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Minutes - San Leandro City Council Meeting - June 1, 1992 Page - 16 - PUBLIC HEARINGS (continued) RESOLUTION NO. 92-133 (2047) RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE FINAL DRAFT OF THE CITY OF SAN LEANDRO SOURCE REDUCTION AND RECYCLING ELEMENT AND HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE ELEMENT Introduced by Council Member Myers, who moved its adoption, seconded by Council Member Faria, and carried by the following called vote: AYES: Council Members Corbett, Faria, Kerr, Myers, Perry, Polvorosa; Mayor Karp ( 7 ) NOES: None ( 0 ) ABSENT: None ( 0 ) Mayor Karp noted that Council Members Faria and Kerr are on the Waste Management Board and do a fine job and Council Member Corbett is an Alternate. He said San Leandro is going to become the capital of California when it comes to recycling. He said in 1977 the Board of Zoning Adjustments approved a recycling station in San Leandro. He said it was required that the Transfer Station would eventually become a recycling station. He said there have been a number of discussions with Oakland Scavenger and Waste Management, and they are in the process of bringing plans to the Board of Zoning Adjustments for approval of a recycling center in San Leandro. Mayor Karp also noted that the City has been working with a piece of revolutionary recycling equipment that cuts material to one-quarter to minus one-quarter inch, source separates ferrous and non-ferrous metal , separates glass and plastic, and separates paper, and the resulting material is an organic product that can be mixed with sludge and used as fertilizer. He said this process works extremely rapidly, results in a soil amendment, and uses 80% of the waste material which it processes. He said it is only a matter of getting final approval and going through the EIR process. Mayor Karp commended Bob Taylor on the fine job he has done on this matter.