 That would be that in order for people to stay abreast of what currently is acceptable and proper to put in the blue bin. They really should look at the website and and find out there or call I've called before and it's really great to get a live person on the other end of the phone to say, yeah, you know, we can answer your question, boom. So, that's really helpful. I don't see any other hands up. I don't see any other hands. Yeah, Michelle. Looks like Peter has his hand raised. Wow. Yes, hi. Well I'm back. So, I find this topic extremely interesting. And I certainly would encourage everybody to. Visit the merge the current one and certainly when the new one gets built. I have done that. And it's, it's a fascinating window on what happens when you put things into your blue box and where do they go. And so I have voted positively for this bond I think it's an absolutely essential thing. And, you know, it's a, it's a really wonderful opportunity that we have that we can put things in a box out on our street in front of where we live, and the city picks it up. So, I'm really encouraged and excited by this whole aspect. Thanks. Hello, I'm Sarah Reeves, Executive Director of the Chittenden Solid Waste District. Our job at CSWD is to help you make less waste and to help you safely handle the waste that you do produce. We have answers to your questions on recycling, compost, hazardous waste and household trash. CSWD's facilities manage all kinds of materials. Maybe you're familiar with the friendly staff at our drop-off centers where we handle trash, recycling, food scraps and so much more. Or maybe you've brought hazardous waste or leftover paint to the environmental depot. Gardeners may know that Green Mountain Compost is made at CSWD's compost facility from local food scraps and leaves. Half of Vermont's blue bin recycling is processed at CSWD's publicly owned materials recovery facility. We're award-winning educators. We advocate for statewide waste reduction policies and we work with local reuse programs to further those goals. We do all of this without any revenue from property taxes. We're funded by four main sources. These, charge at our facilities, a fee on every ton of Chittenden County trash disposed in the landfill, revenue from selling materials we collect and process, and revenue from products we make, like compost and local color paint. I invite you to find out more about our services and programs by visiting CSWD.net or by giving us a call. Thank you for all you do to reduce your waste and to keep Vermont green. If you're going back to school before you submit your essays. Your blue bin. Think it's just another place to put your household waste? Think again. The things you put in this blue bin are actually valuable resources that are about to embark on an amazing journey we call recycling. This plastic bottle, when it falls into the bin, it's about to take a magic carpet ride to a new life. It could become another bottle or something like this fleece. This is the first stop on the journey. CSWD's materials recovery facility, or MRF for short. Thanks to you, more than 80 million pounds of recyclables are processed in this building each year. They go through a wild series of spinning discs, speeding conveyor belts, whirling magnets. It's sort of like a Willy Wonka factory for recyclables. When they come out the other side, they're shipped off to market to be made into new products. Come into this building. We call it the tip floor. That's because this is where trucks literally tip their recyclables out onto the floor. It can look like quite a mess, but that's only because the MRF hasn't worked its magic yet. Another machine, a skid steer or a loader, pushes it all onto the first conveyor belt, where it heads up the hill and into the pre-sort room. The pre-sort room is where the first line of workers take off bags of shredded paper for special handling. They also take out items that made it into your bin by mistake, like styrofoam, plastic bags, and hazardous materials. It takes concentration in quick hands, but it's important to get these contaminants out now. Contaminants lower the value of recyclables and they can get caught into the machinery or even injure workers. Cardboard is the first material to be sorted. A screening machine with spinning discs pulls off big pieces of cardboard while everything else drops through it onto a conveyor below. After the cardboard, glass is next. Your recyclables go through something called a bottle breaker, which does exactly what it sounds like. It crushes glass into small pieces. That crushed glass falls through a screen onto its own special conveyor. The rest of your recyclables are still on the move. They're heading for two more sorting screens. We call paper, like newspaper and office paper, fibers. These items float on top of the screens, while containers, like plastic bottles and metal cans, bounce down the hill. The fibers head for a conveyor where workers pull out box board and cardboard for separate recycling. And they pull off any trash that might have sneaked by the first steps. The plastic and metal containers are headed for a special machine called the ballistic screen, whose rows of paddle arms weed out any leftover fibers and drop the containers onto their own conveyor. The workers on the next line are looking for plastic containers like jugs, tubs and bottles. These plastics may end up as plastic or composite lumber, bottle caps, or even fleece sweaters. Each worker on this line is looking for a different type of plastic to sort, and each type of plastic needs to be kept separate. That's because every type of plastic is different. Companies that buy the kind of plastic used in water and soda bottles, for example, don't want other plastics. The color of the plastic can also make a difference. A colorless plastic milk jug is worth more because it can be made into more things than one that has been colored or in your blue. Next up, metal. Ferris metals, or metals with iron in them, are in for a fun ride as they pass under a high-powered electromagnet, which lifts them off the conveyor and drops them down a chute into a bunker below. The last sorter on the line is looking for aluminum. Aluminum cans, aluminum pipe hands, big balls of aluminum foil, and those products will be recycled into just about any other product you can think of, made of aluminum. Aluminum siding, engine parts, or another aluminum. After all, the paper, plastics, and metal are sorted out. They're each billed into giant cubes that weigh up to 1,700 pounds apiece. These bails will be loaded onto tractor-trailer trucks and sold to companies that will recycle them into new products. These bails are worth a lot of money. Some are worth $30, some are worth more than $700. Each year, the MRF sells an average of $4 million worth of recyclables. But wait, we're not done yet. Remember that bottle breaker? Well, that broken glass took an exciting trip of its own past vacuums, fans, and magnets that picked out any paper, plastic, or metal bits that may have gotten mixed in. The glass then goes through a spinning cylinder called a trommel, and the end product is used in road building projects and in drainage projects. That's the end of this part of the amazing journey we call recycling. If you were a newspaper or a plastic bottle, your journey would have taken you only a half an hour from door to door. If you ever have a question about what you can recycle in Chittenden County, check out our A to Z list on cswd.net or give us a call at 872. Yes, we have one from Peter. Yes, Peter Sale Burlington. So those videos where I found very informative, it prompted me to ask two questions. Totally different. I believe that black plastic is currently not accepted in the blue bins because of its difficulty in recycling it. Is that because of the dye that's used to make it black? And it prompted me to think, why isn't there a use for that plastic? Because, I mean, we all use it in one degree or another and of course have to throw it out. But I would think things like plastic furniture for your lawn or deck that is low maintenance to no maintenance. Seems like it could be used for something like that. And, you know, any number of other uses. So that's one question and comment. My second one is, I remember reading, it was either in seven days or a VT digger article, probably within the last year about an incidence of PFOAs being found in compost. And of course, nobody wants that. But I wondered if CSWD tests for that in your compost. And if not, if there are measures forthcoming to do that. Thank you. Thank you.