City striving to GO GREEN

Beginning Oct. 4, approximately 90 families in the city will participate in a curbside recycling program through the end of December.

Many people use the recycling center on a regular basis, but others don’t always have time to make that weekly or biweekly trip. Curbside makes it easy to recycle and to reduce the amount of solid waste going into our landfill.

With this pilot project, now being offered to residents of College Street and The Villages, services will run every other week in partnership with Mauldin’s Trash Service. In cooperation with the Recycling Center, Renee Mauldin, who manages the solid waste for the City of Calhoun, is helping to promote curbside pickup free of charge to recycling customers. The city is paying for the cost of advertising and for the recycling bags.

Customers will sort their recyclables at the curb where the bags will be collected by Mauldin’s and taken to the Materials Recovery Facility beside the Recycling Center. There it will be sorted and processed for sale, proceeds of which will be applied toward the recycling efforts of the city.

According to Recycling Coordinator Judy Peterson, this project will give a true picture of how much material can be diverted from our landfill and how much money can be made from “doing the right thing.”

Peterson would like to thank Renee Mauldin for her help in promoting the project, and she hopes it will make a positive statement to our city that the people of Calhoun care about their environment.