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Show Recycling program taking plastic again k M A hi if7 " -- r' '---MMitoMrrrAiW i'i-'--,-,''riYY It's here at last! There's an 1 8-foot-trailer bed specially built for the Bountiful Recycling Program, waiting to be filled up with three kinds of recyclable plastics. For the past four months the recycling center near the city building at 790 S. 100 E. has been able to accept only glass, tin cans, newspaper, aluminum cans and corrugated cor-rugated cardboard. It now has facilities for accepting plastics again. In the first 10 months of the project, pro-ject, Bountiful has recycled 571 tons of material. That's an estimated four percent of the residential solid waste. They hope to get 10 percent by the end of 1991, a goal that really seems in reach now. "We have had some wonderful cooperation. Bountiful people obviously ob-viously care about the environment and are concerned about keeping recyclable material out of the land fills. We are so thrilled with the response we have had, ' said Celestia Brunsdale, project director. "We are so happy that there are so many people who want to recycle recy-cle absolutely everything, but we just can't do that yet," she said. "Right now there are very lim ited kinds of things that we can get recycled, especially when it comes to plastics. We would really appreciate appre-ciate it if people would not give us things we can't use. We are having trouble with this already. The plastics recycling company has threatened to take away our trailer if we continue to get kinds of plastic that contaminate the collection," said Brunsdale. The big problem is with plastic food containers. We cannot use cottage cot-tage cheese cartons, cooking oil bottles, etc. (See box for what is recyclable.) "We do have to warn people that the trailer will disappear occasionally occasional-ly when we take it to be emptied. We have only one trailer because it was very expensive. So if you ever come to drop off your recyclables and the plastics recycling trailer has vanished, it will be back within a few hours. Please leave the stuff in your car and return the next day," Brunsdale continued. "Please don't ever put anything on the ground if the bins are full. It creates real problems" she emphasized. em-phasized. The money earned from the recycling efforts is divided equally between the Bountiful Beautifica-tion Beautifica-tion Fund and the Golden Years A new trailer made for the Bountiful Recycling Program is now available for plastic items at 790 S. 100 E. In the first 10 months of the project, Bountiful has recycled 571 tons of material for about 4 percent of the residential solid waste. Center. Two hundred trees were planted in Mueller Park as part of the Earth Day celebration, thanks to this project. The membership at the Golden Years Center is hoping to build a covered parking area so that the senior citizens will not have to cross ice and snow to get to their daily hot lunches and other activities. The recycling program is always in need of volunteers. Boy Scouts looking for an Eagle project are especially es-pecially welcome, according to Brunsdale. |
