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temative: buying the property themselves and subdividing and reselling it.
Mrs. Early replied that she believed that the supervisors have a contingency contract on the property already.
Mrs. Aldi Holdman told the audience that recycling is the answer, “so that we won’t need a landfill. . . how many of you,” she asked, “are against the landfill enough to change your ways. If you don’t buy the pesticides to kill the bugs and then throw the containers away, you won’t have to worry about the stuff in the landfill.”
She suggested that the highway department be consulted about the possibility of establishing a recycling station on Rt. 211, so that people could deposit items for recycling on their way to work. “Why,” she added, “if we buy stuff from the stores, shouldn’t the manufacturers be responsible and dispose of it? That would make the landfill less necessary.”
“There are a lot of intelligent people here. I’ve only given it a housewife’s thought,” she concluded.
“We’ve presented that idea to the supervisors, and they don’t want recycling,” Mrs. Early replied. “We’ve tried - we had a session with them - and we got a firm ‘No’.”
“That takes a long time,” another member of the audience observed. “We’re looking at the situation now.”
Col. Bingham agreed. “It’s very viable in the long range. But we’re fighting a July 1 deadline. There’s no way we can get it going in that short time.”
“That’s true,” Mrs. Holdman replied.
A1 Henry asked to address the meeting to advise them of the latest development at the supervisors’ work session, also held Thursday night. He told the group that, by a 30 margin, with himself and Hampton District supervisor Newbill Miller abstaining, the board voted to sign a
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