Pomona : Recycling Program Begun

A newspaper recycling program has been started by Councilwoman Donna Smith to pay for municipal projects reduced or eliminated from Pomona’s budget. Funds from the program, expected to generate $36,000 in the first year, will be used by the public library to purchase new books, by the Parks and Recreation Department to buy equipment for youth and senior-citizen activities and by the Police Department to implement a drug education program in the elementary schools, Smith said.

Twenty metal bins, purchased for the program by a local recycling mill, will be placed around the city at parks, schools and other sites. Smith, who will coordinate all operations, said that a local paper stock company will service the bins and pay the recycling program $30 a ton for collected newspaper.