 5 events 3 with HHW and 2 with E-waste only, handful of municipalities do it themselves.
  • Middlesex – Plan to continue as it has been running.  Went out to bid and expect to award contract to Sims for drop-off facility in Middlesex County.  Twenty towns of the 25 consolidate electronics and will deliver roll-off to Sims.
  • Monmouth – HHW continuing as 2 single-day events with permanent facility to handle materials.  Electronics dropped off at reclamation center managed by Planning Board and expect boxes to be spread out at municipal depots to be managed by a contractor.
  • Morris - Will continue its program of permanent facility and one-day event.  MCMUA will stop charging consumers but charge businesses.  About 15 towns now have E-waste acceptable at their recycling depots.
  • Passaic – About half the towns have programs in place and several more will be added. County program will be expanded to include more 1-day events.
  • Somerset – Holding 6 HHW days/year and collects E-waste first Saturday of month at recycling center but drop-off will be allowed at Newtech.  They don’t handle businesses.  3 towns currently collect E-waste at their depots.
  • Salem – Been running E-Waste program since 2002 and they charge $0.06/pound for E-waste and will continue to do so in the future at their landfill.  They have no retail outlets for this material in the Salem County.  HHW programs will continue on the same 2 Saturdays as has been done in the past. Salem holds shredding events also which cost $800/ 3 hours of service.
  • Union – Continuing one-day events and expanded to 5-day a week drop off at Newtech.  One town in the Union County has a drop-off now.  It is likely that approximately 11 towns will soon accept trailers for municipal drop-off of E-waste.

Commercial Members Update

  • MXI mentioned the wide variety of programs MXI now runs in NJ how they are expanding some programs and pickup projects.
  • Clean Venture – mentioned they have a couple of contracts around New Jersey at this time but are available to also serve clean up matters as they may pop-up during the year.
  • WeRecycle – NY based company has relationship with manufacturers; they are working to update their businesses model to serve other recyclers as their end market for E-waste.
  • Newtech – They now have a partnership with MRM and contracts with Somerset and Union to handle their materials.
  • MRM – They have submitted 60 collection locations to NJDEP as part of their NJ collection program and MRM represent about 20 manufacturers.  Happy with the start they have gotten so far and look forward improving the program in the future.

A motion was made to thank the commercial vendors who are ANJHHWC members and to allow such commercial vendors to come to ANJHHWC meetings at no charge.  This motion was seconded and approved by all.

Adjournment – A motion was made to adjourn the meeting which was seconded and approved by all. The meeting was adjourned at 12:05 p.m.

Executive Meeting – Following the regular meeting the ANJHHWC Board conducted an executive meeting where it discussed coordinating spring meeting and establishing nominating committee for Board elections to take place at the first meeting of 2011.

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December 8, 2010 Meeting – McLoone’s Pier House, Long Branch

Posted on October 28, 2010 | Leave a comment

Please mark your calendars, the ANJHHWC will be holding its 2010 Holiday meeting on Wednesday, December 8, 2010 at 10:00 a.m.  It will take place at the McLoone’s Pier House,  One Ocean Avenue, Long Branch, NJ 07740 (click here for directions).

While the agenda is still developing, topics likely to be covered include:

  • Upcoming Electronics Disposal Ban and Manufacturer’s Programs which official kick off in 2011
  • Year-End Round Up in HHW

Buffet lunch will be provided immediately following the meeting. The  meeting cost including lunch is as follows:

  • $30/person – Current ANJHHWC Memeber
  • $40/person – non-ANJHHWC Member

Please email me at lgindoff@mcmua.com to let me know if you will be attending this meeting.  Additionally, you can leave a comment indicating your desire to attend the meeting or to comment on

the proposed agenda or to comment on anything else.

For those that need a formal invitation to print and submit in order to facilitate payment and registration.  Use the attached PDF linked below as a registration form.  2010-12-08 ANJHHWC Holiday Invite and Registration Form

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2010-09-29 – ANJHHWC Meeting Minutes

Posted on October 28, 2010 | Leave a comment

Call to Order – President Ron Berenato opened the meeting at 10:20 a.m. by welcoming all to the Middlesex County Fire Academy and thanking Chris Sikorski for coordinating this meeting location and food for the meeting.

Approval of May 25, 2010 ANJHHWC Minutes– Mr. Berenato stated that the minutes from the previous meeting held at the baseball stadium in Trenton were prepared by Larry Gindoff and posted on the ANJHHWC’s website (www.NJHazWaste.com).   Mr. Berenato then asked for a motion to approve the minutes.  A motion was made and seconded and approved by all present voting members.  Mr. Gindoff then provided a brief overview of the ANJHHWC website and how he transitioned it and copied the old material from the original site that had been running since the mid-90s to the newly formatted website.

Selection of Financial Committee to Review Records – Due to the ANJHHWC’s non-profit status, it is required that a financial committee be appointed to review the association’s financial records. Members of the committee cannot be current or recent board members.  A motion was made to establish the committee and this motion was seconded.  All members then voted in favor of its establishment with the exception of the ANJHHWC Treasurer, Chris Sikorski, who abstained.  Mark Vangieri of Bergen County suggested that an auditing firm, like the one used by ANJR, can be used, and he believes the cost is not too high, if the ANJHHWC want to proceed in that manner.  Tom Burbridge, Morris County and Melissa Harvey, Somerset County both volunteered to sit on this financial committee and to meet with Chris Sikorski prior to the December meeting to review the ANJHHWC’s financial records.

Treasurer’s Report – ANJHHWC Treasurer, Chris Sikorski provided a report on the ANJHHWC’s finances.  He stated the balance in the Association’s bank account is $10,255.21 and that NewTech Recycling joined as the most recent commercial member.  Chris then provided a run-down on the RBRC battery grant and spending associated with it.  The ANJHHWC spending on the grant is complete as it has spent a total of $18,000 on promoting the “If It’s Rechargeable It’s Recyclable” campaign.  $15,000 came from the RBRC grant, $1,000 came from Covanta Energy, $1,000 came from the Merk grant and $1,000 was matched and provided by the ANJWWHC.  A motion was made to accept the treasurer’s report and it was seconded and approved by all.

Electronics Recycling Act and Disposal Ban Starting In 2011- Discussion ensued regarding how the counties are beginning to transition to operating their electronics recycling programs in consideration of the new Electronics Recycling Act (“Act”).  Most counties reported that they have been contacted by a variety of representatives (electronic recyclers/demanufacturers) of manufacturers that have proposed, in one way or another, to take over and pay for individual county programs as their way to meet their obligations of the Act.  While most counties are in the middle of existing demanufacturing contracts, and therefore are not in a position to act on any of these proposals, a couple of counties have already been able to figure out how to take advantage of these proposals and have entered into contracts to have their programs operated by firms as part of the Act.  Guy Watson of the NJDEP requested that people send him copies of proposals they receive if they involve facilities in NJ so that the NJDEP could assess their approval status to operate in NJ.  Mr. Watson admitted the NJDEP needs a much better way to regulate and approve New Jersey’s class “D” recycling facilities than what is current going on.

Several counties at this point still were trying to figure out how to react to what are in essence unsolicited proposals from the manufacturers’ representatives. Guy Watson reiterated that it is the manufacturers’ obligation to get these programs paid for and up and running and not necessarily the obligation of the individual counties.  Mr. Watson stated that his Department will send a letter to all municipalities educating them about the Act and its implementation prior to January 2011.

A question came up about knowing which manufacturers these demanufactures represent and the members were informed that many of the demanufacturers have non-disclosure agreements with their clients and therefore cannot disclose who they represent.

Summary of County Programs

  • Burlington – They run permanent facility and satellite facility and no one-day events.  Latex paint is getting to expensive to haul for them.  It was suggested to look into using it as a landfill cover application in something called “Posi-Shell” which you can spray onto a landfill face to supplement daily cover operations.  ACUA reported they send their latex paint to Covanta for energy recovery but many counties are still in a dry-it-out and throw-it out mode with respect to latex paint.
  • Salem – They have a problem with their current HHW contractor for not provided a forklift at their programs which is needed to unload farmer’s waste delivered on flatbed trucks.  Salem also distributed magnets they sent out as a postcard mailer and discussed problems with the plastic coating used to keep the magnet attached to the postcard.
  • Sussex – Running 6 events for the year and they report they are currently withholding some payment to their HHW contractor while waiting for the return of executed manifests.
  • Somerset – They are about to conduct the last of 6 events for the year and plan on conducting the same number in 2011.
  • Morris County – in 2010 cut events from 5 to 4 and this did not seem to be an issue.  Participation is down a little in 2010 compared to previous years.  Not as many people moving seems to have impacted participation and people are getting into better habits of only buying only what they need.  Morris County will probably conduct 4 days again in 2011 while continuing to run its permanent facility as it has in the past.
  • Gloucester – They conduct 8 programs this year and they also see participation going down a bit.  They have recently stopped accepting latex paint and that has cut their cost dramatically. Gloucester anticipates cutting the number of programs in the future due to decreasing participation and as a way to save money.
  • Camden – They have conducted 6 programs a year and anticipate keeping that frequency for the near future. Their participation continues to increase.  They anticipate stopping the accepting latex in the future.
  • Mercer – They conduct 3 HHW days and 2 electronic recycling days and anticipate keeping this schedule for 2011.
  • Union – They anticipate keeping the same basic schedule in 2011 as they had in 2010.
  • Middlesex – They conduct 7 one-day events a year and their participation is waning a bit.  They continue to operate their latex drop-off program
  • Monmouth – Permanent facility continues to increase in participation; claims many people are cleaning out their homes in preparation to leave the state permanently.  They continue to conduct 2 one-day events in addition to operating their permanent facility.
  • Bergen – They conduct 8 one-day events a year and plan on doing the same in 2011.  They accept latex paint at their events and participation is about the same as the past.
  • Passaic – They conduct 3 one-day programs a year and will do so in 2011.  They also accept latex paint as apart of their programs.
  • Atlantic – Conduct 7 one-day programs a year.

Medicine Take-Back Programs – Discussion about promoting medicine take-back programs followed.  It was suggested that the ANJHHWC may want to create and distribute public service announcements promoting these programs similar to what it did with respect to battery management.

Adjournment: Meeting was adjourned at approximately 11:30.

Executive Board Meeting – The executive board conducted one if its required quarterly meetings between 11:30 a.m. and 12:00 noon following the adjournment of the regular meeting.  Discussions included scheduling the December 2010 meeting and preparing an updated membership form for 2011 membership.

 

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