HomeMy WebLinkAboutPresentation_Environmental Advisory Committee_5/14/2025 (2)Recycling in Tequesta A Proposal 6442-337-561thomasgerring00@gmail.comHigh School Student and Recycling Enthusiast Thomas Gerring
The Big Problem businesses.Tequesta, especially in our many small Introduce recycling throughout SOLUTION?.natural areas, and beacheslandfills, Plastic and paper end up needlessly in
MEANING…many places throughout Tequesta.Recycling services aren’t offered in HOWEVER…and green initiatives.Nearly everyone supports recycling Challenges to sustainability
1.of the village budget.expensive, pay for recycling out -If fees aren’t ultra-Renegotiate rates-Two Primary Solutions:not exorbitant, they offer little recycling incentive.they must
charge a fee. While these fees are –recyclingWaste Management cannot offer free Meaning?company.profit-fora Waste Management, Recycling pick up is ran by Recycling rates amy make recycling
economically infeasible.
2. Lack of demand for recycling; businesses don’t Additional Issues community action and outreach.Exhibit a demand for recycling via -JHS students can help!via volunteers. Promote recycling
through direct outreach -possible recycling options.3. Businesses and individuals don’t know about think that customers will care about recycling.
Implementation businesses.Helping to facilitate the recycling needs of -civic action.Raising awareness about recycling through -Tequesta about implementing recycling.Reaching out to
small businesses throughout -introduce the necessary pathways.Working with the Village of Tequesta to -to organize recycling.Working with Shopping Plaza Management -the recycling process.Working
with Waste Management to ease -‘Community Side’‘Management Side’How to bring recycling to Tequesta
Why?Tequesta area; recycled plastic = less trash!-Helps to beautify nature in the Jupiter
Why?Sustainability improves Tequesta’s images; our village grows in luster.
Why?A recycling program will build civic engagement and community; people like to help the environment!