GIVING BACK: Local recyclers rule

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September 26, 2011

By Louise Gorenflo Chronicle contributor The Crossville Chronicle Mon Sep 26, 2011, 03:38 PM CDT

CROSSVILLE — The Crossville Chronicle’s website has been running an informal survey the past few months on community opinions about recycling. Obviously, the poll is not the most scientific sample of county opinion as readers of the Chronicle tend to be more educated and aware of our community, but the results clearly announce that recycling has become the new “normal” for our community. Every year, the County Recycling Center collects and sells more recyclables, making enough money to cover its expenses and then some.

The Chronicle’s poll points to the importance of convenience in recycling. The county is looking at several options to make it easier for more households to do so. One is buying more recycling boxes and putting them around the community, but that may be judged unaffordable. Another option is for the county to merge two of its fifteen Convenience Centers, perhaps the two with the lightest volume. In their place, the county would look for two or three acres to purchase somewhere between these existing centers and place a full service recycling center. This wouldn’t happen until 2013, so there is time to make good decisions.

The county will purchase an Andela glass pulverizing system. Look at this YouTube video to see this machine in operation - www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnvJXIgkORU. Glass pulverizing should begin sometime in mid-November. Right now the county is looking at ways to develop a market for the crushed and smoothed glass products. The County Road Department could use some to offset its use of other purchased road materials. The county would like to sell the glass to landscapers to use instead of river gravel. By the way, river gravel does come from streams and rivers. Removing gravel from the beds of rivers seriously harms rivers. So if you have a choice, go with the glass landscaping material and be river-friendly. The county would like to sell the product for $75-$80/ton.

Following up on last month’s column on glass recycling, Marge Davis, stalwart point person for the Tennessee Bottle Bill, reports that the state legislature will have another opportunity to approve a five cent deposit for beverage containers. You can contact Marge at margedavis@comcast.net or visit www.tnbottlebill.org for more information.

If you have recycling questions, please let me know and I will try to get answers: lgorenflo@gmail.com.

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