Dalton-Whitfield Solid Waste Authority

DALTON, GA -  Residents participating in the City of Dalton Curbside Recycling program collected over 1 million pounds of recyclables during the first six months of the year.  This is an 18.9% increase compared to the same time last year.  Recycling takes a product at the end of its useful life and uses all or part of it to make another product instead of more garbage.  Five plastic #1 (PET) bottles, such as water and soda bottles, yield enough fiber to make one extra large T-shirt, one square foot of carpet, or enough fiber to fill one ski jacket.

Representatives from the Dalton-Whitfield Solid Waste Authority congratulate employees who participated in the Landfill Equipment and Truck Road-E-O organized by the Georgia Chapter of the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) on May 12th in Dublin, GA.