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Public Information Meeting Scheduled For Wednesday To Discuss Streamlining Area Recycling

The West Central Iowa Solid Waste Management Association has been researching making a change to their current recycling program. Director, Mary Wittry, explains their two-stream recycling process that now serves the cities and rural areas of Carroll, Crawford, Guthrie and Shelby Counties as well as parts of Calhoun County.

The recycling is then brought to the Carroll Recycling Center and taken to two separate buildings. The Carroll County Solid Waste Management Commission with the Association members hired Foth Infrastructure and Environment, LLC. to complete a study on the pros and cons of converting the type of recycling.

She says it will become a much easier process at that point.

Wittry says the biggest benefit of single-stream processing is that the ease will result in more participation in the recycling program. There will be a public meeting at 5 p.m. at the Carrollton Centre in Carroll Wednesday, Nov. 29 on this conversion. Wittry adds that there will be no decisions made at this meeting, it is purely informational. From that point, the executive board will decide which way they want to go. If the change is approved, it would take from one and a half to two years to transition the system.

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