Wal-Mart’s decision to close its community recycling center for three months won’t leave its recyclers out of work.

Community Living Opportunities, an organization that runs the center and provides jobs and services for people with developmental disabilities, plans to have the 15 employees who work at Wal-Mart tackle community-service jobs in town.

While they will continue to work, it remains undecided whether Wal-Mart will continue to pay their wages, said Theo Hall, the center’s recycling coordinator. Those discussions are ongoing.

“Wal-Mart’s not making any money off of this,” Hall said of the recycling center. “We’re rarely in the green.”

Workers use the money to pay bills, shop for clothes and take care of other everyday responsibilities that many people take for granted, said Hall, who has been coordinator for six years.

“It’s a real job for them,” said Hall, who worked with Special Olympics as a football player at Pittsburg State. “This is a great program.”