Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
By PAMELA JANSSON
pjansson@yourdailyglobe.com
BESSEMER — The Gogebic County Board of Commissioners voted on April 8 to reject a request to support a county ordinance on the “Community Recovery of Unsaleable Goods.”
During the meeting’s public comment period, Brittany Martin of Ironwood lobbied for support of the ordinance, which would require retail businesses to make applicable, unsaleable goods available for recovery by a volunteer task force that would distribute them to nonprofit organizations or, if not fit for use, would recycle them.
Martin said that a lot of businesses dispose of exces...
