Locals bring back recycling in Redfield

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Locals bring back recycling in Redfield

By Shiloh Appel

    As of the first meeting of the new “Redfield Recycles” program on Monday, July 22nd, recycling in Redfield has become a reality once again. Jordann Hansen and LeAnn Wasmoen are heading up the program with the help of local volunteers, including young volunteers such as sixth grader Evan Schultz, who wrote a letter to Mayor Jayme Akin over the summer about bringing back recycling. Schultz has since attended two of the Redfield Recycles meetings which are held at City Hall once a month.

    “We started doing recycling more in the school,” said Wasmoen. “Then we thought, ‘there are more people out there that are interested,’ so we tried to gather more information in the community to see who does it, and Jordann developed a brochure [about recycling options in Redfield].”

    Hansen recently set up recycling baskets at Redfield’s City Hall where various household items can be recycled.  Batteries, pop tabs, plastic screw-on lids (from plastic pop bottles, detergent bottles, milk jugs, mayonnaise jars, etc.), any brand or style of markers, plastic grocery bags, ink jet and laser printer cartridges, used cell phones, hearing aides, glasses, used toothpaste tubes, floss containers, and Redfield Food Center receipts from September 1, 2019- March 31, 2020 can all be brought in to City Hall to be recycled. Aluminum cans can be recycled in the Lion’s Club aluminum can bank outside of City Hall and  cardboard and fiber board can be recycled in the white shed located just west of Main Street between City Hall and the fire station. Other things that can be recycled by taking a trip to Dependable Sanitation in Aberdeen include plastic jugs with the numbers 1 and 2 on them (rinsed out without the lids), newspapers and magazines, and tin cans (rinsed) without lids or paper. Dependable Sanitation is located at 1520 390 Avenue in Aberdeen and is open from 8a.m. to 5p.m. Monday through Friday and Saturday from 8 to noon.

   “We would like more volunteers,” said Wasmoen. “The ultimate goal is to bring in more of the community recycling option. If we had waste management come in, they would offer recycling for a fee. …We would like to bring a company into Redfield to do that. …That is looking at the long term [goal], but, immediately, we are just trying to get the word out about recycling.”

    Starting in August, Redfield Recycling has been offering a drawing for locals to have a chance to win a small prize at the end of each month. Those who bring in items to be recycled can enter their names into the drawing at City Hall each time they bring in an item. August’s small prize was two reusable “Pheasant Capitol of the World” bags won by Paige Robinson. This month, the small prize is a free Dilly Bar from the Redfield Dairy Queen.

For more information about recycling options in Redfield, or to volunteer, visit the Redfield Recycles Facebook page, “Redfield Recyles”, or call Hansen at 605-450-0586.