First, a question for Eureka's Susan Hubbard, who writes: >Another continued bit of misinformation is that we are not fully operational. >We are currently handling the same amount, type and stream (source >separated) material in our facility that Minneapolis generates.
I didn't say Eureka wasn't fully operational; they have a facility in New Brighton that has been operating for St. Paul's materials. I'm talking about Eureka's new *Minneapolis* facility. Susan, are you talking about that one? Because I am. That's the one where Minneapolis trucks must go. (If the Minneapolis facility has construction/startup snafus, city trucks will have to go to Eureka's New Brighton facility. That will raise the city's truck-operating costs and reduce Solid Waste's net proceeds used to keep garbage fees level.) I write, then Chris J. writes: > > One other correction: Eureka has only been operating its own recycling > > pickup since April 2003 - so they have yet to celebrate their first > > anniversary as an operator. > > I think you're splitting hairs, David. Eureka has been in operation for > 15 years as an entity, became Eureka Recycling as a separate entity in > 2001, and began picking up recyclables via truck in April, 2003. We agree on my fundamental point: Eureka has only picked up recycling for 11 months. (I don't believe its original incarnation ever picked up recyclables.) > Picking up the recyclables via truck is not rocket science, If pickup was so easy, Eureka wouldn't have used outside contractors (including BFI) for 14 of its 15 years. > Further, any criticism of Eureka for its name and organizational > changes, while at the same downplaying or intentionally ignoring WMI's > and BFI's extremely checkered pasts is completely bankrupt. You're missing the context of my original post: many on the list have sung the praises of Eureka, and damned WMI. Fair enough; I agree with most of that. My post was to add legitimate operational concerns about Eureka into the discussion. > Incidentally, I didn't accuse anyone of a crime -- I said the behavior > appears like bribery is being committed. Now who's splitting hairs? David Brauer Kingfield Likes Eureka, likes comprehensive debate more. REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
