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Macon's Public Works Director says the city may expand it's recycling program to avoid fines for violating state landfill regulations.
Now, some environmental activists at Mercer University say they're happy to hear there may be more options for cleaning up and cutting waste in the city.
Members of the school's Students For Environmental Action club say they work to get folks on campus in the habit of reusing and recycling, but that can be a tricky job.
"We've had many passionate students get things going, and then they graduate," club advisor and Mercer professor Heather Bowman Cutway said.
Many of the recylcing efforts on campus were inspired by students. The school's paper recycling program is still running, but club president Collin Douglas says other efforts have faded. He thinks a centralized system would provide the incentive needed to keep programs going.
Public Works Director Richard Powell says the city's preparing to send a proposal to Georgia's Department of Natural Resources, to bring the Single Stream recycling program to more Macon neighborhoods. Now, the program provides each Intown and Downtown household with a 65-gallon cart for recycling materials.
"Anything the city can do to make it easier is going to give the impression that we are a forward thinking city, not a backward thinking city," Bowman Cutway said.
Powell says the city will submit the application by the end of the week.
