Norm Steenstra has made some great changes at the Kanawha County Solid Waste Authority over the past year. I put out some plastic, metal cans and newspapers to be picked up and recycled, but wasn't aware until I saw the Daily Mail article that they can take glass at the main plant, or that such a wide variety of plastic can now be recycled. I don't know if they make much money from some of the recycling (the ground up glass is evidently given away), but it keeps the material out of the landfill and reduces the County's tipping fee. Any environmentally safe reuse is welcome.
Some of us came up against Norm in his former life as a lobbyist for West Virginia Citizen's Action Group, where he advocated on a variety of environmental topics. It is good to see his talents being employed to find an effective reuse of some of the County's solid waste.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
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