The Gillette (Wyoming) News Record reports that the Gillette City Council voted Tuesday, June 28, 2016, on a recycling option in Campbell County in which the city would collect recyclables that would then be processed and sold by the county.
The option, proposed by City Administrator Carter Napier, would discontinue the county’s blue bag recycling program in 60 days. However, an alternative collection method has yet to be suggested.
Under the new program, recyclables will no longer be commingled and sorted, a method that has cost the county almost $400,000 annually, the Record says. This option also commits the council to pass stricter laws against commingling recyclables.
Napier also suggested the construction of new, improved recycling depots throughout the county, to work in tandem with the curbside recycling program.
“We really need to have both,” Napier said at the meeting. “They both help each other.”
County commissioners are expected to vote on the recycling issue later in the week. Mayor Louise Carter-King told the newspaper she is confident a solution can be reached.
“I think we can work this out, I really do,” Mayor King said. “I think they realized recycling can’t just go away.”
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