A Dickinson County Supervisor Says It’s Time To Re-Visit Recycling
A Dickinson County Supervisor Says It’s Time To Re-Visit Recycling
February 16, 2022Steve Schwaller
(Spirit Lake)– A Dickinson county supervisor says it’s time to revisit recycling in Dickinson County. Kim Wermersen told fellow board members Tuesday he and a staff member of the Dickinson County Recycling Center met recently with a consultant regarding some of the issues with recycling in Dickinson county…
“The direction we’re going is a tailspin in my opinion. We have some sites set up but it’s not a solution. And so we talked at some length about a lot of different ways we could maybe look at recycling. I’m going to start those conversations with each city and see really what their direction is. We have to identify that we have an issue here with recycling. Because here’s the challenge, right? We have curbside in Spirit Lake but we still have apartment complexes where they don’t know to go with their recycling. So guess where it ends up? In one of our five sites which overloads those sites.”
Wermersen says some of the conversation will also involve talking about additional funding that would be needed to revamp the recycling efforts…
“There’s a taxation that could be put on, a sales tax that we could have one source like whether it be the county or whomever that would take over that particular thing. I think the real dilemma that this outfit thought we had is that we’ve got the cities, we’ve got the county, we’re subsidizing but that’s not really making a difference for those areas that don’t have opportunities for recycling or don’t know where to recycle.”
Dickinson county has been reimbursing some cities that have drop-off recycling sites in exchange for allowing people in unincorporated areas of the county to use those facilities.
