Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First

Landfill prepares to close and cap cell

The Kimball Board of Public Works heard from two separate, but interconnected, entities at their regular board meeting Tuesday, June 23.

Larissa Binod, director of the Kimball Recycling Center and Keep Kimball Beautiful presented the quarterly financial report to the board.

Binod stated that in January the center collected more than 55,000 pounds of recyclables, February added another 41,000 pounds and 82,000 pounds of recycles was collected in March.

"In March we started recycling a significant amount of plastics from Castronics, hence the roll-offs in front of the recycling facility," Bi...