In our small part of the world, access to resources seems almost unlimited. We live in a time and place of relative abundance, where convenience is a top priority and time is a precious commodity.

Despite this, households throughout our community have made the time to reduce, reuse, and recycle in efforts to both take better care of our natural resources (and our planet) and to help save the cost of dumping more garbage into a landfill.

Village staff would like to thank all those who consistently make a conscious effort to rinse and recycle their plastics, glass, and cans, and to recycle their junkmail and other paper and cardboard. We would like to thank those who regularly recycle old electronics and those that compost their food waste. Due to your efforts, more than 2,296 tons of material have been kept out of the landfill this year alone.

During 2017, we are hoping to increase household recycling to approximately 2,400 tons, while not increasing the amount of garbage placed in the landfill (an estimated 6,996 tons in 2016).