The mayor of the Municipality of North Norfolk is excited about the success of a new program to keep material out of the landfill. Neil Christoffersen says over the course of 2016 more than a hundred tons of metal were recycled and just shy of three thousand tires as well. Christoffersen notes the municipality also collected fifty-eight pallets of e-waste and recycled approximately nine thousand liters of oil and eighty bags of oil jugs. He says as for household hazardous waste, they saw four hundred kilograms of BBQ tanks, six thousand paint cans, and a hundred kilograms of aerosol cans. Christoffersen adds he's extremely pleased with the response they've had from folks throughout the entire municipality as they continue with programs to divert more and more material from the landfill.

He says North Norfolk recently built a new shed to store household garbage, noting they run it through a shredder once every quarter. Christoffersen says the shed is forty feet wide and eighty feet long and they filled it full to about six feet high in just three months. He notes once the garbage is shredded it takes up only about one-sixth of the original size of the trash pile, adding that indicates how much space they're going to save when digging their pit. Christoffersen says he'd like to remind everyone to keep metal objects out of their household garbage from now on because metal won't go through the shredder.