{"id":302,"date":"2010-10-05T08:46:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T12:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unionvilletimes.com\/?p=302"},"modified":"2010-10-05T08:47:37","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T12:47:37","slug":"county-official-raps-e-marlborough-over-recycling-law-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"County official raps E. Marlborough over recycling law failure"},"content":{"rendered":"

State DEP, Chester County say township has been out of compliance with recycling rules for a decade: $20,000 in grant money withheld<\/span>
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By Mike McGann<\/strong>, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com<\/em><\/span><\/span>
\n\"\"<\/a>EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 The state Department of Environmental Protection has a message for the township: a decade is long enough to be out of compliance with the state\u2019s recycling laws.<\/p>\n

Nancy Fromnick, Chester County\u2019s recycling coordinator attended Monday night\u2019s Township Supervisors meeting with the intent of getting the township moving toward compliance \u2014 and about $20,000 in state grant money DEP is holding up until the township meets state requirements.<\/p>\n

East Marlborough is required to both document its efforts on recycling \u2014 residents and business must participate in curbside recycling, or document when recycling materials go \u2014 and communicate the recycling rules twice a year with residents and businesses when it went over 5,000 residents in the 2000 Census. The township also needs to pass an ordinance specifying the rules and enforcement measures for the recycling plan. While it is already thought that most residents and businesses in the township recycle, there is no documentation, currently.<\/p>\n

As yet, the township has failed to comply with the law, which has been in place since 1988, Fromnick said, despite efforts from her office to get it to do so.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve had 10 years to do this,\u201d Fromnick told the supervisors. \u201cI\u2019m just the messenger from DEP.\u201d<\/p>\n

Currently, some 39 townships, boroughs and cities in the county fall under this requirement, and Fromnick said only four, including East Marlborough, are not meeting the requirements of the state law. The failure to comply is keeping $20,000 in state money, plus ongoing bonuses for recycling amounts out of the township\u2019s coffers.<\/p>\n

Township officials seemed frustrated with the requirements \u2014 including a lot of reporting and additional paperwork \u2014 and some of the exchanges between Fromnick and Township Manager Jane Laslo were a bit on the testy side \u2014 and the two sparred over what has transpired in recent years on efforts to get East Marlborough to comply.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not really a matter of compliance,\u201d Laslo said. \u201cIt\u2019s a matter of documentation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fromnick said she or staff from DEP were willing to come in and help the township put the program in place and get things moving \u2014 and offer she said has been made numerous times in the past. The township must also spell out the recycling rules to residents and businesses twice a year.<\/p>\n

Notification can be placed on the township\u2019s Web site \u2014 good for one of the yearly notifications \u2014 but a second, printed notice must also be sent out. Although there was some initial discussion about including the notice in township tax bills, but that was later ruled out, as too much information would need to be included.<\/p>\n

Currently, the township doesn\u2019t have a newsletter \u2014 as many surrounding communities do \u2014 leaving them without a simple way to communicate issues to the public. Although no numbers were cited at the meeting, sources in the local publishing world suggest printing, design and mailing for such a newsletter would cost less than $2,000, possibly a lot less, depending on format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

State DEP, Chester County say township has been out of compliance with recycling rules for a decade: $20,000 in grant money withheld By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 The state Department of Environmental Protection has a message for the township: a decade is long enough to be out of compliance with the state\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[29,51,38,52,50,24,46],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-chester-county","tag-dep","tag-east-marlborough","tag-grant-money","tag-recycling","tag-unionville","tag-unionville-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}