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Recycling in Henderson County

Will Recycling Come to Apple Fest
Hendersonville Times-News - Aug. 19 ... The 200,000 or so visitors who pack downtown Hendersonville over the four days of the N.C. Apple Festival generate a lot of trash. So some local folks are wondering, why not offer recycling?

"The Global Warming Task Force is pretty concerned that literally thousands of pounds of plastic bottles and aluminum cans that could be recycled aren't ... Continued

Thanks to Rebecca Booher & Carole Rapici for this great article about Recycling ...
Emptying the Landfills, One Product at a Time

Recycling and reuse businesses now employ about as many people as the auto industry if not more, according to a 2001 "U.S. Recycling Economic Information Study" commissioned by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and several states through an agreement with the National Recycling Coalition ... Continued PDF