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Phone (828) 692-0385 . Fax (828) 693-0942 . 121 Third Avenue West, Suite 4 . Hendersonville, NC 28792

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Volunteers are the lifeblood of our organization. Join us to help protect water quality, promote better environmental public policies, educate on green energy and sustainability and advocate recycling. Read about ALL volunteer opportunities here. Contact ECO NOW to volunteer! LEARN MORE ABOUT our four mission-area committees: Energy, Green Infrastructure, Recycling, Water Quality.

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Events Calendar

Regulate Logging in Flat Rock – Petition Drive

Henderson County: Lasting Legacy or Vanishing Jewel?

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Advocacy Issues and Positions

City of Hendersonville: 

Click here to read the Green Challenge Task Force Final Report 2009. The report includes future recycling plans for change in Hendersonville.

2010 Update on Efficiency in Waste Hauling

The Henderson County Board of Commissioners has ordered the Solid Waste Advisory Committee to stop work on its efficiency plan.  The Commissioners’ position at this time is that preserving free enterprise among waste haulers takes precedent over possible improved efficiency in the recycling of solid waste in Henderson County.  For further explanation, see the position paper below.

ECO Position on Efficiency in Waste Hauling – September 20, 2009

by Katie Breckheimer, former chair of the ECO Recycling Committee

Background information:

As part of the recommendation of the consultants hired to analyze the Henderson County Solid Waste system (referred to as the 2009 Feasibility Study), one of the recommendations is to ask county staff to work with the 18 independent waste haulers, who are permitted by the county to collect residential waste, to come up with an efficiency plan. This was presented to the county commissioners for a decision on August 3, 2009. A decision was made on September 16th to separate out the capital improvement plan (which was approved on that date) and hold a special hearing /workshop regarding the efficiency plan. The language in the recommendation is soft regarding an efficiency plan. Franchising the haulers is only one way to do that. In 1998/99 the county commissioners voted down a controversial plan to franchise, much to the disappointment of those who had worked for months in preparation for it.

Natural Resource Conservation:

ECO wants natural resources preserved.  The State of North Carolina is requiring that more and more containers be recycled (bottles and cans) and the county can be fined for not having a good recycling plan and/or programs in place.  Click for NC GS 130A-309.10  state law on recycling.


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