watch and listen to the talking news every day at twelve noon and six pm on channel ninety six comcast ticks finity and channel thirty verizon fi os it can also be heard mondays and tuesdays at just search for the belmont media podcast network and now on to the talking news china recycling ban may affect trash contract be it's by gerry new trash and recycling contract due to a policy decision made on the other side of the world china a major importer of scrap paper and plastic from around the world announced in july that it was preparing to ban the import of certain types of used plastics by twenty eighteen and put new restrictions on the types of scrap paper allowed into the country the chinese government told the world trade organization the new policies were intended to improve environmental conditions within the country prices of mixed paper and cardboard have dropped significantly and that has increased the cost of recycling within the united states explained bob cap and ana vice president of recycling focus salo recycling one of the largest recycling processors in the northeast ma caught is working is worried excuse me how this ban will affect the bids he gets from trash and recycling collection companies russell disposal incorporated of some of will which belmont currently uses mockups the recycling materials and gets revenue from which which helps reduce what he charges belmont we might be faced with a contract where we have to pay for recycling to be processed and not and not only hauled said ma caught ma caught said this ban may also affect belmont's dual stream recycling where paper is separated out of glass and plastic because outlets may no longer take dual stream recyclables anymore he believes they will all go to a single stream he had a big meeting with contractors on december sixth and many of them asked him if belmont would consider other options such as single stream or an adjustable rate for processing recycling bids adieu back january eighth makata expects the belmont board of selectmen to vote on the contract at the end of january the new contract would stop july first massachusetts environmental officials and recycling companies say residents should continue to recycle but they are also taking the opportunity to remind people that keeping inappropriate materials out of curbside bins helps keep recycling costs down for everyone in recent decades cargo ships have routinely hold billions of dollars worth of scrap materials to china which chinese mills purchased the materials then used the recycled scrap in consumer products are sold abroad due to the trade deficit between the u s and chinese markets cogdill ships that bring chinese goods to the united states have traditionally offered discounted rates to transport bales of processed recyclables on their return trips to china china historically has been a very large importer of recyclables from all over the world including the united states and they turn those into products they shipped back to of the countries said greg cooper director of business compliance and recycling for the massachusetts department of environmental protection according to some estimates forty percent of all recycling materials go to china but that trade has evaporated recently after the chinese government announced its new environmental standards and on with further information is clear thank you bob what this means for the near future casella recycling which is headquartered in rutland vermont processes eight hundred thousand tons of materials each year including two hundred thirty thousand out of its boston facility and ninety thousand out of a facility in auburn casella which processes materials from approximately one hundred massachusetts cities and towns has historically exported about twenty five percent of its materials to china over the past couple months material within the us has now had to go to other countries such as vietnam korea india and indonesia kept on a said they have five or males but not the capacity china has the result has led to a worldwide drop in demand for the materials sending prices into a tailspin in addition to banning the import of materials the chinese government also announced new restrictions on the amount of contaminants or no one recyclable material present in each bale of recyclables allowed into the country if the chinese government sticks with its new restrictions american recycling processes will need to invest in new machinery to do a better job of filtering out materials that don't belong it would also likely reduce the speed at which material could be processed potentially increasing costs marybeth counting on belmont's recycling coordinator believes companies that process recycling will invest all their money towards processing single stream recycling which will cost more because it will slow down the conveyor belt and add more workers to the line the changes are necessary to take out contaminated items to make sure the end product is purse king it's not uncommon for people to mix trash into their recycling bins or mistakenly include items such as plastic bags and plastic silverware which cannot be processed by most facilities that take in curbside materials this is real and we are going to be faced with some pretty interesting times said mark cried he said the town may be forced to tell residents only certain things are recyclable in western parts of the u s market what once was recycling is now trash kalyan said once it is determined if belmont will continue to be dual stream or need to change to single stream recycling there will be a lot of public education to help prevent recycling and contamination wishful recycling would be something such as pens straws plastic toys hard plastic packaging lego's things that aren't containers she said in the meantime mass d he p and recycling processes are encouraging residents to be more careful about the types of materials they put in their curbside bins it's not uncommon for people to mix trash into their recycling bins or mistakenly include items such as plastic bags and plastic silverware which cannot be processed by most facilities that take in curbside materials now over to max well given the previous two stories reduce reuse recycle this holiday seasons by marybeth counted did you know that americans throw out an extra million tons of trash per week from thanksgiving to christmas during this time i hope that belmont residents will be mindful of this fact and make an effort to reduce their trash but lower suggestions for your convenience wrapping paper and gift bags can be reused and recycled please do not use wrapping paper or gift bags made out of glitter or for oil these items look pretty but cannot be recycled holiday cards can be re and recycled just as for oil or glitter wrapping paper can't be recycled neither can cards holiday cards can be saved and used as gift tags for the following year try sending holiday cards electronically as a paperless option this year be conscious of the packaging that gifts come in if your purchase comes in excess of packing look for a different brand or send an email to the company expressing your disappointment with the amount of natural resources energy and money wasted on ineffective packaging please do not put kerr cardboard boxes curbside with the inside packaging inside empty the box and flatten styrofoam can be placed in the trash and plastic film can be brought to the supermarket and recycled with plastic grocery bags cardboard and catalogs can be recycled with online shopping gaining in popularity more households are being inundated with cardboard boxes according to earth nine one one dot com ninety percent of all products are shipped in cardboard please recycle by breaking down boxes into no larger than three foot by three foot sections and placing under the bin or bundling together no higher the nine inches when in doubt about placing it curbside consider if the re crew can easily grip and fit it in the truck lastly think about buying a gift that is environmentally friendly a reusable coffee mug a water bottle will help cut down on plastic water bottles and disposable coffee cups for commuters some coffee shops are offering a bottomless mug program that can be purchased as a gift reusable lunch bags and sandwich bags are great gifts for school aged children that will save on money and natural resources decorative reusable grocery bags can be used as a gift bag and then later to hold groceries other gift ideas that require little packaging include tickets to the movies theater passes to museum or gift cards happy holidays and please remember to reduce reuse and then recycle during that this time as well as throughout the year thanks for improved for recycling improving the environment and quality of life for all also there will be a cardboard recycling event for those cardboard boxes that are larger than three feet please store them until the end of december the d p w will collect cardboard every year i blow my candles and make the same wish i wish i were a boy that is the voice of ray ramona sensitively played by ellie fanning at the start of three generations actualize what he feels to be his true felt and authentic gender identity raise family context is modern he lives with his single mother maggie naomi watts and his lesbian maternal grandmother dolly doto susan sarandon and her longtime partner francis honey played by linda edmond brownstone in new york city's lower east side ray states all i ever wanted was normal he careens around his neighborhood on a skateboard his family doctor explains the changes that will happen to his body when he begins the hormone treatment since ray is a minor he requires parental consent to proceed bringing other family issues to a head more of his mother's ambivalence surfaces and his grandmother rest why can't she just be a lesbian but we see that ray cannot he is determined to go through with his gender transition is urgency has a familiar adolescent flavor but it is heightened because we learn that this is not a new idea razan bracing he has felt this way since he was four years old the familiar corollary dilemma is that ray continues to press to reach his goal his family becomes more as it and and and resistant to the idea here in particular his mother maggie is caught in the dilemma because she is here to force supported ray on his path but she is anxious about whether he is mature enough to make such an impactful decision and her internal conflict as a parent makes it hard for her to completely form meggie tracks down the father named on ray's birth certificate and old beau who no longer is in the picture settle down with a new wife and kids it in pleasantville craig needs to needs time to digest the idea here and initially refused to sign the parental consent form this leads ray to confront his father determined to get the consent form signed and proceed with his life a new set of issues a marriage creating additional plotlines to the film something critics have objected to as much contrivance as there is in the story i felt a great resonance with what i often encounter in the lives of my patients and others i know namely the new issue of like struggling with being transgender or having a child of parent w transgender is always made more complex by the particular context of each situation every family member usually has a different perspective on how the situation impacts them they feel should happen next and how to communicate above it all this is what ensues here as we get to see each person in ray's family traverse the crisis unlike the critics i thought the way it unfolded was real like real life in which we get ray's view through his musical digital diary where you also see him in his family context at one point races i want to emancipate myself from all of you to which is mum replies it's not that easy ray then replies if it were easy most kids would be doing it the line gets a chuckle but it speaks on a deeper level to the truth that adolescence is a time when peoples strive to develop into their own person and yet the imprints and legacies of family relationships last lifetimes thousand and sixteen eloquent study of grief manchester by the sea directed by kenneth lonergan who won an oscar for the screenplay casey affleck who won the oscar for best actor plays leigh chandler a man haunted by a tragic trauma that has put his life on hold and is forced to relive the trauma when his brother joe dies and he assumes custody of his sixteen year old nephew patrick played exquisitely by newcomer lucas hedges as lead returns to his manchester by the sea hometown in the aftermath of his brother's death we see him relive flashbacks to his traumatic past while he unsuccessfully copes with the demands of the present lease juggles to arrange the funeral and care for patrick who wants to me and maintain normalcy and his life until he has a panic attack while scavenging the freezer for a late night snack and in typical adolescent style what is not normal about the scene is that the frozen chicken reminds patrick of the fact that his father cannot be buried until the ground thaws in the spring something he cannot accept patrick finally crashes after holding a stoic stance throughout the funeral the event of lee's brother's death also brings his ex wife reality michelle williams back into his life lead tries to handle everything but he repeated lee starts fist fights at bars when he is this regulated by something drinking and losing it meaning that he cannot stay in manchester by the sea the place of his trauma any longer leap prepares to flee to charlestown leaving patrick to be adopted by joe's boat mate and best friend george patrick does not want to let his uncle go even though they fight constantly leak counters by telling patrick that he is getting a place in boston big awfully to visit him on the weekends indicating that he is not rejecting patrick outright he just has to take care of himself this happens after randy attempts to apologize to lee and have some sort of reconciliation this film should become a classic study of complicated grief after a severe trauma it portrays a man leeching handler using maladaptive coping mechanisms like drinking punching windows losing his temper and exhibiting a number of other sentence of p t s d when he is reintroduced to the situation that reminds me him all of his trauma in addition leaf feels responsible for the trauma and the guilt in which he is stuck incapacitates him further he tries to redeem himself by trying to care for his nephew patrick as an act of gratitude for his deceased brother who we see comfortingly after his trauma in lee's flash brandt backs when his ex wife randy approaches him and tells him she loves him and wants to reconnect le inability to forgive himself leads him to feel urgent about fleeing manchester by the sea despite his feeling of obligation to jo him patrick we experience lease grief emotional paralysis damaged a way of relating in the impact of all this on the people he loves director and screenwriter kenneth lonergan commented i think manchester is really about grieving and trying to get on after something terrible has happened to an adult and her whole life is being destroyed and then what are the forces that keep him involved with the people he loves and they love him and they won't let him go quote from and on the internet movie database now here's max thanks clear there's another movie review of the movie moonlight goalie older it's some point you got to decide who you want to be cam and nobody make that decision for you says juan my hair shiela the winner of best supporting actor oscar the adult directed by oscar nominee barry jenkins we see three chapters of twenty years of cairo's life growing up as a young black man in miami from the one nine hundred eighty s onward chirurgeons life is full of paradoxes is raised by his mother paula who we first see in a nurse's aide uniform but who increasingly becomes addicted to crack sold by juan's dealers on the streets of liberty city the area of miami where they all live paula is both critical of and needy towards kyron forcing him to become increasingly independent as she struggles with poverty and drug addiction the hazing and bullying kyron suffers at the hands of male peers neglect he suffers from his mother escalate until he finally takes revenge and slams a chair over the head of one of his tormentors but not before he experiences his first kiss from his friend kevin who later beats  brutally in the schoolyard in front of their peers to prove that he is not soft like connor on as we see in the third chapter kyron emerges from jail with a muscled body and assumes the mantle of drug dealer like his early protector won tyrone even has the same crown ornament on the dashboard of his car as one one is the closest thing to a father kyron seems to have so it's not surprising that kyron follows in the in the footsteps of juan finally kyron now known as black which was kevin's nickname for kyron when they were teens goes to seek heaven after many years without contact and we leave the two of them embracing this is a coming of age story that is full of complicated feelings and relationships we are fully immersed in a black community located in the slums of miami rife with drugs guns and poverty this grim picture paired with the film's opening song every n word is a star written by boris gardner and sung by kendrick lamar plays from one's car radio foreshadowing the struggle between resiliency and circumstance this juxtaposition lays out the contradictions we experience want as benevolent yet he prescribed he provides the drugs that destroy kairos mother and make her a negligent parent kyron is forced to hide his softness his sexuality the shame of his mother's addiction and consequently collect and poverty over to you bob hill roll call by bob katz and the minimum wage hike increasing as it increases the minimum hourly wage from eleven dollars per hour to twelve dollars and twenty nineteen thirteen dollars in two thousand and twenty and fourteen dollars in two thousand and twenty one and fifteen dollars in the twenty twenty to raise up massachusetts the group sponsoring the question says it has dropped off one hundred thirty nine thousand and fifty five signatures our state's economy works best for everyone when all working people are able to meet their basic needs said spokesman andrew fried to nano but today a full time worker in massachusetts earning the current minimum wage of eleven dollars an hour can afford the cost of groceries housing heating and of the basic needs family and medical leave creates a program to provide paid family and medical leave to massachusetts workers rise up massachusetts is also the group sponsoring this question and says sponsors dropped off one hundred thirty five thousand five hundred ninety seven signatures are family medical emergency when a family the medical emergency happens or a new child is born workers are often left to choose between taking care of the family member they love or keeping the job that puts food on the table spokesman andrew reduce sales tax to five percent and establish a sales tax holiday reduces the state's sales tax from six point two five percent to five percent and at the same time establishes an annual two day permanent sales tax holiday in august that allows consumers buying most products that cost under two thousand five hundred dollars without paying the tax there exists again if it can support for reducing state sales tax and creating an annual sales tax holiday with the voters as evidenced by recent public polls and the ease with which we are able to collect signatures said john hirst chairman of the coalition and president of the retail association of massachusetts voters support reducing the sales tax because it hits seniors in low income families disproportionately and it is making it more difficult for a small businesses to compete with the tax free new hampshire and online sellers and now over to clare thank you bob in support of aid in dying by susan patchen licensed social worker in march two thousand and seventeen i participated in a legislative education and advocacy day it was a wonderful opportunity for social work students to learn how to lobby for bills that support social work values one of the bills and act relative to end of life options had a public hearing at t joint committee for public health on september twenty sixth two thousand and seventeen this bill affirms the right of any mentally capable terminally ill adult with a prognosis of six months or less to live to determine his or her own medical treatment options at the end of the a life the hearing will provide social workers another it's an opportunity to advocate for legalized medical aid in dying a bill that i believe supports our shared values of respect for each individual's right to self determination and dignity the end of life options act defines he didn't dying as the medical practice of the physicians prescribing lawful medication to a qualified patient who the patient may choose to self administer to bring about a peaceful death the billick stablish is eligibility requirements which include the patient must be eighteen years old or have a prognosis of six months or less to live up to gain a second opinion confirming the terminal diagnosis be evaluated by a mental health professional to determine that depression or other mental health issues are not influencing their request and informed consent and the option to rescind the protection professionals involved in prescribing medical aid are spelled out in medical aid in dying is this true distinguished from assisted suicide coercion of any kind would be a criminal act a dying laws were successfully adopted in oregon washington california colorado montana vermont and the district of columbia many of the states are considering bills in very happy new year and we thank you for listening to the talking news and hope you've enjoyed the show we will return next week for another edition of local news happenings around belmont