An article in The Sundance Times, Sundance, Wyoming, reports that the city will make small changes to its recycling program that will be enacted July 1, 2016. This follows an announcement by Campbell County that it will no longer accept recyclables except cardboard.
Western Waste Solutions, Rozet, Wyoming, will continue to run the program but will now direct recyclables to Rapid City, as well as to Moorcroft , Wyoming. Additionally, cardboard will no longer be placed out with the blue recycling bags, the article says.
“Everyone will put what’s allowed in the blue bags,” Public Works Director Mac Erickson told the newspaper. “He will drive around in the morning and pick up all the blue bags first in his truck and then take them out to the transfer station and put them in a big roll-off compactor trailer.”
The list of recyclables approved for the blue bag is otherwise unchanged. It includes:
- aluminum;
- steel; and
- plastics.
Two new dumpsters (behind the fire hall and city hall) will be installed for residents to dispose of their corrugated cardboard, according to the newspaper. All other cardboard, such as cereal boxes, or anything with a photo or waxy finished, should be disposed of in the garbage.
According to Erickson, the plan was enacted to ensure against further changes in future.
“What I assume is going to happen is that, as soon as Moorcroft gets in a bind, we’ll be going to Rapid,” Erickson said. “I’m trying to get it set up now so that, if Moorcroft does get in a bind, we’re already set up to go to Rapid.”
The program will cost an additional $250 per month, which will not be passed onto consumers, The Sundance Times says.
“The city is going to absorb the little additional cost for that compactor and the trips to Rapid,” Erickson told the paper.
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