Hardin County on average collects more than 50 tons of recyclable materials a month from the seven trailers set up around the county, proving the trailers are put to good use.
Hardin County Solid Waste Coordinator Stepanie Givens, however, says citizens must do more to ensure the recycling program is able to continue.
“If it is overflowing and it is falling out of the trailer, when we do go to clean that up, anything that is touching concrete on the outside of the trailer ends up at the landfill anyway, so all of that energy and effort you put in to do in the right thing, if that’s what your plan was, it still ended up at the landfill,” Givens said.
People not using the trailers properly has resulted in overflowing trailers, and if more people do not adhere to the guidelines the county risks losing the program. Efficiency is also important in order to make things easier for the Meade County Recycling Center, which is where Hardin County’s recyclables are processed.
“That recycle center can only process as fast as they can get them emptied and get them back to us, so the problem is if I take them over there and they’re already emptying out two or three of our trailers, they still can’t get to the third one or fourth one until they get something emptied,” Givens said..
Visit the Recycling page on the Hardin County government website for more information. Givens also encourages anybody with questions to contact her directly.
