Flagstaff Waste Management promotes recycling – Just Divert It!

Many may not realize it, but Flagstaff Regional Solid Waste Management is a non-profit society, with 12 members which include the 10 towns and villages within the Flagstaff County, including the county itself, and the village of Rosalind.

Formed in the early 80s, the society joined the municipalities together under a flagship project to provide solid waste services from a central location which met provincial and federal environmental standards in a cost-effective manner.

In a manner of speaking, the landfill is owned by all of us.

Now, 30 years later, Flagstaff Waste Manage-ment is focusing on diverting materials from their sanitary landfill in order to increase the effective life of the existing sanitary landfill pits within the facility.

In 2010, approximately 10,330 tones of waste crossed the landfill’s scales, with 52 per cent of that being deposited into the sanitary landfill, and 48 per cent successfully diverted into dry waste, recycling and the burn pit.

According to Doug Munro, who is in charge of educational programming at FRSWM, “It is important to keep as many recyclable materials out of the sanitary landfill as possible, to make it last longer.”

For more, check out the November 15 edition of The Community Press.
Leslie Cholowsky, Editor