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County could offer recycling for businesses

Published 01/25/08

Small businesses that struggle to pay private contractors for recycling pickups could soon have a new option: curbside collection by the county.

By COLLEEN DUGAN, The Capital Students from Shipley's Choice Elementary and Lothian Elementary decorated dumpster-sized recycling bins that will be put in parks this spring. They are now being stored at the Millersville Landfill until the season comes around.
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The County Council will consider a bill that would establish a voluntary recycling program for businesses. Participants would have to pay for the service, but the intention is to make it more affordable than hiring a private recycling hauler.

 

County Executive John R. Leopold submitted the bill to the County Council in hopes of getting more businesses to recycle.

"I've noticed that still there's far too many examples of not separating the trash from the...

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