Dive summary:
- After the Kanawha County Solid Waste Authority facility in Charleston, W.Va. was shut down for safety and financial reasons, officials are looking to other states for ideas on how to get their recycling program back on track.
- A state-of-the-art recycling facility was built at the county landfill in 2004 with plans to start an aggressive community recycling program but the county is currently having to subsidize the program more than $250,000 a year making it unsustainable.
- The task force is now looking at similar co-mingling recycling programs in cities of comparable populations and new means of transportation, separation and sales that will allow the program to flourish.
From the article:
Members of the Kanawha County Recycling Task Force are looking at programs in other counties and other states for ideas that might help them revive the county's crippled recycling program.
Kanawha County's recycling program has been hobbled since March, when the Kanawha County Solid Waste Authority shut down for safety reasons the 100-year-old building where they were sorting recyclable materials. County officials set up the task force last month to try to find a way to revive the struggling program. ..
