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Log inGardiner steps up plans to boost recycling
Gardiner steps up plans to boost recycling
by Outspoken on Sat Oct 04, 2008 6:15 am
Gardiner steps up plans to boost recycling
BY MECHELE COOPER
Staff Writer Kennebec Journal
GARDINER -- Eight people have joined the effort to establish a citywide recycling plan.
The council this week created a Recycling Advisory Committee that will be led by resident Judith Dorsey.
Mayor Andrew MacLean said Dorsey is Gardiner's representative on a regional recycling study committee formed last year with the help of a state grant.
Nine municipalities are represented on that committee.
"There's a lot of interest and energy in town for recycling. There has been for years," MacLean said. "It was one of the things I heard mention most often when I was campaigning door to door the last time I ran for office."
City Councilor Martha Mentall said it will be difficult to implement a recycling plan, since residents use different private trash haulers.
"Gardiner doesn't have curbside pickup like Augusta does. You have to pay for your own trash pickup," Mentall said. "So really, the city has nothing to do with it. There's no way you could monitor it, and I brought that up at Wednesday's meeting."
Dorsey said the goal of the regional committee is to try to develop strategies for improving recycling among the nine communities that use Hatch Hill landfill in Augusta.
"We're not doing a very good job compared to the rest of the state," she said.
The regional committee is working on the last draft of its final report, with recommendations for improving recycling that will go out to all the communities involved.
The final report will be available in late October, she said.
She said one of the recommendations in that report is for each community to establish a permanent recycling advisory committee.
http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/5474263.html
BY MECHELE COOPER
Staff Writer Kennebec Journal
GARDINER -- Eight people have joined the effort to establish a citywide recycling plan.
The council this week created a Recycling Advisory Committee that will be led by resident Judith Dorsey.
Mayor Andrew MacLean said Dorsey is Gardiner's representative on a regional recycling study committee formed last year with the help of a state grant.
Nine municipalities are represented on that committee.
"There's a lot of interest and energy in town for recycling. There has been for years," MacLean said. "It was one of the things I heard mention most often when I was campaigning door to door the last time I ran for office."
City Councilor Martha Mentall said it will be difficult to implement a recycling plan, since residents use different private trash haulers.
"Gardiner doesn't have curbside pickup like Augusta does. You have to pay for your own trash pickup," Mentall said. "So really, the city has nothing to do with it. There's no way you could monitor it, and I brought that up at Wednesday's meeting."
Dorsey said the goal of the regional committee is to try to develop strategies for improving recycling among the nine communities that use Hatch Hill landfill in Augusta.
"We're not doing a very good job compared to the rest of the state," she said.
The regional committee is working on the last draft of its final report, with recommendations for improving recycling that will go out to all the communities involved.
The final report will be available in late October, she said.
She said one of the recommendations in that report is for each community to establish a permanent recycling advisory committee.
http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/5474263.html
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