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Chamber Task Force Wants to Look at Recycling in 2010
A number of ways the Galesburg business community is looking at staying active in local and state government in 2010 has been their main organization's focus in recent weeks.

Galesburg-Area Chamber of Commerce president Bob Maus says the Chamber has a number of task forces that deal with various issues, from education to the environment, to the governmental affairs that meet at the Chamber on a regular basis.

Maus tells WGIL's "Galesburg Live" one of the Chamber's Environmental Task Force's goals for 2010 is bringing back what had been a community-wide effort in the past to get big items recycled.

"The E.P.A., for a number of years, came in and did tire recycling and then they were out at G.H.S. to take your paint and old stuff that you didn't want to send to the landfill," Maus said. "Unfortunately, we ran out of money for that. So, our group is going to work with area legislators to try and reinstate that funding, and try to bring the E.P.A. back on a regular basis to pick that stuff up."

Maus says the opportunities the E.P.A. has been in town in the past for recycling drop-offs have been very successful, and thinks they would be again.

Maus says the Chamber's Environmental Task Force also wants to continue to research and try and encourage more use of alternative energies, and they'd also like to see Galesburg High School form an Environmental Club student organization.
12 28 09 by Newsroom
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