The city of Craig has started working with Yampa Valley Sustainability Council and Moffat County commissioners to explore the possibility of bringing a recycling program back to the county. “The city and the county are hoping to develop solutions to begin to address recycling in our community,” City Manager Peter Brixius said. Road and Bridge Director Trevor Campbell, who is responsible for overseeing Craig’s Solid Waste Division, said the conversation is still very preliminary, and there are many logistics to work out before the entities can decide whether a program might be possible.
The logistics include how to collect recyclables, how to process them and make sure they are being processed correctly, and figuring out how to sustain a recycling program financially. The city has had preliminary conversations with YVSC and met briefly with the county commissioners to open up the conversation about recycling.
The intent would be to produce a recycling program that’s a combined effort between the city, county and YVSC, and it has to make sense and be able to support itself. “We don’t want to provide a service with only the perception of recycling,” Campbell said. “From collection to processing and what happens on the back end, it has to be a thoughtful process.”