Moore, Oklahoma, ponders curbside recycling vote

Referendum would ask residents to pay $3 a month.

KOCO 5, Oklahoma City, reports that the City Council of Moore, Oklahoma, is expected to vote Monday, Aug. 1, 2016, on whether to allow residents to vote on a $3 monthly curbside recycling program on the November ballot.

“This is the 11th hour on the environment,” Moore Recycling Coalition co-founder Leslie Bonebreak says in the article. “If we all did a little bit, it would snowball into a big effect.” 

Residents attempting to unload recyclables must currently drive them to a facility near Northwest 5th and Telephone Road. Bonebreak added that the bins at this facility are always at capacity. 

“It’s important for our city,” Councilor Melissa Hunt says. “We’re a good-size city and we’re the only municipality around here that doesn’t have curbside recycling.”