Three employees sort items on a conveyor belt at the Ohio Recycling Center in Chickasaw on Tuesday. Mercer County officials recently learned that local residents and companies recycle more of their trash than any other county across the state.

We're green! Mercer County residents recycle more and discard less trash than any other county in the state of Ohio, according to the latest figures from the Ohio EPA. "I knew we were doing well," Carla Buening of the Mercer . . .