Seneca SC Gets Honored for Recycling
SENECA – The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control honored Seneca recently for having the most outstanding municipal waste reduction and recycling programs in the state.
Seneca was recognized in the category of municipalities with less than 20,000 people.
“Our recycling program is not mandatory, it’s voluntary,” said Mayor Dan Alexander. “We asked people in our community to take part and try to help. This award speaks well of our residents’ and businesses’ willingness to take part in our recycling program. I’m so proud of all the hard work by the city staff that went into receiving this award.”
In the past year, 44 percent of the solid waste collected by the city was recycled. Also the city recycles approximately one ton of cardboard each day.
“I think it speaks well of the residents and businesses, because they take time out of their day to sort and separate things simply because it’s the right thing to do,” said Mark Krabbe, sanitation, recycling, motor pool, and streets director for Seneca.
Seven employees work in the city’s sanitation and recycling department. Seneca is running daily residential collection routes providing curbside collection for garbage and recycling.
“This is a great award, and it shows how the community pulls together to do the right thing by reducing the garbage in the landfill,” said city administrator Greg Dietterick. “But I can’t say enough great things about our folks over at the recycling department and what they do every day that we take for granted. We can’t do that, because they do so much for this community and keep our standard of living up so well. We’re very proud of what they do, and they deserve congratulations.”
Krabbe said, “We recycle cardboard, plastic, paper and mixed paper. We separate it. We take a recycling truck and drive through the streets. As we pick up garbage, we also recycle. We separate it on our truck and then deliver it to the county landfill. The county processes it and sells it. That helps cover some of the cost of solid waste in the whole county.”
Seneca is part of Oconee County’s solid waste plan, and Krabbe said the county deserves a lot of credit for making this award possible.
“We work closely with the county and they play a big part in our ability to provide the services that we have,” Krabbe said. “The other cities in Oconee County also have excellent recycling programs. We all work closely together and provide back-up to each other when needed.”
He also said, “Recycling will save us some space in our landfill and makes the landfill last longer and these items get reused, we recycle them, they get reprocessed, and they get reused.”
The state’s annual awards program allows the health department to recognize the top recycling programs and projects, as well as to thank people who work hard to make recycling a success in South Carolina.
By: Chad Dorsett/WSNW AM-1150/Special to the Independent-Mail
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