McMaster's Small But Powerful Green Cabal Prepares Chatham County For Recycling

So Savannah's agreement with Pratt Recycling is the envy of the low country. Kind of like an if we collect it, they will build it kind of thing. Already the Chatham County commission is aswoon with possibilities for the unincorporated parts of Chatham:

"I'd love to see the county follow the city's lead on this and figure out how to join in and make that service available to the unincorporated area."

Needless to say, I haven't seen any answers from either the city or the county that sufficiently address the costs involved (see Estupido Savannah's lucid post) or even an articulate reason as to why the recycling program needs to be in the first place when we have a perfectly good incinerator (again see Estupido Savannah). I think John McMasters, current Republican candidate for chairman of the Chatham County Commission, knows what really went down:

"There was a significant private and powerful small group, Savannah Recycles!, that opened the eyes of city management about the need to recycle. This was done through their access to and their individual historic standing with city government."

So how did this small but powerful group get Mayor Otis Johnson to open his eyes? What was the lever used to accomplish that? Maybe A Clockwork Orange style brainwashing where the mayor and his council were forced to watch Richard Florida presentations on how to attract the creative class? (More gays, more bars, more museums, more art galleries, more irony, more green everything!)

This Green Cabal,evidently reaches all the way to the statehouse (with ole Greenie Perdue basically saying, "Yes, I love kittens, puppies, children, beautiful sunsets, and recycling).


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McMasters and others already know that recycling is DOA in Savannah and probably in Chatham County if put to a popular vote. With only about 75% of voters in Chatham County over the poverty line, its those in the Green Cabal with "individual historic standing" with the politicians on city council that moved recycling from a lofty scrap heap to city-wide ordinance. ( And speaking of those 25% below the poverty level--will they be rolled on Ogeechee Road by city sanitation workers for their shopping carts and aluminum cans? Or maybe depending on what receptacle is decided on, scavenging aluminum cans will be made that much easier).

Whatever the case, I hope most of the citizens of Savannah and Chatham County will be satisfied with the results of the recycling program--I mean besides the significant and powerful people who already are.