County commissioners have agreed to
close the recycling center in Lanark Village temporarily because of illegal
dumping there.
Commissioners
said that people have been using the site to dump household trash and worse,
and that’s leading to problems with wild animals foraging the site for food.
Lanark
Village resident Barbara Roehr said there are also problems with the smell –
and it just makes the community look bad.
Commissioners
said people even come from Wakulla County to throw trash there.
Commissioners
voted to close the Lanark Village recycling site indefinitely while the solid
waste department figures out how to deal with the problem.
They
have discussed installing cameras at the site.
Commissioners
have also discussed mandatory garbage pickup around the county – but have not
yet taken any action on that proposal.
Even
with the Lanark Village recycling area closed, there are still a number of
locations where people can recycle in Franklin County.
Franklin County residents
can recycle cardboard, newspaper, plastic, aluminum, tin & glass at Vrooman
Park in Eastpoint; in Alligator Point the recycling bins are on Bald point
Road.
There are also recycling
bins at St. James Bay.
In Carrabelle you can
recycle at Gray Avenue at the old Carrabelle High School; on St. George Island
the recycling bins are behind Harry A’s and in Apalachicola the recycling
location is on Commerce Street.
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