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Show Curbside recycling plans approved by council There is a need for recycling to become profitable, so Solid Waste Management is working aggressively aggressive-ly to make it happen. The district is putting together a two-year education edu-cation program. They are contacting contac-ting all of the cities in the district and asking them to put information in their newsletters. They are trying to make sure that all problems that can occur are addressed properly. Hofeling feels strongly that success depends on standardization for as many homes as possible in Davis County using the curbside program. A motion was passed agreeing to a proposal to a year's pilot program. "Hopefully by a year's end, we will become recycling junkies," Mayor Blaine Nelson said ByJANIS CARTER FRUIT HEIGHTS-If Fruit Heights will be the pilot program for curbside recycling for a year, then Waste Management will provide pro-vide bins and pickup at no cost to the city or citizens, Ross Hofeling, Waste Management, told the Fruit Heights mayor and city council. As a result of the city survey that was taken in September, it is apparent ap-parent that 40-50 percent of the citizens are in favor of some type of recycling program, said Chuck Richards. Richards, chairman of Fruit Heights recycling program, presented to the oouncil results of the survey dealing with recycling and other information he had gathered. Richards, along with Hofeling, gave the council an overview over-view of what the curbside program would involve. Waste Management would provide pro-vide one or more bins, which come in many different shapes and sizes, to each household subscribing to the program. Bins could be kept inside in-side the house for convenience of disposing recyclable materials. Biweekly on days other than the regular garbage pickup day, the home owner would take the bin or bins to the curbside for pickup. "Recycling is an integral part of the mission statement for our master plan," said LeGrand Bitter, executive director of Solid Waste Management. He is hoping recycling recycl-ing will catch on countywide and the cities will be uniform in the program they choose. Right now there is no substantial revenue made from recycling, because the demand is not there for recycled materials. Factories are not set up to use recycled materials rather than raw materials. The motivation has to be because of an interest in the environment and saving resources. In the Northwest Nor-thwest there is a 26 percent reduction reduc-tion in the volume going into their landfills because of recycling, said Bitter. |