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Jackie Jergens
Recycling in Nevada
SCI/362
Amina Sadik
August 20, 2003
According to research done at Las Vegas Mercury fewer residents in the Las Vegas valley are recycling than three years ago. Only about eight percent of residents recycle meaning Clark County is one of the lowest in recycling rates. The county does have a meager goal of twenty-five percent of residents to begin recycling. One of the chief reasons
Recycling in Clark County is so low is because curbside recycling is more expensive then just putting the trash in a landfill. ... Nevada was advised to recycle at least twenty-five percent of its residential and commercial waste by 1995. Nevada failed miserably. A national magazine even ranked Nevada as one of the five worst states in regards to recycling. It has been said the reasons for poor recycling in Nevada is no one cares. ... com) they have to pay to have their recyclables picked up and for use of the recycling bins. Recycling in the state of Nevada is considered to be more of a personal problem rather than an environmental one. ... Politicians have no real intentions of even promoting recycling to help residents understand the importance of recycling.
Republic President Steve Kalish stated “The problem is that recycling programs become a fad. There is never going to be a drive for recycling in Nevada. The big impact that drives recycling is high disposal costs, and we don’t have them in Nevada and we never have had them”. ...
It has been shown that Las Vegas resorts have done their fair share of recycling. According to the Nevada Recycler Association about seventy-five percent of the major hotels recycle. ... Most of the hotels material is picked up by Republic Services of Southern Nevada and Waste Management Incorporated, a subsidiary of R.
Approximate Word count = 1422
Approximate Pages = 5.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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