Waste War Special Series: Interview with Elgin City Council Member Carol Rauschenberger

In today's third episode of our Season Three deep-dive series -- Waste Wars -- Tia interviews Elgin City Council Member Carol Rauschenberger.
 
To say Council Member Rauschenberger's "mind is blown" on so very many topics related to the city's Waste/Recycling contract is an understatement. What seems logical to this council member appears to be an foreign concept to waste haulers.
 
[TEASE] For example, should the city council consider NOT renewing recycling services with a contracted waste hauler and divert that monetary savings into operating its own recycling center where it would have more control over what actually gets recycled (and could create a baseline and annual benchmarks to track community progress)?

You're going to have to click-thru to find the answer to this question and many more ideas that Tia and Carol explore.

This episode is a load of FUN!

Oh, and Happy Elgin Earth Month! If you want to participate in our Elgin Earth Month community project that we're calling "Is This Recyclable Or Not Recyclable?" you can CLICK HERE to learn more.

Even if you don't want to participate, you can follow along and learn surprising things about what you can and can't put in your curbside recycling cart by checking out our blog at https://www.elginwatchman.com/blog. For example, can you recycle steel aerosol cans (e.g., Lysol, anti-perspirant, etc.)? Hmmmm? I guess you'll need to click-thru and check out the blog.  ;-)    

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