Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, February 16, 1991 TAG: 9102160116
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
DATELINE: DUBLIN LENGTH: Medium
In unison, they dropped the containers into a recycling bin for plastics on the Wade's Supermarket parking lot - the first of much glass, plastics, aluminum cans and newspapers to be left there, they hope.
"We're also looking toward making recycling mandatory in the Town of Dublin," said David Stanley, a member of Town Council who has been active in local recycling efforts. "We're drafting an ordinance to that effect."
Town Manager Gary Elander said the town began recycling efforts last year with the appointment of a recycling committee and establishment of four recycling containers.
Dublin Flower Shop, Cie-G's, Classic Cars and the Amoco Service Station collected 21,614 pounds of glass and 877 pounds of aluminum for recycling during 1990.
Elander said this project with the authority represents an expansion of that effort. It will be carried out on a one-year trial basis.
A similar project with the authority has been started by the Town of Pulaski on its Kroger parking lot.
The state is requiring localities to recycle at least 10 percent of their wastes by July and 25 percent by 1995. Elander said the town shares that goal.
Fred Hilliard, the authority's program director, said a goal for recycling is to offer residents curbside pickup of separated materials, but this drop-off center will give people a start in separating recyclables.
Other participants at the ceremony, kept brief because of the 15-degree temperature and winds cutting across the parking lot, were store manager Frank Bibb, Town Councilman Colbern Linkous and Mark Aust, president of Gem City Iron & Metal Co. Inc. of Pulaski, which is supplying the containers.
Money from the sale of waste to recyclers will be used to help cover the cost of renting the containers and collecting the materials from them.
by CNB