Pickle.

Yes.

Green.

Yes.

Ford.

Here.

Parks.

Yes.

Wimpy.

Yes.

Call the broken air municipal authority.

Roll call.

Pickle.

Green.

Here.

Ford.

Still here.

Parks.

Here.

Whampy.

Here.

Are there any items to be removed from the consent agenda?

We'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda for stance.

Roll call.

Why does that do?

All right.

Item five is public hearings, appeals, presentations, recognitions, and awards.

5A, presentation to the broken arrow municipal authority for solid waste and recycling gold lid recycle fund.

I know, look at him.

Fancy.

It said Jerry, but you are now Jerry.

No, not around on Joe Jarrett tonight, even though he did say the same thing when I walked up.

Good evening, Madam Chair, Vice Chair, members of the board, and General Meters Virgin.

I'm Trevor Bow.

I'm the recycling average coordinator with the Solid Waste and Recycling Department.

And I'm here tonight to present you with the new gold lid program that we're kind of rolling out to residents a little bit.

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Am I able to use this clicker at all or no?

Clickable.

So the gold lid program is a way to highlight selected residents that are a shiny example of what proper recycling looks like in broken arrow.

Um the residents that were selected have a very consistent set array for the recycling cart, and they always keep it very clear of contaminants.

We are distributing 100 new recycling carts with gold lids to residents that have uh met with those qualifications.

So our goal with the program is to give recognition of residents that are knowing or unknowingly contributing to keeping our recycling stream free of kind of contaminants.

So we deliver the gold lids, and it's kind of a way for residents to display them for their neighbors so they can kind of show off like, hey, not only am I recycling the proper way, but it's the city kind of giving me recognition that they're kind of saying, like, hey, I'm doing my part in recycling properly.

So our current recycling program started in 2020 after our pilot study was conducted with a very small amount of residents and with uh input and support from the authority and a recycling committee that was formed.

It was decided to move ahead with a recycling program to roll it out to our all uh utility building customers.

And with a curbside recycling program, obviously comes contamination within the recycling stream.

So a inspector, an educator was brought onto the team to conduct contamination audits to educate residents on items that hey, don't recycle these, please recycle these, and just keep a watchful eye on anything that's going on in the uh recycling stream.

So for a data collection for this program, we first started by looking at driver comments that were left when our drivers were servicing recycling carts and then notating any contamination that was spotted when they were servicing them.

And then when we started our field reporting, we had created the contamination audit tool, which was created to decrease the amount of time it was needed to input data when we flip lids and look inside.

Uh this is basically just a program that an inspector can just click knot out, clean, or it's contaminated.

And then once they do click contaminated, they have a pre-selected amount of options where they can select what type of contaminant was was actually on the cart.

So I briefly mentioned this before, but gold lake candidates were selected with the criteria of having a consistent set of rate and also making sure their car was free of contaminants.

And um also should add in here that if there's a resident that is looking to get a gold lid in the future, when we look at data to see what candidates are going to be selected, we're looking at this data at six months at a time.

So we're not looking over the entirety of sort of your contamination history and then judging it based on that.

If someone sees their neighbor has a gold lid and they want to give one as well, we're gonna be looking at that data in a six-month time frame, so there's a lot of time for people to improve and kind of work on um sort of bettering themselves as a recycler.

So I just have on there also just remember that the criteria is having a very consistent set of rate and make sure that it is free of contaminants.

So up here I have some uh most frequent items that we see in a recycling carts that are contaminating it.

So we have styrofoam, bag recyclables, plastic wraps, leftover food, clothing, entanglers, wires, or hoses.

One thing is when these gold leg candidates, when we were looking into them and we were seeing what actually recycling is here that they were recycling, they always kept it extremely simple with what they were actually putting in their cart.