New Recycling Services Offered at AHDC

According to an article in the The Daily (Ark.) Shiftings Herald, the Arkadelphia Human Development Center’s Volunteer Council recently joined a number of community businesses and organizations to establish the Clark County Recycling Cooperative, on the AHDC campus. CCRC offers a work setting for center residents with developmental disabilities and provides recycling services to small- and medium-sized businesses in Arkadelphia and surrounding communities, the articles says.

Alcoa awarded a $15,000 grant for the purchase of a mobile, commercial shredder that will allow staff and residents to travel to businesses and shred confidential documents on site. The shredder will be added to the equipment already in place at the on-site recycling operation, which includes a baler for cardboard, paper and plastics, and a stationary shredder.

After the center converted to an adult facility, designed to transition people with developmental disabilities into community living and working situations, and with buildings, resources and expertise in place, the AHDC residents and staff officially began recycling July 1.

The business accepts cardboard, white paper and plastics. That provides many jobs for center residents ranging from pick-up work in the community, operating the baler, sorting, shredding and balling up newspaper that is required for the fluff to compact other products in the baler.