Promoting Healthy Homes and communities

The Muhlenberg County Family Consumer Sciences agent worked with advisory leaders to form the Muhlenberg County Green Recycling Team 2009 to address county recycling needs. The committee, consisting of County Judge Executive, Greenville City Administrator, Board of Education, Extension Homemakers, public libraries, Rural KY Delta Project, and concerned citizens, received a $50,000 grant from the Felix E. Martin Foundation to build five bins to be placed at recycling sites. The bins, built by a local business, are taken by County Road Dept. to Muhlenberg County Opportunity Center, which employs mentally and physically challenged adults, where they are unloaded and the contents sold. Opportunity Center revenue has increased by $16,695, and 61,000 pounds of papers and plastics have not gone to landfills.

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