Improve the State’s understanding of existing recycling operations and capacities within rural Nevada and identify gaps, barriers, and opportunities to improve recycling access. Assess the feasibility of creating rural partnerships with a hub and spoke type of system to improve access to recycling for members of those communities and improve the recycling rate overall in the State. Develop a Feasibility Study report that highlights existing rural recycling services, service providers, and recycling gaps as well as strategies to fill recycling gaps, including a hub and spoke recycling system, and costs to implement such a system. The report should ultimately answer the questions: Is this hub and spoke system feasible? If yes, what are the costs and barriers the community will need to overcome, what can Nevada incorporate from other states’ programs, and what are the selling points to the community and stakeholders? If not, why not?
