ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Sunday, January 14, 1996               TAG: 9601150008
SECTION: CURRENT                  PAGE: NRV8 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
DATELINE: WYTHEVILLE 

RECYCLING CENTER MOVES TO NEW SITE

Wytheville has moved its town recycling center from the Wythe Plaza Shopping Center to a space on West Monroe Street between the Wythe County Jail and Withers Park.

Recyclable wastes such as plastics, metals, glass and newspapers can be brought there three times a week, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.

Townspeople must now pay $1 for each 32-gallon bag of solid waste picked up by weekly municipal waste haulers, or 50 cents for a 13-gallon bag. The charges were started because of the rising costs of waste disposal.

Payment is made by buying the appropriate tags from the town and attaching them to the bags when they are placed by curbs for pickup. They are also available at Duck's Grocery, Kincer-Miller Hardware, Dillon's IGA and Acme Supermarket, as well as from a coin dispenser machine by the main entrance to the Wytheville Municipal Building.

One result has been a surge in the amount of trash being dumped in the metal green boxes in Wythe County, but even that is only a temporary respite for town residents trying to avoid the pickup charges that became effective this year. The county containers will be removed at some point.

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ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO:   1. PAUL DELLINGER/Staff The new Wytheville Recycling 
          Center is on West Monroe  Street between the Wythe County Jail and 
          Withers Park.
          2. Trash bins have been filled past overflowing at sites in Wythe 
          County.