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Showing posts with label Enviro Solid Waste Man Recycling. Show all posts
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Friday, June 5, 2015

Carroll County Md Shredding and hazardous materials event slated for June 6, 2015

Carroll County Md Shredding and hazardous materials event slated for June 6, 2015 http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2015/06/carroll-county-md-shredding-and.html

According to a press release from Maria Myers, Recycling Manager Carroll County Department of Public Works, Bureau of Solid Waste, Carroll County has scheduled a time when Carroll County citizens may have personal documents shred and dispose of household hazardous waste.

The event is scheduled for June 6, 2015 from 8 a.m. until 12 noon.

May 21, 2015 – A Household Hazardous Waste Spring Cleanup and Shredding Event is being sponsored by the Carroll County Government Recycling Operations.

The event will take place on Saturday, June 6th at the Carroll County Vehicle Maintenance Facility, 1250 Meadow Branch Road, Westminster (Off Md. Rte. 97, north of Westminster, past Meadow Branch Road to Old Meadow Branch Road.)

Carroll County residents can drop off dangerous household items from 8 a.m. until 12 noon and shred sensitive documents from 8 a.m. until 12 noon or until truck is full, whichever comes first.

Items ACCEPTED at the household hazardous waste drop-off area include: gasoline or gas/oil mix, kerosene, oil-based paints and thinners, solvents, stains, sealants, pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, photographic and pool chemicals, household cleaners, compact fluorescent light bulbs, fluorescent light tubes, nickel-cadmium and NIMH batteries.

Items NOT ACCEPTED include: latex paint (dispose this with household trash after adding an absorbent agent such as cat litter, sand, mulch or shredded paper.)

Medications (unused and expired medications can be taken to the following police stations: Westminster, Taneytown, Sykesville, N.E. Greenmount; they do not accept syringes.)

Rechargeable batteries, household batteries, explosives, ammunition, fireworks, medical and biohazard waste, radioactive material, compressed gas tanks and cylinders, asbestos, items from commercial and industrial businesses or farms, vehicle batteries, motor oil, antifreeze, (vehicle batteries, motor oil and antifreeze accepted year round at Northern Landfill Recycling Center, 1400 Baltimore Boulevard, Westminster; Monday through Friday 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Saturday 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.)

Shredding is Residential only; no businesses. Items ACCEPTED include: invoices, bank statements, personal records, lease balance sheets, audit reports, credit reports, checks, medical reports.

For details, call Carroll County Government Recycling Operations at 410-386-2035 or the Northern Landfill at 410-386-4550. Maria Myers, Recycling Manager Carroll County Department of Public Works, Bureau of Solid Waste

410-386-2035 www.recyclecarroll.org
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Vote for your favorite decorated recycling bin “Art Bin” at the Carroll County MD Office Building in Westminster MD


Vote for your favorite decorated recycling bin “Art Bin” at the Carroll County MD Office Building in Westminster MD http://tinyurl.com/765qq7j

November 7, 2011 - November 15th is “America Recycles Day”, so to celebrate the Carroll County Government Recycling Office is hosting an “Art Carts” Contest through November 15th in the lobby of the Carroll County Government Office Building, 225 N. Center Street, Westminster, Maryland.

Don’t miss your chance to vote for your favorite recycling bin decorated by local artists.

The winner will be determined on November 15th and posted thereafter. Be sure to check if your favorite won!

The event was planned to continue awareness of recycling in a fun, creative way.

The “Art Bin” artists include:
Amber Maurer
Becky Johnson
Corey Heck
George Maurer
Hampstead Elementary School
Kevin Dayhoff
Ryan Burns – Energy Savers of America
Susan Williamson – Art Council
Vicky Stata-Bauer
Westminster West Middle School
Winters Mill High School National Art Honor Society

The artists who participated will be recognized on America Recycles Day November 15, 2011.

For more information, contact Maria Myers, Carroll County Government Recycling Manager at 410-386-2035. www.recyclecarroll.org


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“Art Carts” Carroll Co. Md. Office Building, Westminster Md. October 28, 2011



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Monday, November 7, 2011

Vote for your favorite decorated recycling bin “Art Bin”



Vote for your favorite decorated recycling bin “Art Bin” at the Carroll County MD Office Building in Westminster MD

November 7, 2011 - November 15th is “America Recycles Day”, so to celebrate the Carroll County Government Recycling Office is hosting an “Art Carts” Contest through November 15th in the lobby of the Carroll County Government Office Building, 225 N. Center Street, Westminster, Maryland.

Don’t miss your chance to vote for your favorite recycling bin decorated by local artists.

The winner will be determined on November 15th and posted thereafter. Be sure to check if your favorite won!

The event was planned to continue awareness of recycling in a fun, creative way.

The “Art Bin” artists include:

Amber Maurer
Becky Johnson
Corey Heck
George Maurer
Hampstead Elementary School
Kevin Dayhoff
Ryan Burns – Energy Savers of America
Susan Williamson – Art Council
Vicky Stata-Bauer
Westminster West Middle School
Winters Mill High School National Art Honor Society

The artists who participated will be recognized on America Recycles Day November 15, 2011.

For more information, contact Maria Myers, Carroll County Government Recycling Manager at 410-386-2035. www.recyclecarroll.org


[20111107 Vote for your favorite decorated recycling bin] [20111107 Vote art-carts11-7-11.pdf]




“Art Carts” Carroll Co. Md. Office Building, Westminster Md. October 28, 2011




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For more information on the 2011 Fall Maryland Municipal
League’s Fall Legislative Conference at the Cambridge Maryland Hyatt Regency
Chesapeake Bay, including a “Complete 2011 Fall Conference Information (.pdf)”
packet, visit the MML website at www.mdmunicipal.org.


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Sunday, May 1, 2011

Anchorage Daily News: Someone else's discarded paint can be on your walls - by MIKE DUNHAM


Someone else's discarded paint can be on your walls

RECYCLING: Performance artists prove you can cheaply redecorate.



Published: April 30th, 2011

MARC LESTER / Anchorage Daily News


John Perez, a technician at the hazardous waste facility at the Anchorage Landfill, collects discarded latex and water-based paint. Drums of that paint will be solidified with bentonite before being disposed of in the landfill. The hazardous waste facility also operates a paint reuse program there and at the Central Transfer Station in http://www.adn.com/2011/04/29/1837267/someone-elses-discarded-paint.html

Charles Oakley and Jorge C. Bailey are "spray can artists." 

You may have seen them at the Saturday Market, Alaska State Fair, Three Barons Fair and other venues. In what they describe as "performances," they create detailed pictures of mountains, whales, guitars, planets and such -- all in roughly eight minutes.

And they do most of it with paint that someone else has thrown away.

"About 60 percent of our art uses recycled paint," said Bailey.

The artists appreciate the eco-friendly aspect of their medium. And they like the fact that they get it for free through the Municipality of Anchorage Hazardous Waste Reuse Program.

So can anyone else.

The program, contracted to Emerald Alaska, a branch of Seattle-based Emerald Services, gives away orphaned paint and more at the Anchorage Regional Landfill near Eagle River and the Central Transfer Station near the Old Seward Highway and International Airport Road.



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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Soundtrack Op-ed: “Waste Not! – Carroll” speaks out on MGA incinerator legislation



Soundtrack Op-ed: Don West, co-founder of “Waste Not! – Carroll” speaks out on Maryland General Assembly incinerator legislation

February 14, 2010
Editor,

On Saturday, February 13, 2010, the Carroll County Times Opinion Page gave Senate Bill 228 a “thumbs down”. The bill, sponsored by Senator Alex Mooney, R – District 3 (Frederick and Washington Counties), prohibits the Maryland Department of the Environment from issuing a permit for the construction of an incinerator unless certain conditions are met.

Included in those conditions are that the incinerator is located in an area zoned for heavy industrial activity and that the site is at least 3 miles from a church, school, park, hospital or residential dwelling.

The CC Times asserts that Mooney was disingenuous in offering the legislation. Yet, Senator Mooney states he has received thousands of e-mails from his constituents in opposition to the Waste to Energy (WTE) incinerator that is proposed in his district. Rather than disingenuous, I view his legislation as an example of a senator responding to the needs and desires of those he serves.

The same column accuses Mooney of political posturing in an election year. That charge is easy enough to refute – Senator Mooney introduced a similar bill in last year’s legislative session. Last year was not an election year for County Commissioners in either Frederick or Carroll Counties.

Speaking of politicizing the issue, our own Commissioner Michael Zimmer ventured to Annapolis to testify against the same bill last week. He said he wants to make sure that Carroll County has an opportunity to reap the same benefits of WTE incineration as Baltimore City and Montgomery and Harford County. After examining this issue in some detail, I’m wondering what benefits Commissioner Zimmer has in mind?

Perhaps it’s all the money to be spent? With current projected construction costs upwards of $600,000,000, plus the financing and the anticipated operating expenses for the life span of the incinerator, we are facing a total cost to taxpayers in Carroll and Frederick in excess of 2 billion dollars!

Given current budgetary problems, I don’t see how anyone would view an expenditure of this magnitude a ‘benefit’. If you are interested in how bad it can get, look to Harrisburg, PA, where the city is nearly bankrupt following a botched upgrade to their incinerator.

Another ‘benefit’ of WTE incineration that proponents like to cite is the electrical energy the facility will generate. What they don’t say is that the incinerator is in reality a poor source of power, generating only about 1/10 of the electricity of a typical electrical plant. Also, any power generated goes first to the operation of the facility. Then Frederick County, as majority partner, gets second priority for the power.

Finally, Carroll County can get what’s left, providing we pay for it. That’s right, we will pay for the electricity generated by burning the trash that we pay to have burned in the incinerator that we are paying for! At the Dickerson facility in Montgomery County, financial records show that money from the sale of electricity doesn’t even offset service on the bonds issued for the initial construction of that incinerator; operating costs are borne by the residents and taxpayers.

In fact, if you compare the energy saved by recycling or composting waste destined for the incinerator versus the energy provided from its combustion, incineration is an enormous Waste of Energy!

Proponents of the incinerator would like you to think that with an incinerator burning our trash, we will no longer need landfills. This is false. First of all, as much as 20 – 25% of our solid waste can’t be burned. Most yard waste and construction & demolition refuse are two examples - other disposal methods will need to be used.

Plus the residual ash from the incinerator will need to be dealt with. Some propose that using the ash as a daily cover at the landfill is appealing. Montgomery County, however, pays to haul its ash to Virginia, where it is handled as a hazardous waste, at an additional cost of several million dollars per year. I’m not seeing any great benefit there, either.

Finally, proponents like to say that emissions from the Waste to Energy incinerator will be closely monitored. Carroll and Frederick’s agreement allows for the monitoring of 12 regulated emissions. Unfortunately, a recent report from the MDE for the Harford County incinerator identified nearly 200 toxins released! If that’s the level of monitoring we can expect at our proposed incinerator, I don’t think I would want my family to live 30 miles from such a facility.

An editorial in the CCT’s the following day accuses Senator Mooney of a “Not In My Backyard” motivation for proposing his legislation. Superficially, I can see where that could be argued, except that the adoption of his bill would mean that nobody in Maryland would have an incinerator within 3 miles of their home, school or church.

Perhaps it’s more accurately portrayed as NIABY, “ Not In Anybody’s Backyard”. For that, Mooney’s attempt at regulating future incinerator locations should be applauded, not ridiculed.

Some may view Senator Mooney’s legislation as an intrusion of state government into a local issue. However, when our local elected officials ignore the views of their constituents, and more importantly, the facts and ramifications of their decisions, seeking the assistance of another level of our government is our right and obligation.

Don H. West
Westminster

The writer is a co-founder of Waste Not! - Carroll
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