![]() The site now serves only as a transfer point between the Recycle Ann Arbor trucks that collect recyclables and its semitrucks that haul them to Cincinnati for processing. But citing safety issues, the city closed the MRF in 2016 and fired the private company that operated it. Pratt emails that representatives “are attending Board, Council and Committee meetings in January and February” to explain and seek support for the project.įor more than twenty years, Ann Arbor’s Materials Recovery Facility on Ellsworth processed recyclables from the city and other municipalities. ![]() Tentatively called the Washtenaw Resource Recovery Management Authority, it’s also looking at ways to save money on trash hauling and increase composting. “The national average is 30 percent.”Ĭounty water resource commissioner Evan Pratt is coordinating the effort with representatives from Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Saline, and Dexter, plus Ypsilanti, Pittsfield, Scio, and Ann Arbor townships. Ann Arbor was a pioneer in civic efforts to keep reusable materials out of landfills, but “the latest statistic is at an embarrassingly low 29 percent recovery rate,” he says. “We’ve stagnated as a community,” Weinert says. ![]() None too soon, says Bryan Weinert, director of strategy for Recycle Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor and nearby communities are moving ahead on plans to create a shared recycling system. ![]()
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