Recycling effort picks up steam

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August 7, 2019 - 10:33 AM

Steve Strickler, right, speaks at Tuesday's Allen County Commission meeting. Also attending is Sheriff Bryan Murphy.

Steve Strickler told Allen County Commissioners on Tuesday morning that he has received a much better response than he anticipated for his recycling project.

“I just want to thank you guys for the investment in the dumpsters. They filled up rather quickly. In fact we have two semi trailers filled with cardboard and we are trying to figure out what we are going to do with it all,” Strickler said. “We do need a baler. If things were going well in the dairy business, I would purchase one myself.”

Strickler said a cardboard baler would cost anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000.

“Just to give you an idea of the difference between the weights of baled loads of cardboard and a load that is not. I took the first load to International Paper in Wichita and we got $65. The second time we had a better understanding of how to sort the stuff and we got $517,” Strickler said.

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