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That’s why she came up with the idea to build an Anaerobic Digester to compost and recycle it along the 4700 block of Ashland City Highway in North Nashville.“They are going to see something that looks like an agricultural center, like a garden center,” Prasad said. “Up front there will he greenhouses and gardens, the digester is housed in a building, completely enclosed that looks like a garden or equestrian center.”Prasad says her plan would help the city get closer to its 30 year goal of zero waste to landfills at no cost to taxpayers.She plans to raise the money for the $14 million project on her own and with state environmental grants.“To create advanced recycling infrastructure like this dry digester, our community can greatly benefit by diverting those food scraps to the processing facility that allows them to be rapidly converted into compost and back into our farms," Pasad said.While admitting this plan is smart and sustainable, not everyone is on board with it.Neighbors of the proposed site location in north Nashville say waste is waste, and they don’t want it.“People have to understand the 100 year history of that community,” District 1 Metro Councilman Jonathan Hall said. “When you’ve been the district where everyone has deposited the things they don’t want, you’re naturally going to have two reactions: first, would you put it anywhere else? Have you looked anywhere else? And second, it is not the things we have in mind for ourselves.”Councilman Hall says he has heard loud and clear from his District 1 constituents, and 98 percent are against it.He s... (ntroversial compost proposal still hopes to help Nashville's trash problem)
Rogue Valley were sending them!As luck would have it, Jackson County has two hauling companies: one for Medford and Phoenix, and one serving Ashland and Talent. Because Recology negotiates its own set of contracts as to where recyclables are reprocessed, Ashlanders are not being asked to make the same drastic changes to their recycling patterns as the residents of Phoenix and Medford. The woman responsible for managing these contracts is Recology Waste Zero Specialist Jamie Rosenthal.Jamie grew up in Coos Bay, where she learned early on to be responsible about waste from a father who spent weekends collecting trash left behind by beachcombers. Ironically, her father was employed by a paper mill, so Jamie grew up seeing all sides of the impassioned battle between environmentalists and Oregon’s timber industry. In the cross-fire, her father’s paper mill was shuttered, causing her family serious economic hardship. When Southern Oregon University offered Jamie a generous scholarship, she moved to Ashland in 1997.Wanting to put her degree in communications to good purpose, Jamie researched several local companies before deciding that employee-owned Recology had a mission (“to return resources to their best and highest use”) that resonated with her own values. Working her way up from customer service to her present position, Jamie is now responsible for educating residents on how to reduce waste and recycle properly, as well as determining to which companies Recology can profitably sell the resources it has collected from its customers.That is no simple task. Haulers pick up... (steNot: Recycling center again accepting soft plastic for recycling)
