1/28/04

Holly Springs Launches Recycling Education Campaign
Television Commercial and Website Spread Recycling Message

In an effort to promote recycling and reduce waste sent to landfills, the Town of Holly Springs launched a recycling campaign that includes a television commercial and website.

The 30-second commercial, to air on local television stations in late January and February, features scenes in Holly Springs and describes what items can be recycled. The commercial directs viewers to visit the Holly Springs recycling website, www.thebin.us. The recycling website has detailed information about recycling in Holly Springs, links to information about recycling in North Carolina Towns other than Holly Springs, and a link to the main Holly Springs website.

The Town also purchased recycling containers for Town Hall offices as another part of the project. Before ordering recycling cans for individual offices, several recycling bins were placed at central locations in Town Hall and other Town buildings. Town employees who recycled in their own offices used cardboard boxes or other makeshift containers to collect recyclables, and often those containers were emptied with the office trash.

"The plastic recycling cans will make recycling convenient for Town employees, and the blue bins will serve as a constant reminder to recycle," said Tamara Ward, the Town's spokesperson. "With this recycling education campaign, we're not asking Holly Springs residents and North Carolinians to do anything we're not doing here in Town Hall. Recycling is easy, it preserves our the environment and it's good for Holly Springs."

Holly Springs is particularly aware of the benefits or recycling because, although the Town of Holly Springs currently ships its trash out of county, Wake County has a permit to build a landfill west of the Highway 55 Bypass in Holly Springs. The South Wake Landfill would open once the North Wake Sanitary Landfill fills in 2006, unless an alternate location for depositing trash is approved. County officials currently are seeking alternatives to the South Wake Landfill.

Town of Holly Springs - PO Box 8 - 128 South Main Street - Holly Springs, NC 27540 - (919) 552-6221 - Holly.Springs@hollyspringsnc.us