Countywide : Shelley Urges More Efforts in Recycling
Greater emphasis on consumer education and the creation of an environmental resource center were cited as key goals for county environmentalists this year.
Ojai City Councilwoman Nina Shelley, speaking at the annual dinner of the Environmental Coalition last weekend, also noted the group’s partial success in fighting a proposed waste dump near the Ojai Valley.
Shelley represents Ojai on the Ventura Regional Sanitation District board.
Last week, the district board hired consultants to study new sites for a county dump as alternatives to Weldon Canyon, a key objective of the environmental group.
Shelley has also pushed for measures extending the life of Bailard landfill in Oxnard and for construction of a materials resource recovery center to separate recycled trash before it is discarded.
But building more recovery centers, new landfills and even waste-to-energy facilities are not permanent answers to the trash problem, Shelley said.
She encouraged her audience to press industries to package products in recyclable containers.
Product manufacturers are looking to the public, she said, to see if they are really serious about recycling.
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