Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, has announced that its residents and businesses recycled 43.4 percent of their waste in 2015, which exceeds the national average by almost 10 percentage points.
According to a report on LancasterOnline, the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority (LCSWMA) says the recycled material equals about 235,019 tons. This includes:
- paper;
- organics;
- metals;
- construction and demolition materials;
- tires;
- plastics (13.5 percent increase);
- household hazardous waste; and
- home recyclables.
Food waste from stores and colleges showed the largest increase in local recycling last year, LCSWMA reports, with large food streams being diverted for composting from Weis Market, Giant Foods, Wal-Mart and other businesses and from Elizabethtown College, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster Bible College and Millersville University.
The waste authority says it will be hosting free home composting workshops for Lancaster County residents through the summer months.
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