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August 23, 2007
Steenstra has plans for waste authority
Former West Virginia-Citizen Action Group director Norm Steenstra is set to
take over the Kanawha County Solid Waste Authority, Steenstra confirmed
Wednesday.
Steenstra will start work as director of the Solid Waste Authority early next
month at a salary of $42,000 a year.
Steenstra headed CAG for about 18 years and helped pass legislation that led
to the Kanawha County Solid Waste Authority and its Slack Street recycling
center. As that facility — housed in an aging warehouse — gets older, Steenstra
will have to figure out where the Solid Waste Authority is headed.
“The Solid Waste Authority has just about outgrown the Slack Street
facility,” he said Wednesday. Part of Steenstra’s job will be to find a new home
for the recycling center.
Through the 1990s, former Solid Waste Authority Director Sally Shepherd ran
the program from an environmental standpoint, Steenstra said. When Tim Daily
took over the facility in 2002, he brought a more businesslike approach to the
Solid Waste Authority.
Steenstra, picked to head the authority after Daily left last month, hopes to
do both.
“For me, the challenge is going to be to take the policy that we created [for
the Solid Waste Authority] and see how efficient and effective we can be with
it,” Steenstra said.
Steenstra takes over a county whose towns have varying recycling policies and
different methods for recycling. He hopes to make it easier for all county
residents to keep garbage out of local landfills and recycle.
“I want to make it easier to recycle,” he said. “We’ve got to make it
convenient, and we’ve got to make it smart.”
To contact staff writer Rusty Marks, use e-mail or call 348-1215.
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