Oneida County Land Fill

So, are we recycling, or not?!
Some readers may dimly recall this column. Lo tho’ it has been a couple of years, Bart’s gonna give it a try again, so here we go!

One of the beauties of my job is that folks let you know right away “if something doesn’t look right.” Take for example, the recent transition for the Town of Pine Lake from monthly to weekly collection of recyclables. The Town’s Contractor, Waste Management, collects recyclables and garbage all in the same truck. Now the first couple of weeks of this new system, there wasn’t much left of Bart’s ears as more than a few folks called, stopped me on the street, at church, in restrooms and where ever to complain about the “recyclables being thrown out with the garbage”. The same thing happened a couple years earlier when Rhinelander went to the same recycling collection system.

I am happy to report that these recyclables are in deed being recycled. The collection truck actually has three separate bins in it’s loader bucket and three separate compartments inside the truck. The three compartments are for garbage, mixed paper (including cardboard) and mixed containers. As a matter of fact, just about all of our Garbage Haulers in Oneida County now collect RESIDENTIAL recyclables in what is referred to as a 2 stream system. The 2 streams include: mixed containers including glass bottles/jars, tin and aluminum cans and plastic milk jugs, pop bottles and soap bottles; and mixed paper including magazines, catalogues, newspaper, cardboard, office paper and junk mail.

And just how am I so certain that these items are being recycled? Because, we do most of the sorting and processing right here at the Oneida County Solid Waste Site. The big gray building that you pass on the way into the scale processes mixed recyclables from Garbage Haulers for a fee of $10 per ton. The facility is staffed with folks from Headwaters, Inc, of Rhinelander and some gentlemen from Camp McNaughton working two or three days a week. Onyx of Minocqua also collects/processes many of their recyclables in a similar manner.

I do appreciate folks letting me know about their concerns on this, and hope that this article will ease their concerns… as well as give me a little more privacy while using the restroom!

STORY ARCHIVES

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Demolition Man	Demolition Man, demolished
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Haunting Hazardous Waste	Hey Buddy, Got a Landfill?
Historical Composting	How’d you like your asbestos?
If at first, second	If you have a hard time reading this, perhaps you should recycle your glasses!
It’s spring time, do you feel… hazardous?	Just sign on the dotted line……
Mercury My…Oh My	Mommas don’t let your babies grow up to be junk men
Oneida County Compost, the compost with guts! And, probably for sale this spring!	Paper Recycling Exceeds 50%!
Perennial Plastics Problems	School’s in
So, are we recycling, or not?!	Spinning Recycling Percentages
The Empire Strikes Garbage!	The Good Stuff
Tis’ a sad, sad day…..Bob was right?!!!	We’re not only still recycling, but it’s easier?!
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Governor’s Task Force on Waste Materials Recovery and Disposal: Part II Electronics, We’ll all be in the same boat, does anybody know the words to Kumbaya?	If ya’ can’t stand the heat, get out of the compost pile!
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The Recycling Inspector Cometh…	Thinking Globally, Acting Locally

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