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Every year, manufacturers are forced to reject tons of recycled materials due to contamination. “Contamination,” as it relates to recycling, takes many forms. In addition to unclean food containers — a greasy pizza box or old jar of peanut butter, for example — contamination can come from a seemingly innocent source, such as a “paper” coffee cup, which usually also has thin petroleumbased plastic lining to prevent leaking. Contamination has always been a headache for the Fulton County Solid Waste District employees; however, the problem has been compounded by Kosciusko County’s recent decision to eliminate recycling stations, according to Stacy Hart, FCSWD executive director. The decision partly resulted from “large amounts of trash being dumped at each location.” “We here at FCSWD have seen an increase in the use of some of our drop-off sites and at our facility, which is great. The problems we are running into are that Kosciusko County drop-off sites didn’t require sorting of recyclables, but we do. “We only have so much manpower to operate our facility (as every business does), and would appreciate that everyone take the time to sort their items. This is a free service that we offer and we want to keep it that way for all of our residents,” Hart wrote in a statement on Facebook. Hart was quick to point out that “most of our responsible recyclers do an amazing job, but it is the few people out there that don’t like to follow the rules and Continued on page 3
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