Sedona Recycles News Archive

On Friday January 30, Sedona Recycles Executive Director Jill McCutcheon presented Camp Verde Mayor Tony Gioia with an award for his pioneer leadership, becoming the first mayor in the Verde Valley to receive such an award. The Recycling Pioneer Award is presented to cities and towns whose recycling programs have been active for ten years. As the first community in the Verde Valley to adopt a recycling program, Camp Verde is the first to receive this award.

Since 1999, Mayor Gioia has been a leader in espousing the need for more citizens to reduce, reuse, and recycle. In the last ten years, more than 1,000 tons of valuable materials have been diverted from the local landfill as a result of Camp Verde’s commitment.

In September 2008, Sedona Recycles opened a new recycling drop-off site at the Outpost Mall in addition to the existing Camp Verde High School site. Since then, 47.5 tons of paper, glass, cardboard, metals, and plastic have been recycled at the Outpost Mall site alone. “That number floors me,” said Mayor Gioia during the ceremony. This month Outpost Mall will see even more improvement with the donation of gravel from Yavapai Apache Sand and Rock and Gary’s Landscaping.

Camp Verde recycled a total of 224.5 tons last year, up from 159 tons in 2007. Sums up McCutcheon, "Recycling is alive and well in the Verde Valley and it is Sedona Recycles’ mission as a non-profit recycling center to expand our efforts to reduce, reuse and recycle."