Grant to Promote Rural Area Recycling
Ventura County and the California Conservation Corps have together landed a $23,124 state grant to promote recycling in the county’s rural and unincorporated areas.
Officials say they will use the money to educate residents about recycling.
Paul Magie, conservation supervisor with the corps’ Camarillo Service District, said the money will also help with collecting information on what people recycle and with building compost bins.
“It is harder to reach rural areas because they are not necessarily on city or county trash pickup routes,” Magie said. “In the data collection, we want to pop open a [trash] can to see what people are and are not recycling. The idea is to increase the volume of recycling from rural and unincorporated areas.”
The grant, which comes from the California Department of Conservation, Division of Recycling, will go to the corps’ Camarillo Service District and the county’s Solid Waste Management Department.
Members of the corps, a state agency that provides work for young adults in resources protection and in building projects, will make the compost bins and place them in schools in unincorporated areas.
These activities are designed to help the county meet a state law that requires jurisdictions to increase recycling efforts.
The corps has about 100 workers and 17 staff members in its local office.
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