Recycling Green
The people have become used to throw the cans, papers and plastic without even worrying about its recycling. Now the government is stepping forward to take steps to tackle this critical issue. State’s Integrated Waste Management Board is issuing directives to apartments, commercial establishments, public areas and business organizations to work for the same. It is planning to launch a program to fight against this issue by setting some short term and long term goals and acting according to them. The board is aiming at the flexibility of the program in order to invite suggestions in the future.
Selecting a site for the execution of this plan is a significant part. It entirely depends on the type of the recycling equipment and the planned capacity of that particular recycling plant. A draft is expected to be issued during this year and the board expects the execution of the plan by the beginning of 2012. Although the proposed project might not bring drastic changes into the city of San Diego as it is already facilitated with many such recycling plants. This prompted San Diego’s waste reduction manager, Stephen Grealy to state that he would be stormed if he finds the government coming up with an act to affirm this proposal.
The proposed idea requires a high level of commitment from the people of San Diego to make it a success. The people should be willing to provide their bins to facilitate the recycling program. Board would form few volunteered communities to help the work move without any check. And fortunately, the people of San Diego are very receptive regarding all the recycling work.
Many agencies are already working for the tasks of collection of waste and dumping it at the plant. This encourages the Integrated Waste Management Board to start few more similar projects. Acquiring ample funds is the most difficult part of this project. Its success requires educating people, which is an expensive endeavor.
The Integrated Waste Management Board has estimated that the apartments, commercial establishments, large businesses and other sources of San Diego dump about 5.5 million tons of recyclable waste every year. And even half of it made to recycle, and then the reduction in greenhouse gas discharges will be tantamount to scraping off about 1 million vehicles from the road.
With the increase in the waste gathered by all the parts of the society, it has become very important to increase the city’s recycling capacity to further extent.
