Last Updated: Monday, December 6, 2004 11:47 AM CST
Oneida County recycling on the rise
By Daily News staff
Oneida County residents are recycling more.
According to Bart Sexton, the director of the Oneida County Solid Waste Department, recycling in Oneida County is up eight percent from 2003.
Sexton says state standards for rural areas (areas with less than 70 people per square mile) is 84 pounds of recycling per person per year.
Oneida County is currently tipping the scales at whopping 130 pounds of recyclables per person per year.
Sexton says he can't be sure what's causing the welcome increase in recylcing but notes one possible reason maybe the advent of "two stream recycling".
Sexton says virtually all waste haulers who provide curbside collection of garbage and recycling now collect such recyclables as mixed paper (junk mail, cardboard, magazines, newspapers and office paper) and mixed containers (glass, plastic, tin, aluminum cans/bottles).
"Instead of having to keep eight separate bags/bins for recyclables, customers now only need two," Sexton said. "It seems that the easier we make recycling, the more recycling we now get."
Most of the collected recyclables are sorted/processed at the Oneida County Solid Waste site by workers from Headwaters and Camp McNaughton, Sexton said.
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