WFHB Bloomington Community Radio
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Why pay someone to haul away our recyclables when we can sell them and keep the money ourselves? That’s one reason the board of the Monroe County Solid Waste Management District voted on Thursday to give its blessing to district director Larry Barker to move forward on a partnership among the city, county, and IU for running a “materials recovery facility”(MRF), where all local recyclables could be packaged for sale on the commodities market. Currently we pay Hoosier Disposal for both trash and recycling, and Hoosier then sells the recycling for their own profit, with only a modest kickback to us. But that contract is up, and it’s now possible to hire another trash service, Rumpke, for trash hauling, and for recycling Barker proposes creating a local facility where we could package our own recycling and sell it on the market ourselves. Larry says over the last few years we’ve given up as much as a million dollars in lost revenue for the convenience of outsourcing our recycling operations. Barker outlines the new plan at the latest district board meeting in this WFHB radio exclusive.
