Jackson Free Press

The City of Jackson is reminding all those gardeners that free mulch will be available to City of Jackson residents for their home or business beginning January 20, 2004. Residents may pick up mulch at the city's Park Maintenance facility located at 4503 South Drive anytime between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday-Saturday. Residents must bring their own tools and containers for the mulch. For more information, please call Park Maintenance at 960-1840.

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City of Jackson Expanding Curbside Recycling to Entire City

The City of Jackson's Solid Waste Division announced today that curbside recycling would be expanded to accommodate the entire city of Jackson by February 2, 2004. Currently, approximately 65% of households are offered this service.

"We see this as a very positive amenity," said Mayor Johnson. "Recycling items such as newspapers, aluminum and steel cans, plastic milk jugs, and plastic soft drink bottles saves valuable landfill space and significantly aids in protecting our environment."

Bins will be distributed to those homes not previously included in the curbside program beginning on January 20, 2004. "It will take two weeks to distribute the bins to all the households," said Solid Waste Division Manager Sonya Bohannon. "Once we have the bins distributed, the recycling service will begin on February 2, 2004 and recyclables will be picked up on one of the days household trash is picked up each week."

The expansion of the recycling program will not bring a rate increase for any of the customers.

Residents are asked to place only those items accepted in the recycling program (newspapers, aluminum and steel cans, plastic milk jugs and plastic soft drink bottles) in the bins. All cans, jugs and bottles should be empty.

"We certainly hope that everyone will take advantage of this service," said Sonya Bohannon. "So much of what we use every day can be recycled, and it makes sense that we would expand this program to all households."

Previous Comments

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168253

Comment

Would a deposit ordinance work? Maybe 5 cents per bottle or container? That would certainly help clean up the city! That's 30 cents per six pack of whatever. Sure it'd be expensive for the city, but I think taking a HUGE chunk out of the litter problem would be worth it.

Author

Philip

Date

2004-01-24T11:49:40-06:00