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9/16/1996
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Fla. county recruits curbside help <br /> <br /> By Michael Pelfier <br /> <br />INVERNESS. FL~. -- Citrus County, <br />Fla., officials are phasing out <br />their curbside program to save <br />costs and expand service to the <br />county's 100,000 residents, with <br />the help of volunteers. <br /> Solid-waste officials have set <br />up five neighborhood drop sites <br />around the county since April. <br />When the project is complete, or- <br />ganizers plan to have 20 drop <br />sites scattered throughout the <br />county. <br /> According to the plan, church- <br />es, nonprofit organizations and <br /> <br />won't work, according to Frank <br />Wentzel, county recycling coordi- <br />nator. <br /> "We're educating folks about <br />the new program," he said. <br />"Some of our residents were <br />used to a curbside program. For <br />others, it's a new service." <br /> So far, civic groups in four cit- <br />ies and two fraternal organiza- <br />tions have stepped forward to <br />sponsor sites. The Inverness <br />Highlands South & West Civic <br />Association has been maintain- <br />ing a recycling site for about a <br />month. The center collects alu- <br /> <br />minum and steel cans, glass, <br />newsprint, polyethylene teraph- <br />thalate and high-density poly- <br />ethylene. <br /> Organization leaders said they <br />hope to break even on the sale of <br />recyclables but are undertaking <br />the project as a community ser- <br />vice. <br /> "At our regular meeting, some <br />people said it was too much <br />trouble, we should let the gov- <br />ernment handle it," said associa- <br />tion spokesman Lee Cloward. <br />"But I told them sometimes it's <br />very necessary for us to get in- <br /> <br />volved personally." <br /> Citrus County now spends <br />about $300,000 per year on its <br />curbside program but reaches <br />only 15,000 households through- <br />out the county. Much of that <br />funding came from a $27 million <br />state grant program established <br />to encourage recycling and boost <br />the statewide recycling rate to <br />30 percent. <br /> State solid-waste officials re- <br />ported in January that Florida <br />reached the 30-percent goal. <br />Lawmakers this spring tried to <br />divert the grant program for <br /> <br />other causes, but a last-minute <br />intervention by Democratic Gov. <br />Lawton Chiles saved the pro- <br />gram for another year. <br /> Still, it appears state recycling <br />grants are doomed, and the <br />county cannot afford to continue <br />the curbside program, said Sus- <br />an Metcalfe, solid-waste director <br />for Citrus County. <br /> "We have to design a program <br />that is sustainable into the fu- <br />ture,'' Metca]fe said. "We're not <br />going to be able to afford to do <br />things the way we're doing them <br />now." · <br /> <br />service groups will sponsor and <br />maintain each site. <br /> In exchange, proceeds from <br />the sale of recyclables will be <br />given to the sponsoring organi- <br />zation. <br /> Citrus Recycling Co., a local <br />recycler, receives $57 per con- <br />tainer to pick up the material. <br />The company writes the county <br />a check for the recyclables, <br />based on price quotes in nation- <br />al publications. The county then <br />sends the money to the sponsor- <br />ing group. <br /> The program is expanding de- <br />spite the skepticism of a small <br />minority of residents who said a <br />voluntary neighborhood system <br /> <br /> End <br />;amc <br /> <br />K-PAC AUTO TARPER <br /> <br /> <br />
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