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By LISA G. CURRIE
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
October is Recycling Month.
Rappahannock County Litter and Recycling Coordinator Nina Stamer wants to get the word out. “It’s time we educate people on recycling,” Mrs. Stamer said, adding that getting the word out begins in the classrooms but extends into the community through civic groups and private organizations.
“We have so much garbage,” Mrs. Stamer said, explaining that once things were recycled as a way of life. “People used cloths instead of paper towels, there were no cans and glass was a valuable commodity. Now, everything is so disposable.
“Our landfills are filling faster than we can provide new,” she said, adding that recycling items was one way to help alleviate the litter problem though with mass packaging and disposable products there remains no single way to solve the problem of too much garbage.
Since Mrs. Stamer took the part-time position in March 1988 as county litter and recycling coordinator, paid for through a grant established by the Virginia Department of Waste Management, she has worked to establish a well-advertised and working recycling program through five community recycling days and through educative presentations before groups and school children.
“Every community must meet a certain quota for recycling,” Mrs. Stamer said of the mandate handed down in 1988 by the General Assembly stating that each community have a coordinator and a viable recycling program.
The county provided a location for a recycling center at the
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