Waste Management has begun to adjust its recycling center hours to accommodate a new influx of Juneau’s curbside recycling.
“There will be interruption of service on Tuesdays and Wednesdays,” Eric Vance, manager of Waste Management in Juneau said.
Arrow Refuse completed its first collection of comingled recycling and delivery to Waste Management’s recycle center at 5600 Tonsgard in Lemon Creek. Arrow is scheduled to deliver its recycling to Waste Management, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Vance said Waste Management didn’t yet know the affects of Arrow’s twice-a-week deliveries on its operations.
“We’re looking at all of our options at this point,” Vance said. “With a new commodity, we have a limited amount of space and we are trying to make it work for everybody.”
Arrow’s first collection and delivery of recycling went well, said Matt Dull, manager of Arrow Refuse in Juneau.
“It went really smoothly,” Dull said. “Pretty seamless, pretty transparent. We were probably in and out of there faster than the average recycling public.”
There was little interruption to recyclers dropping off source-separated materials, he said.
Dull had praise for his recycling customers. “The waste stream was very clean,” Dull said. “The public did an excellent job.” Dull said that at this point, Arrow plans to give Waste Management around 15 to 20 minutes warning before delivery.
Eric Vance of Waste Management said the recycling area will be coned off during Arrow’s deliveries Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
• Contact reporter Russell Stigall at 523-2276 or at russell.stigall@juneauempire.com.
Comments (5)
Add commentIf it went really smoothly
If it went really smoothly and recyclers were nit interrupted, why are they closing to the public two more days out of the week?
It went smoothly for me.
Yeah, they were closed two more days out of the week but... somebody is now coming to my street and taking my recycling to Lemon Creek. I am glad that I never have to go to the recycling center again. I think recycling is important too. Considering we have curbside recycling now, why does anybody want to go to the recycling center now?
Am I missing something?
Hiker, you are missing something
You should have a stamp card for every time you go to the recycle center. It takes about 20 stamps, then you get a free pick-up truck dump run. Well worth the effort, and you feel good about recycling all those times.
I currently have one full stamp card...now I need to finish my spring cleaning for my free dump run. And I have half of another card already done for my spring cleaning for next year.
Understood.
That makes sense bigtall. I have been known to miss an important point once in a while. That's why I asked.
dump card
Just hope you dont get the old lady counting your stamps! I showed up half hour before closing on a sat after spending all day spring cleaning. I went to use my filled punch card for using the recylce center and that old hag denied me with a smug smile because two of the stamps were upside down. I counted them when i got home and there were 22 stamps on the card. I was late for work the following monday because I had to come back to unload my truck before headin in to work. Thanks old lady, you know who you are. The younger girls that work there said that you take pride in screwing over your customers like that when I explained what happened.