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Recycling routes to change

Posted on September 10, 2009 by Staff

By Beth Mechum
Staff Writer

Ten thousand of the more than 18,000 homes Orange County Recycling provides services for will have their routes changed starting Sept. 14. Those impacted by the route changes will have postcards mailed to them.
In the past eight years, residences serviced for recycling have increased by about 3,500 units.

The route changes are meant to reach Orange County Recycling’s goals of having more efficient and balanced recycling pickup.

Muriel Williman, of Orange County Solid Waste Management, said these changes are long overdue.

“The whole thrust of this re-route was to make it so that the routes were running more efficiently and that we could potentially add, as the communities continue to grow, more customers in an orderly fashion,” Williman said.

And growth is what prompted the changes in the first place.

Rob Taylor, Orange County Recycling’s programs manager, pointed out that in the past decade, neighborhoods such as Southern Village and Meadowmont have added a multitude of pickups for the trucks.

Taylor said things had gotten to the point that, even with 10- and 11-hour workdays, there were days in which no more homes could be serviced.

“Basically, now each of the routes has some buffer and is much more likely to be completed in a reasonable time,” Taylor said.

With new technology to help facilitate the change, Orange County is predicting benefits for patrons, workers and the environment.

“With the help of GPS,” Taylor said, “we can make better changes, like more right turns, easier flow and driving less, but still doing the same amount of work. Now there won’t be multiple trucks going down the same streets, and with less driving there should be less harmful emissions.”

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