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As Co-Chair (with Councilman Tim Sweeney) of the BRISTOL RECYCLES COMMITTEE, which was charged by the Town Council 18 months ago to identify and implement ways to increase recycling rates, I want all to know some of the things we have already accomplished: a formal recycling program in the Bristol-Warren Regional School District that is now recycling 1.5 tons/week vs. ZERO in the past; we showed the award winning documentary TRASHED in the Mt. Hope High School Auditorium free to the public to accentuate the issue of waste disposal, we donated out of our own fund raising monies 250 blue recycle bins to all the homes along the 4th of July parade route so that parade watchers could recycle and not just throw bottles and cans in the trash, we instituted recycling at every concert at Independence Park during the run-up to the 4th of July Parade (never been done before), we've held 2 BRISTOL RECYCLES DAYS over the last year to educate residents about recycling and will hold our Fall 2014 event on Saturday, October 4th at the Bristol Transfer Station from 1:00-3:00p and have already reserved the following organizations to participate: RIRRC, URI Master Composters, IndieRecyles (electronics recycling, takes anything with a plug), Goodwill Industries (ALL clothing, bed linens, etc. regardless of condition) and passed an ordinance requiring any organization that uses public property for an event to work with the DPW to capture their recycling materials. There's more to come but we're GETTING THINGS DONE! Please join us at the Transfer Station and learn all the services available at Bristol's Transfer Station (one of very few in RI that has a compost program). This committee has worked very hard to get the residents educated and motivated to increase recycling rates and will continue to do so in an effort to avoid the logical next step: PAYT (Pay As You Throw) which WILL BECOME NECESSARY if we don't "get our recycling act together"!! Keith Maloney, Chair, BRISTOL RECYCLES