FAIRMONT —
A new recycling location at the Wilson Ford car dealership has been working out well, said Bobbi Benson, executive director of the Marion County Solid Waste Authority (MCSWA).
It has been nearly a month since the MCSWA unveiled three new large recycling bins in an area behind the dealership. The bins were purchased with a grant for $102,539.91 through the Rehabilitation Environmental Action Plan (REAP) through the state Department of Environmental Protection, along with a truck with a hook system to empty the bins.
The new purchases give the MCSWA the ability to empty the bins and transport the recycled items to the Monongalia County Solid Waste Authority as needed, therefore helping to avoid overflowing bins that sometimes created trash situations at the MCSWA’s previous White Hall site at the Middletown Mall.
The MCSWA had to move the bins from that site when a construction project took the recycling location. The plan to purchase the new bins already was under way and the recycling officials had to find a new location for them because the plan had been to put them at the Middletown Mall.
Wilson Ford also is the location of another bin provided and emptied by Allied Waste Services that takes the site’s cardboard. It had been at the Middletown Mall. Last weekend, that bin was overflowing and recyclers had begun placing cardboard items on the ground.
“We requested the cardboard be emptied last week and Allied Waste did not do it,” Benson said last week, noting that she was still trying to contact them about the situation.
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