Westchester County: 992,845 and counting
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- January
- 7
An astonishing piece of news from County Executive Andrew Spano’s tireless public relations office this morning: The one-millionth plastic bag in Westchester County’s recycling program is expected to be collected tomorrow at 2 p.m.
The event, which Spano is to attend, will occur at the Irvington Middle School where more than 36,000 plastic bags have been collected. This puts the school in first place, ahead of St. John and St.Paul’s School in Larchmont, which collected 21,850, but had the misfortune to turn in its bags back in December.
Now both schools deserve a lot of credit for their dedication to recycling, but Westchester County government is clearly the star of this event. Other governments might have just collected the bags and then recycled them. The county government, however, had the foresight and attention to detail to start counting the bags last March, and then stick with it.
For example, the county had collected 992,845 by the time this press release was sent out by email at 10:57 a.m. That’s a level of precision that’s rare in most workplaces today, and you have to wonder how many county employees and supervisors were needed to produce that.
All of this leads us at Politics on the Hudson to wonder – did they ever lose count? And if so, did they have to start all over again? Finally, we hope the county didn’t sabotage the celebration for Irvington Middle School, by publicizing this event now. What’s to stop another recycling group from turning in 8,000 plastic bags today, thereby stealing the middle school’s claim.
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on Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 at 12:33 pm by Len Maniace.
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