Diamond Bar : Recycling Funds Sought

Community leaders in this unincorporated area have asked the state for almost $87,000 to help finance a curbside recycling program that would serve 4,000 homes in northern Diamond Bar.

The bulk of the program’s cost would go toward the purchase of three separate containers--to hold paper, glass and aluminum--for each of the households served by the program.

Phyllis Papen, president of the Diamond Bar Improvement Assn. and director of the proposed program, said residents would be very receptive to curbside recycling. But Diamond Bar, as an unincorporated area, lacks the spending authority to initiate such a program on its own, she said.

The program would be expected to reclaim 3.9 tons of newspaper, 16,000 glass bottles and 5,000 aluminum cans that now go to the Spadra landfill, Papen said. After an initial investment of $192,000, of which $105,000 would be provided by the company that will collect the recyclable materials, the program would be self-supporting, she said.