Recycling success may come back to the user
By Holly Edwards
County Editor
For everyone who’s ever ndmd
"Why should I take part in recy
cling?", county recycling coor
dinator Mary McCarley has two ans
wers: The county landfill is getting
full, and our natural resources are
running out
McCarley is kicking off a
campaign to inspire more people in
the county to recycle and, more im
portantly, reduce the amount of
trash they generate.
"We’re really trying to push
source reduction," McCarley said.
"If you don’t create waste to begin
with, you don’t have to do anything
with it”
Some ways people can scale down
the amount of garbage they produce
include buying reusable items and
avoiding disposables, purchasing
items in bulk to save on packaging,
buying only what they need, and
consuming less.
The state is offering its own incen
tives for county residents to recycle
more and consume less: A state
mandated goal requires all counties
to reduce their waste stream by 25
percent by July, 1993. Some people
RECYCLING
CENTER
Brunswick County recycling coordinator Mary McCarley recently
erected 64 "Recycling Center" signs throughout the county to remind
everyone to help preserve our natural resources and conserve valuable
space in the county landfill. Also, a state-mandated goal requires all
counties to recover 25 percent of their waste stream through recycling
by next July, McCarley said, and Brunswick County currently
recovers only about one percent.
may also be inspired to try backyard
composting for the first time after a
statewide ban on yard waste in land
fills takes effect January 1.
Currently, Brunswick County
recovers about one percent of its
waste stream through recycling, said
county engineer Robert Tucker. If
everyone got involved in recyling,
Tucker estimated the county could
recover over half of the trash it gen
erates each year.
While McCarley admitted the
county is not likely to reach the state
goal by July, she added that 25
percent recovery is a goal, not a re
quirement.
"It’s going to take a lot of effort on
everyone’s part to achieve this,” she
said. "The important thing is to
show a good-faith attempt to
achieve the goal. But it is only a
goal.”
McCarley has erected 64 signs
throughout the county indicating the
direction to county recycling cen
ters. As more and more people
notice the signs, she said she hopes
more and more people will begin to
use the recycling centers.
"If T can get even one more person
into recycling, it will all be worth
it," she said.
As an extra incentive, McCarley
has organized a program in which
non-profit organizations - such as
the Girl Scouts or the N. C. Fourth
of July Festival Committee — can
borrow the county recycling trailer
to use for special events. All of the
South seniors ask for own
ceremony
By Marybeth Bianchi
Feature Editor
South Brunswick seniors want to
see graduation ceremonies continue
at their school, the Brunswick
County Board of Education learned
Monday night.
Presenting the case to the board
for his fellow seniors, Dexter Tilton
said the students, who take great
pride in their school, feel it’s "total
ly unfair" to have graduation off
campus and that they should have
the right to graduate on school
grounds. He said approximately 75
percent of the student body and the
principal support holding the gradu
ation ceremony at South Brunswick.
When the board approved the
1992-93 school calendar they ar
ranged for all three high school
graduations to take place on the
same day in Brunswick Community
College’s new auditorium.
"I don’t think our intention was
ever to take away your graduation,"
said board member Polly Russ, who
served on the calendar committee.
She said the board thought it would
be nice to have all graduation
ceremonies take place on one day in
a location where the possibility of
rain would not be a concern.
Yvonne Bright said the board
wanted seniors to have a "first-class
graduation and have it indoors," at
staggered times to accommodate all
three high schools.
Chairman Donna Baxter said she
plans to meet with principals and
have a recommendation for the
board at an upcoming meeting.
In other business:
•In the first reading of a policy
change, board members agreed to
switch their meetings to the second
Monday of each month so they and
others could attend county com
missioners’ meetings which are held
the first Monday of each month.
The change would take effect in
February. The next meeting is
Personnel changes
are made by schools
Several personnel changes were
approved by the Brunswick County
Board of Education Monday night.
Leaves of absence were granted to
three Supply Elementary employees:
Nancy Vereen of Bolivia, Lisa
Brown of Wilmington and Annie B.
Hewett of Supply.
Karen Cayot of Shallotte was
hired as an interim special education
teacher at Supply Elementary, and
Dawn Hicks of Southport as a math
teacher at West Brunswick High.
Carol Williams of Leland, special
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education teacher at North Bruns
wick High, will be splitting her time
between the high school and Lincoln
Primary.
New part-time remedial teachers
include Jill Wanchock of Wilming
ton, at North Brunswick High, and
Kimberly George of Castle Hayne
and Kellie Suggs of Wilmington,
both at Bolivia Elementary.
The board accepted the resignation
of Ann McManus of Southport, a
teacher at Supply Elementary, and
transferred Elouise Jacobs of Leland
from clerical assistant to Choices
teacher assistant at Leland Middle.
Virginia Hines of Leland was
hired as a JTPA job specialist at
North Brunswick and South Bruns
wick high schools, and Carrie Smith
of Bolivia was hired as a part-time
custodian at South Brunswick High.
The following were approved as
substitute teachers: Sonia Johnson
of Shallotte, Julia Harris of Ocean
Isle Beach, Paige Hargrove of Wil
mington, Sheila Alston and Cheryl
Shew of Southport, Lisa Locklear of
Leland and Veronica Benitez of
Seaside.
scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Wednesday,
January 13, at West Brunswick High
School.
•Assistant superintendent Bill
Turner reported on a number of
problems including a cracked boiler
at Union Primary School and a
blown-out breaker at Waccamaw
Elementary School. The
maintenance crew worked to
remedy both situations by Tuesday.
TIMS, the Transportation In
formation Management System, is
80 percent completed, Turner said,
and he hopes to have it in operation
by the first of the year.
He also noted that underground
tanks at the bus garage will be
removed and placed above ground
because it’s cheaper than having
wells dug for monthly monitoring ol
possible contamination.
Bids for the replacement of the
Union Primary School roof and high
school gym floors have been
delayed. ”1 think we need to hold
and get some other things straight
with the finances," Turner told the
board.
•South Brunswick Middle School
assistant principal Tom Simmons in
vited parents and board members to
a regional seminar entitled "New
Solutions for Tomorrow’s Skills",
scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to noon Jan
uary 15 at the Wilmington Hilton.
•The board named Polly Russ,
Bill Fairley and Yvonne Adams to
one-year terms on the grievance
committee. Yvonne Bright,
Thurman Gause and Ronnie Benton
will serve as alternates.
•The board set Saturday, January
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recyclable drink cans collected
could then be turned over by the or
ganization for money.
Some private organizations are al
ready involved in the drive to recy
cle. Ocean Trail Convalescent Cen
ter in Southport is accepting used
panty hose to recycle. All of the pro
ceeds will help purchase crafts and
personal products for the center’s
elderly residents.
Packaging Center Plus on Beach
Road is accepting styrofoam pack
aging peanuts to be recycled or
reused, and the Long Beach Recrea
tion Center is looking for as many
aluminum can tabs as it can get. All
of the proceeds from the tabs will be
donated to the Ronald McDonald
House, a program that cares for dis
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County recycling centers are lo
cated at the Southport, Leland and
Ocean Isle Beach transfer stations,
Oxpen and N. C. 904 convenience
sites, and Waccamaw Northwest and
Town Creek district parks.
Municipal recycling centers are set
up in Long Beach, Caswell Beach,
Holden Beach, Boiling Spring Lakes
and Calabash.
Newsprint, aluminum and three
colors of glass are accepted at all of
the sites. Plastics 1 and 2, such as
soda bottles, milk jugs and laundry
detergent containers, are accepted at
Long Beach, Caswell Beach and
Holden Beach, and all types of
plastics are accepted at Boiling
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