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Single-Stream, Will
Take More Materials
Keeping trash out of the landfill just got
easier in Athens-Clarke County with "single
stream" recycling. Instead of requiring cus
tomers to sort paper from cans and bottles,
the county is now doing the sorting, so every
thing (except trash) can go into the same
container. That makes pickups more efficient,
says Suki Janssen, ACC's recycling coordinator,
who expects customers to recycle more, too.
"I think it'll increase tonnage [of recyclables]
by 20 percent to 25 percent," Janssen told
Flagpole. The county will begin replacing
recycle bins with larger recycling rollcarts for
customers who want them.
Most of the sorting is done by machine
at the county's recycling facility off Olympic
Drive, but the final sorting of plastics is done
by hand. Along with the switch to single
stream, the facility now has storage space
for additional types of plastics—-so now most
items other than Styrofoam (#6 plastic) can
be recycled (plastic bags, plates and cut
lery, paper cups and shredded paper are not
accepted). Rigid plastics (toys, buckets, bins)
can also be included for single-stream pickup.
Grease, scrap metal, tires and electronics can
be dropped off for recycling; see www.athen-
sclarkecounty.com for details on how.
Depending on material prices, ACC usually
makes money on recycling—$308,000 last
year over sorting costs—but the main reason
county commissioners have set ambitious
recycling goals is to reduce the amount of
material going into the landfill. Landfills are
politically unpopular; a multi-county effort to
site a new one was abandoned because none
of the counties involved was willing to host
it, so ACC is expanding its Lexington Road
landfill despite an earlier agreement with
nearby neighbors that it never would. Seeing
the landfill as a necessary evil, commissioners
have set a goal of reducing landfill tonnage
by 75 percent over 10 years, and since a big
part of what goes into the landfill can be
recycled, that means increasing recycling is a
top priority.
No one is required to recycle, but the
county government (which regulates private
waste haulers as well as providing intown
trash pickup) does all it can to encourage it.
Recycling is available at no charge to all trash
customers—meaning trash bills can be lower
if customers recycle—and 11 drop-off recy
cling dumpsters can be used by anyone (even
non-ACC residents). Sewage sludge once went
into the landfill, but now ACC composts it
with ground-up leaf and limb material to pro
duce a rich landscaping mulch that's sold at
the landfill. It's been "'lying off the shelves"
at $20 per pickup load, Janssen says. These
recycling efforts produced a "diversion rate"
of 35 percent last year: material that might
have gone into the landfill, but was recycled
instead.
But can the county really reach its goal of
75 percent recycling? "We will get there, but
we're going to have to provide some serious
composting infrastructure," Janssen said: pick
ing up food scraps from schools, restaurants,
even from homes. Food scraps account for
as much as a quarter of landfill trash. "We're
going to have to get those organics out of
the landfill to make that 75 percent," she
said. "It's the hardest thing to pick up, but
we certainly wouldn't be the first community
doing it in the country. We might be the first
in Georgia."
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