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
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Update on compost bins
o Have the bins for cardboard
o Need to get more bins for the food because original grant fell through
Rep from PSC – Andrea Antell
o A for profit group – provide a service for money
o Want to bring the e-waster recycling program to give back to the
community and their corporate partners
o Program Benefits
 Public awareness and education
 Increase recycling and recovery of e-waste (keep out of landfills)
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 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
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 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
o 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
o Money collected will come back to the university
o 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
o Proposal for common experience for 2011 – sustainability
Email from Ted Ingramson
o February 28 – campus clean up event
 Need speaker – Brock Brown, Jason Sanders – compost
o Need application to provide money for lunch
Mary Waters wants money from ESC for Earth Day Event