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Warrick County board approves change to small-business recycling program to curb contamination
Summary
The Warrick County Solid Waste Management District Board voted unanimously to modify its small-business recycling program, shifting many participants to self-service and larger roll-off containers for schools to reduce contamination and operating cost.
Warrick County Solid Waste Management District Board members voted unanimously Aug. 21 to modify the district’s small-business recycling program, shifting many participants to self-service collection and replacing some school collection points with 30-yard roll-off containers.
The change aims to reduce contamination and lower operating costs for a program that district staff said serves about 70 small businesses and costs roughly $36,860 a year. "This program is costing us $36,860 a year, roughly," Reagan (surname not provided), a district staff member who presented the proposal, told the board.
Reagan said program revenues are small — "The approximate revenues generated off that is around 8,400" if everything were recycled — and contamination rates run high, often 30%–40%. She showed board members a sample bin that weighed 440 pounds, which…
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