TURNING GREEN
TOWN
ONE RECYCLE BIN AT A TIME THE
story by Margaret Ann Michels • photography by Jason Bennett
Below: Fisher supplies its clients with indoor and outdoor recycle bins as needed. Right: Bundles of metal and cardboard recyclables. Far right: Charleston County’s seven recycling convenience centers accept electronics such as radios, computers, televisions and VCRs.
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OU HAVE TO TAKE THE CAPS OFF WATER bottles before you can recycle them. Cereal boxes can’t be recycled. Tey don’t take junk mail envelopes with plastic windows, and they won’t accept magazines. Tese are just some of the misconceptions about recy- cling. If you think women have “come a long way, baby,” recycling has come a lot further in the past 20 years.
After reading this article, if you are not just a little inspired to stop buy- ing individual serving sizes of water only to toss the empties in the garbage where they will be transported to the landfill and remain forever as man- made, petroleum-based non-biodegradable waste, you might want to keep it to yourself. Most people now agree they don’t want to live in a world surrounded by evidence of our past irresponsible lifestyle. Mount Pleasant’s residential recycling program is part of the Charleston County environmental management system. Carolyn Carusos, the county’s recy- cling programs manager, explained that the County Council is trying to increase our collective recycling efforts to reduce the strain on the landfill. Teir goal is to reach the 40-percent level, up from 22 percent, the starting point last year. And Carusos and her office are tasked with figuring out how a “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” mantra will get us there. Any material put somewhere other than the landfill will help; reducing the amount of materials we use is the first step.
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