Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, July 27, 1990                   TAG: 9007280407
SECTION: SMITH MOUNTAIN TIMES                    PAGE: SMT-6   EDITION: BEDFORD
SOURCE: DAVID M. POOLE STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: ROCKY MOUNT                                LENGTH: Short

RECYCLING START CALLED ENCOURAGING

County Administrator Richard Huff said his office has received calls from a number of county residents complaining that the two recycling bins behind the courthouse were full.

"It's encouraging," Huff said. "It's catching on. Recycling is the buzz word of the 1990s."

This fall, Franklin County will add 11 recycling stations (see map).

Each station will have a box for newspapers, scrap paper, cardboard, aluminium, tin and other metals. Six will accept glass and the remaining six will accept plastics, according to Assistant County Administrator John Lester.

The bins at Franklin County High School, the county's Virgil Goode Building and the county landfill will accept both glass and plastics, Lester said.

The Board of Supervisors is seeking bids from companies to provide the recycling containers and empty them periodically.

Budgeted at $50,000, the program is the county's first step toward meeting the General Assembly's requirement that localities recycle 25 percent of their trash by 1995.

For several months, Cycle Systems of Roanoke has provided two recycling bins for free behind the Virgil Goode Building.

Huff said county residents have kept the boxes full. "Rather than being apathetic and throwing them in the trash, they're taking them home and calling us to empty them," he said.