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Home My WebLink AboutMedia Articles The Herald-Mail ONLINE - Recycling gets new wrinkle at township center (print view) Page 1 of 3 The Herald-Mail ONLINE http://www.herald-mail.com/ _,,___.___,,~_...__.~.__~.___.___.'--<-.-___m__~'~__H~_m_. _~_U'~_'~___~~~_'__k~"""'~'___'_~_"~__"_"__'.""'_U~ Tuesday April 26, 2005 Recycling gets new wrinkle at township center by RICHARD F. BELISLE wayne§ÞQrQ@herªld:-:Jl1ªil.com WAYNESBORO, PA. - The Washington Township recycling center takes them all - cans, glass and plastic bottles, newspapers, cardboard, yard waste and leaves, car batteries, refrigerators and appliances, scrap metal and clothes. Clothes? That's right. Residents now may drop off used clothing at the recycling center at 12721 Buchanan Trail East. There's a 48-foot trailer to haul off all they drop in a new recycling program that started last week. The only requirement is that the clothing be put into plastic garbage bags, said Michael Christopher, Washington Township manager. "We'll take the clothes that places like Goodwill and Waynesboro Human Services won't take or can't take because they're too worn out," he said. "If it's marginal, we'll take it." The list of what the township will take includes all clothing, shoes, http://www.herald-mail.com/?module=displaystory&story jd= 11 0998&format=print 4/26/2005 The Herald-Mail ONLINE - Recycling gets new wrinkle at township center (print view) Page 2 of 3 belts, purses, blankets, bedding, curtains, all kinds of material, pillows, stuffed animals, unbroken dishes and glasses, flatware or sportswear, he said. There is no charge to drop it off. The township got into clothing recycling because of Dean C. Marchese, president of FutureGroup Inc., a New Market, Md., consulting firm. The company has about 20 employees, he said, and is growing. Its clients include large and small companies, he said. Marchese started the clothing recycling program two years ago and now has trailers at five recycling centers in Maryland and Pennsylvania, he said. "I'm trying to keep clothing from being thrown away," Marchese said. He works with nonprofit groups, churches and ministries to bring needed clothing to the poor in Appalachia and the Ozarks. "They are our main areas. There's a big need there," he said. Marchese's program also ships clothing overseas to tsunami victims or wherever it is needed because people have been impoverished by war and natural disasters. He said it takes two to three weeks for one of his trailers to be filled. Marchese said he has spent "several hundred thousands of dollars" collecting and distributing clothing over the last two years. "It isn't cheap. I do it because I'm trying to give something back," he said. http://www.herald-mail.com/?module=displaystory&story _id= 11 0998&format=print 4/26/2005 The Herald-Mail ONLINE - Recycling gets new wrinkle at township center (print view) Page 3 of3 CopyrightThe Herald-Mail ONLINE http://www.herald-mail.com/?module=displaystory&story _ id= 11 0998&format=print 4/2612005 The Herald-Mail ONLINE - Phone book collection program under way in Pa. (print view) Page 1 of 2 The Herald-Mail ONLINE http://www . herald-mai Lcom/ Friday July 8, 2005 Phone book collection program under way in Pa. CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. -Since 1993, approximately 200 tons of phone books have been collected through Franklin County's annual telephone book collection program, which began last week and runs through Aug. 15. In 2004 county government offices, along with businesses and individuals, recycled 30,000 pounds of phone books, said Dan Wolfe, a community planner with the Franklin County Planning Department. Containers for used phone books have been placed at the theater entrance of Chambers burg Mall; AC& T Fast Gas on North Antrim Way in Greencastle, Pa.; the Mercersburg Borough Hall; and the Waynesboro Mall on East Main Street, Waynesboro, Pa., Wolfe said. Telephone books also can be dropped off in the lobby of Fannett- Metal Elementary School, the Washington Township Recycling Center and the Pleasant Hall Volunteer Fire Co. in Pleasant Hall, Pa. Phone books also can be taken to the county's senior activities centers in Chambersburg, Greencastle, Waynesboro, Mont Alto, Mercersburg, Fort Loudon, Upper Strasburg and Dry Run, Wolfe said. http://www.herald_mail.comJ?module=displaystory&storyjd= 11617 4&format=print 7/812005 The Herald-Mail ONLINE - Phone book collection program under way in Pa. (print view) Page 2 of2 During the 13 years of the program, about 200,000 telephone books have been recycled, according to county figures. The books are delivered to a St. Thomas, Pa., dairy farm where they are ground up and used as livestock bedding. After that, the material is recycled once again when it is applied to farm fields as fertilizer. ---- CopyrightThe Herald-Mail ONLINE http://www.herald-mail.com/?module=displaystory &story _ id= 11617 4&format=print 7/8/2005 'l'heGazettenews.com Page 1 of2 eJ~ Annual Franklin County phone book recycling program begins July 1 By TERRY TALBERT TheGazetteNews.com Staff Writer June 27 - The cows can't wait, and neither can the owners of the Peckman Homestead Farm, a 300-acre dairy operation in St. Thomas. They can't wait for the county's annual phone book recycling program to begin on July 1. Each year, the commissioners collect literally tons of old phone books from residents and businesses and give them to the farm, where they are recycled. It has, in the words of county commission chairman Warren Elliott, turned into a "win-win" situation in which landfill space is saved and the pages of the phone books are turned into the earth, to become part of it. This year's recycling campaign runs from July 1 to Aug. 15, with residents encouraged to drop their old phone books off at one of a number of collection sites around the county. The commissioners began partnering with brothers Lowell and Gerald Peckman 13 years ago, when the men learned about the recycling program, and bought a machine that shreds the books into material for bedding for their herd, and as an organic soil additive. They found that their cows liked the "phone book" bedding as well as other traditional substances such as straw. They also found that applying the shredded material to cropland both enriched the soil and helped it retain precious moisture. The number of phone books dropped off for recycling has grown over the years. Franklin County Community Planner Dan Wolfe said that last year, 30,000 phone books weighing a total of 15 tons were collected - more than ever before. During this year's campaign, residents can drop their old phone books into specially marked dumpsters at the following locations: · Chambersburg Mall movie theater entrance · AC&T Fast Gas on North Antrim Way in Greencastle · The Mercersburg Borough Building · The Waynesboro Mall on Rt. 16 http://www.thegazettenews.com/absolutenm/templates/template.asp?articleid=7939&zonei ... 6/29/2005 TheGazettenews.com Page 2 of2 Books can also be dropped off at the Fannett-Metal Elementary School lobby, the Washington Township Recycling Center, the Pleasant Hall Fire Department and any of the Franklin County Senior Centers. ø~ Articles can be E-mailed to a friend and you can get a printable version of the article. http://www.thegazettenews.com/absolutenm/templates/template.asp?articlei d=793 9&zonei... 6/29/2005