Curbside recycling

Spanish Fork, Utah is launching a curbside recycling program this June! While this program will cost those that sign up $6-7 per month, the Spanish Fork City website is quick to point out that not recycling also costs us. Since recycling is a program handled by city government it is important to contact your city leaders about instigating a recycling program in your city. Other cities in Utah that currently have a curbside recycling program are: Salt Lake City, South Jordan, Lindon, Saratoga Springs, Highland, American Fork, and Sandy.

Also, check out this site. Citizens of Davis County petitioned for curbside recycling and it was instigated last year!

Advocate for Recycling!

According to the Deseret News in 2008 Utah recycled just 2.7% of the 24 million tons of trash created! But here's the twist, 87% of Utahans participating in a survey conducted by The Utah Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste said that they thought recycling was important. And 89% thought that their cities should have a recycling program. So why with all this support of recycling is Utah only re-using 2.7% of the trash? Because most communities do not make recycling programs easily available!
If we think that recycling is so important then lets tell someone about it. Advocate! Talk to your community leaders, to your neighbors, even to your family. Let people know that recycling is an important issue to you and that something needs to be done to make it accessible to you. According to the survey recycling is important to the majority of Utah residents, so if everyone speaks up how can you be ignored?