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More and more, communities in Virginia are incorporating recycling into their solid waste management scheme. Last month, a statewide group calling itself PURE (People United in Respect for the Environment) organized with the aim of promoting recycling. The Hiwassee Highlands Resource Committee in Pulaski County, where the sole remaining landfill will reach capacity this January, just completed a plan which estimates 90 percent of that area’s regional New River Resource Authority’s solid waste can be recycled, and, reap a profit of $840,000 annually.
Nearby, Fairfax has launched a recycling effort and next door, recycling is working in the towns of Marshall and Middleburg. Williamsburg has just become the first community in the state to institute a city-sponsored mandatory recycling program. Twice a month, city trucks collect recyclables which have been set on the curb in colorcoded bins by the town’s residents.
Even the state has jumped on the recycling wagon, renaming, reorganizing and refocusing its Division of Litter Control into the Division of Recycling and Litter Control and establishing a hotline for information on the location of the nearest recycling centers.
So separate those bottles and cans, put organic waste into the compost pile and bundle those newspapers. And let’s put Rappahannock at the forefront of the recycling effort. It doesn’t take long to establish the recycling habit. If it seems like a lot of work, try remembering that by recycling we save both tax dollars and natural resources.
Certainly, it’s foolish to think recycling can solve all the trash problems we face today. But it is even more foolish to think we can find a solution that doesn’t include recycling as a necessary component.
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