Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, April 19, 1991                   TAG: 9104190510
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: KATHY LOAN NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
DATELINE: RADFORD                                LENGTH: Medium

LANDFILL GETTING 25% LESS TRASH; HIGHER RATES, VOLVO STRIKE CITED

Charles Maus, the authority's executive director, said trash dumping was 25 percent lower during the first quarter of this year than the same period of 1990, He attributed much of the decrease to the valley's economy and higher rates for use of the landfill.

Fred Hilliard, the authority's program director for community education and recycling projects, said the strike at Volvo GM Heavy Truck Corp. was a big reason for a 68 percent decrease in the number of pallets brought to the landfill.

There also was a 78 percent drop in brush, 33 percent less general debris and 8 percent less municipal waste, Hilliard said.

Officials hope the volume of garbage going into the landfill continues to shrink as more recycling bins are set up in the Pulaski County-Radford area.

The authority has put bins at Kroger in Pulaski and Wades in Dublin. A third bin was installed at the Fairlawn Kroger store on Thursday. Hilliard said a fourth bin may be put in Radford.

The authority has designed leaflets - printed on recycled paper - with tips for preparing and identifying recyclable items to be dropped at the bins.

Also at Wednesday's meeting, the authority was told the application for a permanent landfill in Pulaski County has been delivered to the state Department of Waste Management in Richmond. Consultant Bob Roberts of Olver Inc. said he expects to receive the state's first comments on the proposal by next week, and the authority could have a permit to build the landfill by December.

Roberts suggested an August 1993 construction start on property owned by Richard Matson near Dublin off Virginia 627.