NewsChannel5, Nashville, Tennessee, reports that Metro Nashville Public Works and the Davidson County Solid Waste Region Board released a survey Thursday, July 21, 2016, asking residents for input to improve the county’s recycling program.
"Nashville’s a beautiful city,” Jenna Smith, Metro Public Works public information officer, told NewsChannel5. “And we want to make sure that it stays beautiful and it stays clean and that we are as environmentally responsible as we can be.”
The survey was part of an effort to create a long-term plan for managing solid waste and recycling, the article says. One of the central issues to this plan is glass recycling, which cost Nashville more than $143,000 in 2015.
“We’re paying about $40 a ton for bringing glass to the recycling center,” Smith said in the interview. “It’s actually cheaper to bring it to a landfill.”
The plan will consider multiple strategies for diverting waste streams from landfills and also will replace Davidson County’s soon-to-expire solid waste plan, which was approved by the board in 2008, the article says.
“There’s not going to be a stone unturned as far as what we look at,” Smith said.