OUR VIEW: Treasuring trash

We hope the county will give its blessing to an Ivanhoe-based company’s plan to take in Wythe trash. Commonwealth Recycling Services, which already handles the county’s recycling, is thinking of buying a composting system that would convert trash to compost material to be used for gardening, farming and erosion control. However, before the company buys a machine, it wants some assurance that it can get the county’s trash, which is now hauled to and buried in Tennessee.
County leaders would be fools to not cash in on the business plan that revolves around what gardeners refer to as “black gold.”
This is the type of thinking and acting this country, not to mention county, needs. Small companies thinking big have been and are still the backbone of this nation. It’s refreshing to see that in a world where the biggest companies are able to use economies of scale to sometimes control the market that a small business can lead the way by envisioning better, cheaper and more efficient ways to do business.