Are you recycling properly?

Too many contaminants still going into recycling bins

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  Scott LaMar has worked in both radio and television for more than four decades.
  
  Currently, LaMar is the Host and Executive Producer of The Spark program on WITF-FM, 89.5 & 93.3 in Harrisburg, Pa.
  
  Previously, LaMar was WITF TV’s Sr. Public Affairs producer and produced the station’s award-winning weekly public affairs TV program, Smart Talk.
  
  In addition to his on-air duties, LaMar has moderated political candidate debates, including those for candidates running for Pennsylvania governor and the U.S. Senate and was a regular contributor to BBC World News TV before and after the 2020 U.S. Presidential election.
  
  LaMar often emcees or moderates local events and has gone as far as California to emcee a national event.
  
  The American Society of Civil Engineers honored LaMar with their national Excellence in Journalism award in 2020. He has been nominated for five Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards.
  
  LaMar and The Spark have been recognized throughout the Central Pennsylvania community including ADVOZ Lancaster’s “Dignity in Dialogue Award”, the South-Central Assembly’s “Regional Citizen Award” and was named a “Humanitarian Hero” by The Humane Society of the United States/Pennsylvania.
  
  A native of Coatesville, Pa., LaMar has also worked as a broadcast news anchor, sports play-by-play announcer and manager.

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Last year, Lancaster County became one of the first counties in central Pennsylvania to limit what waste materials could be recycled to plastic bottles, metal cans, glass jars and bottles and corrugated cardboard. It came in response to China deciding to stop accepting recyclables from the U.S. creating an overabundance of recyclables in this country.

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Dr. Kathryn Sandoe, Chief Commercial Officer for the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority, appears on Smart Talk, September 9, 2019.

At the same time, the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority began an education campaign encouraging consumers to put items in recycling bins that can be recycled and not what are referred to as contaminants like newspapers, junk mail or non-corrugated boxes.

A year later, too many contaminants are still going into recycling bins and it is costing more money to recycle.

Kathryn Sandoe, Chief Commercial Officer for the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority is on Monday’s Smart Talk to discuss today’s recycling.

Also, the Hatfields and McCoys had the most famous family conflict in American history on the border of West Virginia and Kentucky in the late 1800s. But there are myths surrounding the “feud” as it became known and it led to stereotypes about Appalachia that exist to this day.

The American Experience on PBS presents the documentary The Hatfields and McCoys Tuesday night (9 p.m. on WITF-TV).

The film’s producer, director and writer Randall MacLowry talks about the two families and a changing America on Monday’s Smart Talk.

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William Anderson Hatfield (center) sits surrounded by his family on a winter’s day. Circa 1890s.