July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Tox-Away Day set Saturday (9/27/05)
District to host event at fairgrounds
By By Mike Snyder-
An annual opportunity to safely dispose of a variety of potentially hazardous household-type waste is coming up on Saturday.
Tox-Away Day, which is funded by the Jay County Solid Waste District, will be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Jay County Fairgrounds.
Members of the district’s board of director’s discussed the upcoming event at their monthly board meeting Monday afternoon.
Saturday’s Tox-Away Day will be the fourth such event sponsored by the JCSWD since its formation in 2002.
The event is targeted to the general public, but businesses, municipalities and schools may participate if they have made prior arrangements by calling district headquarters.
Among the most common items that may be disposed of in the event are paint, adhesives, unknown chemicals, fuel, automotive fluids, batteries, asbestos, refrigerators, air conditioners and other appliances and computer equipment.
Tires may also be disposed at the event. The first four auto, two truck or two tractor tires are free. Additional tires may be disposed of at a cost of $1.50 for each auto tire, $2.50 for each truck tire and $15 for each tractor tire.
Those dropping off items should enter the fairgrounds at the entrance off Morton Street near the Jay County 4-H Building. Traffic will be directed east on that entrance road to a point just east of the rabbit barn. Signs and personnel will direct traffic from that point.
For more information on the event, call district headquarters at (260) 729-5071.
The waste district is expected to pay approximately $20,000 to a company to collect and safely dispose of the hazardous items.
Saturday is also the semi-annual free dump day for Jay County residents at the Jay County Landfill. Residents may dump up to one pick-up truck load of trash at no cost from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
In other business Monday, board members Gerald Kirby, Bill Gibson, Gary Theurer, Milo Miller Jr. and Faron Parr agreed to keep the district tipping fee at $1.25 per ton.
The fee, which is collected on trash dumped in the Jay County Landfill, funds the district’s annual budget of more than $200,000.
The board lowered the fee one year ago at the request of Leon Leach, a district manager for landfill owner Waste Management of Indiana. Leach said at that time that the lower fee would help his company be more competitive when bidding for contracts.
There has been a slight increase in monthly volume at the landfill over the past 11 months since the board lowered the tipping fee from $1.50 per ton.
After approving claims of nearly $29,000 Monday, the district has a checking account balance of $125,429. The balance at the end of October 2004 was $131,816.75.
District director Kay Hayes reported by the district Citizens Advisory Committee asked that the fee not be lowered from its current level.
“I think we’re holding our own (in terms of the budget),” Hayes said.
“Without the landfill, we don’t exist. It’s to our benefit to keep them in business,” Kirby said.
In other business, the board:
•Heard Hayes report that a new drop-off recycling trailer will be in operation Saturday morning at Will’s Market in Redkey. There will now be a trailer in Redkey two Saturdays a month.
•Learned that the total bill from an Ohio company that ground up limbs and brush from January’s ice storm was $28,833.55. TTI Custom Wood Grind and Recycling chipped large piles of wood debris at a city lot on North Morton Street and most recently at a county site on county road 100 East between county roads 100 and 200 North.[[In-content Ad]]
Tox-Away Day, which is funded by the Jay County Solid Waste District, will be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Jay County Fairgrounds.
Members of the district’s board of director’s discussed the upcoming event at their monthly board meeting Monday afternoon.
Saturday’s Tox-Away Day will be the fourth such event sponsored by the JCSWD since its formation in 2002.
The event is targeted to the general public, but businesses, municipalities and schools may participate if they have made prior arrangements by calling district headquarters.
Among the most common items that may be disposed of in the event are paint, adhesives, unknown chemicals, fuel, automotive fluids, batteries, asbestos, refrigerators, air conditioners and other appliances and computer equipment.
Tires may also be disposed at the event. The first four auto, two truck or two tractor tires are free. Additional tires may be disposed of at a cost of $1.50 for each auto tire, $2.50 for each truck tire and $15 for each tractor tire.
Those dropping off items should enter the fairgrounds at the entrance off Morton Street near the Jay County 4-H Building. Traffic will be directed east on that entrance road to a point just east of the rabbit barn. Signs and personnel will direct traffic from that point.
For more information on the event, call district headquarters at (260) 729-5071.
The waste district is expected to pay approximately $20,000 to a company to collect and safely dispose of the hazardous items.
Saturday is also the semi-annual free dump day for Jay County residents at the Jay County Landfill. Residents may dump up to one pick-up truck load of trash at no cost from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
In other business Monday, board members Gerald Kirby, Bill Gibson, Gary Theurer, Milo Miller Jr. and Faron Parr agreed to keep the district tipping fee at $1.25 per ton.
The fee, which is collected on trash dumped in the Jay County Landfill, funds the district’s annual budget of more than $200,000.
The board lowered the fee one year ago at the request of Leon Leach, a district manager for landfill owner Waste Management of Indiana. Leach said at that time that the lower fee would help his company be more competitive when bidding for contracts.
There has been a slight increase in monthly volume at the landfill over the past 11 months since the board lowered the tipping fee from $1.50 per ton.
After approving claims of nearly $29,000 Monday, the district has a checking account balance of $125,429. The balance at the end of October 2004 was $131,816.75.
District director Kay Hayes reported by the district Citizens Advisory Committee asked that the fee not be lowered from its current level.
“I think we’re holding our own (in terms of the budget),” Hayes said.
“Without the landfill, we don’t exist. It’s to our benefit to keep them in business,” Kirby said.
In other business, the board:
•Heard Hayes report that a new drop-off recycling trailer will be in operation Saturday morning at Will’s Market in Redkey. There will now be a trailer in Redkey two Saturdays a month.
•Learned that the total bill from an Ohio company that ground up limbs and brush from January’s ice storm was $28,833.55. TTI Custom Wood Grind and Recycling chipped large piles of wood debris at a city lot on North Morton Street and most recently at a county site on county road 100 East between county roads 100 and 200 North.[[In-content Ad]]
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