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Mayor Coleman and other city and community leaders unveiled their recommendations for a comprehensive curbside recycling program today. The program was put together utilizing information gathered from a recent community survey to gauge public opinion on various types of recycling options.
The proposed plan calls for an alternating bi-weekly rotation between yard waste collection and recycling collection. The proposed recycling bin would be a 65-gallon cart, slightly smaller than the standard 90-gallon trash cart currently used for residential households. Recycling waste collection would include paper, plastic, glass, and metal.
“I want to commend our residents for taking the time to give us the feedback we need to put together a true comprehensive curbside recycling program for 2012,” Mayor Coleman said during today’s announcement event. “In the meantime I ask our residents to recycle today through our voluntary subscription program or our drop-box program.”
An additional community briefing on the new recycling proposal will take place at City Hall tonight at 5:30pm. Details on that event can be found HERE.
More information can be found online at RecycleColumbus.org.
Thank goodness! I subscribe to Rumpke but I think there are only two of us in our neighborhood who do. Hopefully people will step up and recycle when they don’t have to pay extra.
Hey Walker,
Have you spoken with Liz Lessner at all about her venture with Mike Minnix, Eartha Limited about the composting? I just read it in The Other Paper. That would be great to get the word out :)
Liz rocks the house!
Yeah, we’ve chatted about it. Will be doing a feature on it when it’s closer to launch. Sounds like they’ve still got some work to do before the ball gets officially rolling. ;)
I hope to make it to a community feedback meeting, wondering if there will be others since I missed the July 28 gathering. I wish they would let people choose between the 65 gal and the 35 gal version. Even with every other week, a 65 gal of recyclables is huge. I think it’s overkill to provide the giant size for everyone, when it is only a small population that would actually fill that whole bin every 2 weeks.
Jody, the same could be said about about the large trash containers too. We rarely fill ours more than halfway full in a week. I’d opt for a smaller one of those if I could.
Finally a step in the right direction, but there is no way I could store a 65 gallon container along with the 90 gallon I currently have for trash. Right now, we take paper to a fund raising bin at our church every other week and drop off cans, glass and plastic at the bins in a grocery store parking lot about every two to three weeks. The 65 gallon container is not the right size for most families in my opinion.