Yes, we will remain unless speaking, but feel free to turn on your camera.

Remain *muted* that is...

If there are any municipal representatives in the “Attendee” area of this meeting, please let us kno via the Chat box

Marilynn Cruz Aponte

Stayed tuned - we are encountering difficulties with moving folks over to the “Panelist” area

Jean Speck - Town of Kent

Panelists - please take a moment to rename yourself in your box to include your organizational affiliation

Terrific discussion and achievements. Can the Zoom meeting administrator find a way to let the public know who is particpating...ie. activate the Participants feature or scroll through the the particpant views? Thank you in advance.

Diane - Panelists should be able to see one another. Attendees cannot. That is how ZOOM Webinars are configured.

Panelists are official municipal representatives and presenters

The meeting minutes will have the attendee list attached and will be on the CCSMM website next week.

To Chris- I have no controls for mic or camera showing

Thank you!

New webpage on the bottle bill redemption center stakeholder page: https://portal.ct.gov/DEEP/Reduce-Reuse-Recycle/Bottles/Bottle-Bill-Stakeholder-Process

Monday, August 9, 20212:00-4:00pm

Love to provide feedback with regards to the redemption process, being an 18 year veteran in the industry!

Bottle Bill stakeholder meeting is August 9

This is all awesome news - THANK YOU!!!

How is the $.05 from the nips distributed to the municipality? Who is the recipient?

Did she miss a bullet about organics?

will bottle bill funds go through town CEO?

My apologies I have to go. Although I will be taking the session on the road and may not be available to answer any questions regarding CT PSC and the path to EPR, but please feel free to email me at Jennifer@hrra.org

Attendees can pose questions in the Chat Box

I believe that the overwhelming success of the grocery bag fee boded well for other initiatives, such as pay as you throw.

Why does Sustainable CT require crowd funding rather than evidence of community support for grants? I imagine many communities wouldn’t be able to raise much through crowd funding, but might be deserving of a grant.

Thank you everyone!! Janice

Will recycleCT be reviewing and picking the winners and losers for these grant programs? Thanks.

There is an EPA grant out for Biodigester studies. What is DEEP's current plan for regional biodigesters? We need one for both sludge and food waste. Will you be siting these regionally, or should I pursue my own stucy and grant?

Plastic bag-related complaints can be directed to WEED’s COMPASS (Compliance Assistance) line at (888) 424-4193

For any legislative follow up questions you may have please feel free to reach out to me at Harrison.Nantz@ct.gov

Search for food waste permitting options on the DEEP website

Can you put that link in the chat box?

https://portal.ct.gov/DEEP/Waste-Management-and-Disposal/Organics-Recycling/Food-Residual-Composting-Facilities

TY!

Great to hear about this progress in SCRCOG!

I’m sorry if this was mentioned — but how is Meridan, source separating? Is the transfer station set up to separate the bags?

What do you do with the effluent output from the digester?

Meriden is working with a private solid waste facility to receive/separate the MSW and organic bags. The project is expected to be authorized by DEEP as a Temporary Authorization or Demonstration Project

www.aggridenergy.com

rashi.akki@aggridenergy.com

The link isn’t clickable

The links will be in the slides when they are uploaded to the CCSMM website

can you put Sherill's email back up please?

The slides and links will be on this page ASAP: https://portal.ct.gov/DEEP-CCSMM

Sherill.Baldwin@ct.gov

yes!

Yes on food scrap collection at schools!

Yes too!

Thanks for presentations today. It has been quite informative Can you provide information as to the short term

Can you provide some information on the short term plan to handle the solid waste while the transition at MIRA takes place? Thank you.

User fee!

Please raise hand or type in Chat Box to pose a question

Do we have short-term and long-term goals for collection of organics. We need to understand the volumes of food waste that would be available to define our next set of projects.

Thank you!