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Andrews may consider curbside recycling

The Andrews Town Council discussed the possibility of offering curbside recycling to residents with a Waste Management representative at their meeting on Monday, Nov. 24.

Council President Mike Rohler said there seems to be a public interest in recycling and similar discussions are taking place among municipalities all over Huntington County.

“We’d like more information on it (curbside recycling) because there is still an active participation with the drop-off recycling program here in the community,” Rohler said, “and anything we can of-fer to increase the amount recycled and lessen that going into the landfill would obviously be a win-win for everybody.”

Indication of public interest is based primarily on the community’s response to the drop-off recy-cling program, but according to Rohler, the response is not exactly conclusive to indicating the exact views of the public.

“If they weren’t using that (the public drop-off recycling container), then we could draw the conclu-sion that there either wasn’t a public interest in it (recycling) or that they are only not recycling be-cause we didn’t have it offered curbside,” he said.

With the same reasoning, the public interest in the drop-off recycling program may mean that the community either is content with recycling set up as it is or that they would make use of and appre-ciate a more convenient recycling program.

“It’s definitely something that we are going to need to consider and pursue further,” says Rohler.

Currently, the council is waiting to hear back from others in Huntington County as to what possible next steps or considerations may need to be taken into account.

“We are waiting to hear back from the county recycling group that is trying to get things up and go-ing,” Rohler said. “We also want to wait and see what other communities in Huntington County and the City of Huntington are discussing.”

In other business:

• Due to recurring malicious and destructive behavior, the Andrews Post Office may be forced to lock its lobby doors at night, restricting the public access to mail boxes to daytime and evening hours. Town residents will be notified about details on the issues at hand and changes to the cur-rent hours as decisions are made.

• The Andrews Police Department received approval to donate $2,000 toward the Huntington County Sheriff’s Department’s purchase of a Firearms Training Simulator (FATS). The one-time do-nation will allow the officers in Andrews full access to the simulator for training purposes.