Residents asked not to dump trash in Gravette's new recycling trailer

Allyson Ransom at the recycling trailer with bins that are plainly marked with the items that are acceptable in each particular bin. An open-top cardboard trailer is parked nearby. The service is available adjacent the Gravette Police Department.
Allyson Ransom at the recycling trailer with bins that are plainly marked with the items that are acceptable in each particular bin. An open-top cardboard trailer is parked nearby. The service is available adjacent the Gravette Police Department.

— The new recycling trailer service in Gravette may not be in immediate jeopardy, but....

“Many people are using it and love having it here,” said Allyson Ransom, Gravette director of communications, “but it is also being abused.”

“We have had it filling up faster than normal due to some person or persons putting garbage in the compartments, carpet pads, and on another occasion, fluorescent bulbs too,” she explained.

Wendy Cravens, director of Benton County Solid Waste, said, “It is illegal dumping for people to put items (such as those mentioned above) in the trailer that are not accepted.”

“I don’t want to lose this free trailer service,” Ransom said, “so I am appealing to conscientious citizens to keep their eyesopen and report any obvious misuse of the trailer.”

Putting up a surveillance camera may be necessary, she added.

Information is available at city hall about whatis and is not acceptable, or on the city’s website: CityofGravette-ar.gov/ and click on CityHall/ news. Information is also plainly printed on the bins of the trailer.

News, Pages 13 on 04/13/2011