Meeting Minutes for the Environmental Service Committee of Texas State University-San Marcos

February 18, 200

Attendance

Committee Members Present:

• Hayat Qurunful, Chair, ASG Student Representative

• Melody R. Baker, ASG Student Representative

• Leah Gibson, NAEP Student Representative

• John Montoya, NAEP Student Representative

• Kayte Wilcox, ASG Student Representative

• Will Fox, RHA Representative

• Tina Cade, Agriculture Faculty Advisor

• Randy Simpson, Biology Faculty Advisor

• Alberto Giordano, Geography Faculty Advisor

• Nancy Nusbaum, Account Manager

Members Absent

• Nathan Lawrence

Guests

• Representatives from PSC – about e-waste recycling

Start of Meeting – 5:25PM
  • Update on compost bins
  • Have the bins for cardboard
  • Need to get more bins for the food because original grant fell through
  • Rep from PSC – Andrea Antell
  • A for profit group – provide a service for money
  • Want to bring the e-waster recycling program to give back to the community and their corporate partners
  • Program Benefits
  • Public awareness and education
  • Increase recycling and recovery of e-waste (keep out of landfills)
  • Generate proceeds to further promote sustainability
  • Contribute to the university community
  • PSC Capabilities
  • Company strength and size – have experience working with public and private institutions
  • Have waste management resources
  • Campaign details
  • Saturday april 25
  • Collection hours 9-2
  • Major participants
  • PSC, Tx State, AERC, Home depot
  • For students, faculty, and staff – university waste must be processed though the warehouse
  • City of San Marcos – also interested in funding the drop
  • Goal: collection of wide range of e-waste
  • Not appliances, lamps,
  • Anything w/ a circuit board and/or battery
  • Recycling Highlights
  • Parterning with AERC/ Com-cycle in Houston
  • U.S. only de-manufacture and recycling
  • Comply w/ BASEL, EPA, NAID regs
  • No landfill
  • PSC & AERC roles
  • Complete program management – notification permits, police, etc…
  • Event logistics
  • Volunteer supervision
  • Collection, packaging, and transportation of materials
  • Recycling
  • Tx State responsibilities
  • University
  • Location and logistical support
  • Event clean up
  • Resources: forklifts, etc
  • Donation and/or student gratuity – food, t-shirts, etc to feed volunteers
  • Access to student-faculty committee
  • Student volunteers
  • Oversight of student resources
  • Need $10,000 in donations or in-kind commodities to pull this off
  • Proceeds will come back to the campus
  • Possible change of date?
  • There already a lot of events occurring in San Marcos on that day
  • Most green kids are busy that day
  • What about dorm move out?
  • PSC - Need 50 volunteers servicing 500 vehicles
  • Will also have an earth day festival showcasing their sponsors
  • Advertising – PSC will work with a student/faculty group for making contact
  • Locations – Houston, Pharr, Buda, El Paso, Avalon/Dallas
  • UT and A&M – have not done this, so we could be the first
  • Consideration of PSC proposal
  • Earth day is a good day to do it because people will already be here
  • Advertise is sufficiently
  • Geography alumni reunion on the same day – advertise to them
  • Money collected will come back to the university
  • A lot of organization is needed
  • Print services, port-a-potties, HEB, dumpsters, advertising, volunteers, etc…
  • Maybe give $5000, they said they would take less
  • City of San Marcos – interested in helping but cannot provide funding – advertising, man hours, etc.
  • Maybe have a white waste disposal on the same day
  • Need to initiate a We Cycle program
  • Proposal for common experience for 2011 – sustainability
  • Email from Ted Ingramson
  • February 28 – campus clean up event
  • Need speaker – Brock Brown, Jason Sanders – compost
  • Need application to provide money for lunch
  • Mary Waters wants money from ESC for Earth Day Event