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Recycling Center is open Monday, Wednesday and Friday By Linda Waggener At this morning's Adair County Solid Waste Committee meeting, three Magistrates - Sammy Baker, Daryl Flatt and Billy Coffey - attended with the coordinator David Beasley and Judge Gale Cowan, for a discussion of where things stand and where we're going in recycling. For now, the Recycling Center is open Monday, Wednesday and Friday each week from 7amCT-3pm. Calls continue coming in to officials to ask if the recycling trailers will be replaced around the city - they will not. Recycling efforts were tried at one time by the City and were discontinued due to cost not being sustainable at that time. That is where County government is now. The bottom line is that Adair County Recycling has reached a point where the operation - as it was, with the blue recycling trailers spotted around town - can not be sustained. The Center will remain open three days a week for now but the issue of what happens next is huge. To help with the work involved which can help contain costs, individuals can clean and separate before dropping off at the Recycling Center. This morning it was reviewed that: - Plastic drink bottles (water and soda) are Number 1s and should be rinsed and separated and dropped off; - Milk bottles and laundry bottles are Number 2s and should be rinsed and separated and dropped off; - Cardboard boxes should be broken down and flattened and dropped off; - Newspapers should be separated from Copier paper when dropped off; - Aluminum cans should be rinsed and separated when dropped off. There is no "ship it off" option when there are no buyers to pay for hauling and processing, and that is where we are now. If the market for recyclables changes, which could happen in the coming months, it would help if there were more space to store and hold these items. Today's lesson for me was "Rinse it out before throwing it out." I had not known, for instance, that if more than 5% of the bottles are dirty, then the whole shipment is rejected by a potential buyer. Click 'comment' below to add your thoughts. Letters with information and ideas (not blame) are welcome on the subject. It was clear that individual property owners are, more and more, responsible for everything that our hands, from the moment of tossing. This story was posted on 2019-10-18 11:52:12
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