For thoses with who have been dragged through every detail of this project for the past few months as it has developed thus far, please bear with me. I need to bring all others up to speed.
Once I determined that there was a need for developing this recycling program and I began to field opinions, I was overwhelmed by the number of people in the community who really wanted to be able to save our landfills from over flowing with plastic. Actually, I had started with the idea of recycling glass. However, after hours of research into this direction, I found that not only is recycling glass very difficult and costly for a town remotely located as ours, but glass really isn't the problem for our environment that plastic. Where glass, which is only sand, is ground back into the soil, plastic actually swells in the landfills, taking up more room over time.
From that point I was able to get 12 people in the community of like minds yet with varied expertise's on the subject together to discuss the feasibility of implementing the project for Lewistown. They were overwhelming in agreement that this should move forward and that I should continue to manage the project.
The problem with this, however, is that now I am in Florida for the winter and can't have hands on very easily. Everyone reassured me, that in fact it, would not be difficult for me, with the access of technology available today. Oh sure, easier said than done and they aren't the ones doing it. They are great cheer leaders, but not the greatest movers and shakers at getting things done.
So, after many phone calls and e mails I don't have a sense that I ahve made a great deal of progress. I was reminded that this is a marathon not a sprint. It feels more like I'm on a treadmill, actually, but each day I push ahead a bit more, with a little more knowledge about how to get the job done.
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