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A Scott County company wants to decrease garbage in the Central Kentucky Landfill in Georgetown by sifting through household trash for recyclable materials.J. Bishop Enterprises in Georgetown has applied to the state Division of Waste Management for a transfer station, recycling center and a convenience center facility. The business will receive solid waste and recycling material, according to the public hearing notice for the facility. After the material is sorted, non-recyclable materials will be taken to a permitted disposal facility and recyclable material will be taken to a recycling center.The facility, which has yet to be built, will be located at 245 West Yusen Way, north of Georgetown.John Bishop, president J. Bishop Enterprises, said the facility will primarily be used to lessen the amount of garbage taken to the Central Kentucky Landfill, which gets trash from several Kentucky counties including Fayette and Scott. Bishop said the facility will be similar to a facilitator for recycling and won’t process the recyclable material itself.For example, if Bishop’s... (Lexington Herald Leader)
Hartwig’s art already speaks to a theme of reuse. She’s a Seattle-based sculptor who divides her time between making art in her Georgetown studio, teaching at Bellevue College and working as a carpenter. Her work is both made from and inspired by found materials, so her presence at this recycling facility makes perfect sense. In 2015, as part of Duwamish Revealed—a summer-long series of art installations, performances and events celebrating Seattle’s only river—Hartwig took over a long-abandoned pump station at the water’s edge and created a work from selected refuse she collected there. “As an artist, I create work that questions the systems that we have made in an attempt to be less barbaric,” she says.While Hartwig uses found materials to explore tangled histories and cultural choices, Seattle artist Max Cleary deliberatively constructs works that become mysterious focal points of the ongoing industrial production that underpins human civilization. Straddling the genres of photography, sculpture and installation, the works combine process and abstraction with history and irony. At Gallery4Culture in April, as part of the collaborative group Caché (with artists Jackson Baker Ryan and Alex Boeschenstein), Cleary used familiar building materials and video projections to conjure up the troubling essence of new yet empty residential dwellings and offered an intriguing narrative of Seattle’s proliferating urban space. The Recology CleanScapes facility should offer tremendous inspiration to both of these artists, and their work may inspire Seattleites to think about refuse in a new way. ... (Seattlemag)