Recycling (LIGHT)

     The city of Montgomery has signed a deal with a Florida company to built a municipal recycling plant that will supposedly prevent 85-95% of the city's trash from going to the landfill.
     There used to be a curbside recycling program in Montgomery. Residents would separate their metal and paper and plastic and leave the orange bags outside for collection.

    Mayor Todd Strange insists that system was full of holes, that most of what was delivered to the recycling center ended up on the landfill anyway. But the city was facing an $8-Million Dollar deficit in 2009 too, and eliminating the program saved money.

    There's a hole in the new system too. Strange probably got lots of complaints from residents when curbside recycling ended. There may have been a hard-to-measure value for residents who took part. Perhaps they felt like they were contributing to a cleaner city. If there was a problem with the system, perhaps the problem should have been fixed?

     It will be two years or more before the recycling plant begins operating. Till then, residents can still take recycling materials to collection points.