–Times Free Press, DUNLAP, Tennessee–

A $22,000 cardboard compactor is the latest improvement in Sequatchie County’s growing recycling program. The new compactor already has kept 1,600 pounds of cardboard out of the landfill since it was installed a couple of weeks ago at the Southend Recycling Center, County Executive Michael Hudson said. The center is next door to the John Griswold Recreational Complex. “We have one cardboard recycling container at the county’s site in the city (on Main Street). This adds an additional cardboard compactor for the county,” he said.  The county’s cost was reimbursed by a $22,000 grant through the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, records show. Recycling means real savings in landfill costs, said County Commissioner David Cartwright, who serves a district in south Sequatchie County. “Garbage is nothing but cost,” he said. Sequatchie garbage goes to Marion County, which charges a per-ton fee, he said. The compactor generates a little revenue and keeps cardboard out of the landfill, he said. “That’s a plus.”

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