Recycling plan makes progress

BY Robert Wang
The Canton Repository

BOLIVAR - The local waste district is on the verge of approving a long-delayed recycling plan that would reward communities that recycle more and penalize communities that recycle less.

Under the plan, the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Joint Solid Waste Management District would continue to fund local recycling programs at current levels, plus inflation, for two years, said Andrew Booker, a supervisor for the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, which negotiated the plan with the district....Read more.