How does recycling benefit Frederick County?
One person, or family, really can make a difference! By participating in the Frederick County recycling program and recycling all that can be, you are making a real impact on the community while helping to preserve the environment. Frederick County’s landfill is filling up and we are currently trucking the majority of our waste to an out-of-state landfill facility to be managed. This system is costly, inefficient and unsustainable. Every ton of garbage we send fills up 3 cubic yards of landfill space. In 2007, we threw away enough trash to fill up 927,627 cubic yards of landfill space. There is only so much room in our landfill and we will fill it to capacity if we don’t recycle more NOW!
