Cabell County, West Virginia, considers recycling levy
Cabell County, West Virginia, considers recycling levy
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According to an article by the Herald Dispatch, Huntington, West Virginia, members of the Cabell County Solid Waste Authority plan to ask the county commission to allow residents to vote in a referendum Nov. 8, 2016, for a levy to support the county’s recycling program.
Board members proposed a levy rate of one-third of a cent for every $100 of assessed value on a property, which would provide $318,985 annually to support the recycling program, the article says.
“This levy would establish a baseline where we could establish a recycling program that was independent of the market value of recyclables,” Authority Board President Stephen Zoeller told the Herald-Dispatch. “The problem with recycling and a lot of other programs like this is governments consider it a marginal activity, so you’re always underfunded. We could sustain this program indefinitely as long as the levy was in place.”
Cabell County began the program in 2011 with eight drop-off locations, three of which were shut down on June 30 when the authority lost funding from the Cabell County Commission and the city of Milton. Four of the remaining locations will remain in commission until the end of December. The final bin is in Barboursville.
Additionally, the county’s recycler, Cincinnati-headquartered Rumpke Recycling, increased its annual collection charge from $40,000 to more than $80,000.
“If the levy doesn’t pass, those bins will be pulled in December, and we will have no recycling and no prospect of recycling,” Zoller told the newspaper. “Barboursville would have to negotiate with Rumpke for their recycling.”
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Source: Recycling Today
Cabell County, West Virginia, considers recycling levy
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