{"id":2452775,"date":"2020-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=318533"},"modified":"2020-01-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T07:00:00","slug":"recycling-center-at-willits-in-basalt-gets-extended-through-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/recycling-center-at-willits-in-basalt-gets-extended-through-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycling center at Willits in Basalt gets extended through January"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Plastic is piled in recycling dumpsters at the Waste Management Recycling Center in Basalt. The facility is in danger of closing in 2020 but was given a reprieve for January.<\/strong>
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The public, drop-off recycling center in Willits will remain open through January while the long-term fate of midvalley recycling is pondered, officials have announced.<\/p>\n

The town of Basalt said on its website that it worked with Waste Management to keep the facility located at 15 Park Ave. open through Jan. 31.<\/p>\n

Eagle County and Basalt officials will meet Thursday to discuss possible directions for the recycling program, according to Kris Widlak, Eagle County director of communications.<\/p>\n

The fate of the popular site has been in doubt after Pitkin County announced it would pull funding starting in 2020. Waste Management required a subsidy of $60,000 to operate the facility in 2019, citing low prices for recycled materials. Pitkin County and Basalt split the fee for 2019. Basalt officials said they couldn\u2019t afford the entire $60,000 subsidy in 2020 and budgeted $30,000 for other green initiatives instead.<\/p>\n

Midvalley residents have lobbied Eagle County government to get involved in a solution. The county partners with towns in the Eagle Valley on recycling efforts. The towns provide drop-off sites and the county hauls materials to its landfill in Wolcott for processing.<\/p>\n

Whatever the solution, it\u2019s going to be expensive. Waste Management now says the subsidy to operate its Willits facility throughout 2020 would be $120,000 due to the economic state of recyclables.<\/p>\n

Public officials have said residents might have to bite the bullet and pay for curbside recycling rather than rely on a drop-off site. However, residents of rural Eagle County in Missouri Heights said it would cost them about $288 per year to add curbside recycling.<\/p>\n

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Plastic is piled in recycling dumpsters at the Waste Management Recycling Center in Basalt. The facility is in danger of closing in 2020 but was given a reprieve for January.Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times The public, drop-off recycling center in Willits will remain open through January while the long-term fate of midvalley recycling is pondered, officials […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2452775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 23:23:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}