421 N. COUNTY FARM ROAD
WHEATON, IL 60187
DU PAGE COUNTY
Environmental Committee
Summary
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
8:30 AM
Room 3500A
1.
CALL TO ORDER
8:30 AM meeting was called to order by Chair Sheila Rutledge at 8:30 AM.
2.
ROLL CALL
Member Evans arrived at 8:31 AM due to attending another committee meeting.
Other Board Members present: Member Patty Gustin and Member Yeena Yoo
Covert, Cronin Cahill, Garcia, LaPlante, and Rutledge
Evans
PRESENT
LATE
3.
CHAIRWOMAN'S REMARKS - CHAIR RUTLEDGE
Chair Rutledge gave an update on the Single Hauler efforts mentioning that 6 townships have
placed it on their ballots. The website with the survey and other information will be emailed to
the members for them to share with their townships to see their results.
Chair Rutledge thanked the Conservation Foundation for allowing her to give opening remarks
for their Environmental Summit and shared information she believed to be important and
valuable such as Ample Harvest.
Chair Rutledge also shared that Kay McKeen and her SCARCE team worked with a grocery
store to donate an excess delivery of strawberries and bananas they had received, keeping all of it
out of a landfill.
4.
PUBLIC COMMENT
David Barcus with Dark Sky International gave updates with Home Depot becoming compliant
with Dark Sky nationally and an update on Brookfield Zoo and the timeline over the next few
months in regards to gaining more compliance with Dark Sky. Barcus also shared the success
and savings of the adaptive lighting system in the parking lots at a college campus.
Kay McKeen, Executive Director of SCARE, provided updates about the Repair Fair that took
place in January and will be taking place again in May. McKeen shared information on the scrap
metal company, Capital Metals, that uses a new technology to sort and recycle non ferrous metals
and provided a look ahead at upcoming SCARCE events including workshops and teacher field
trips.
