Even as Pasco County officials try to chart a new course for Pasco, recycling remains on the back burner of strategic plan discussions. ...more

November 8, 2009

Even as county officials try to chart a new course for Pasco, recycling remains on the back burner of strategic plan discussions. ...more

November 4, 2009

RESORCE, the private group that is trying to get more Pasco County residents interested in recycling, held a telephone directory recycling effort that collected more than three times the tonnage its leaders were expecting. Now, county officials need to do more to encourage people to recycle, the RESORCE leaders say. "Why shouldn't Pasco County become a leader in recycling?" Lew Corvene, the club's president, told The Suncoast News this week. ...more

August 2, 2008

The County Commission received a lot of calls last week from people expressing opposition to expanding the Pasco County Resource Recovery Facility. What spurred the calls – a flyer that appeared in many Pasco mailboxes last week. The mass mailing warned of possible pollution from an expanded resource recovery facility, which burns garbage to produce electricity. The flyer conveniently listed the number of the County Commission office. ...more

February 12, 2008

Although many details have to be worked out, Pasco County commissioners are right to finally get serious about recycling trash. Residents should buy into it as well. ...more

January 23, 2008

Nine haulers may find themselves competing to keep doing business in Pasco County as commissioners consider converting to a franchise system for trash and recycling collections. ...more

January 17, 2008

Can recycling turn trash into gold? No, county officials said at a public workshop today. But the county should boost its recycling efforts as one step in the right direction since the county often has too much trash to burn at the Pasco County Resource Recovery Facility and must export the excess garbage. ...more

January 16, 2008

Because trash is a terrible thing to waste, Pasco County commissioners will ask the public for ideas about recycling during a workshop today. ...more

January 16, 2008

Trash is a terrible thing to waste, so county commissioners will ask the public for ideas about recycling during a workshop planned for Wednesday. Commissioners didn't have to accept public comments at the Jan. 16 workshop, but decided this week to let residents and trash haulers speak. ...more

January 11, 2008

Fourteen months after taking over the District 4 county commission seat, Michael Cox is looking to the future, with goals for a multipurpose sports complex, mandatory recycling and acquisition of private utilities. ...more

January 1, 2008