Beyond Trash: What to know about Alachua County’s recycling program
January 7, 2024
Press release from Alachua County
ALACHUA COUNTY, Fla. – Recently, Alachua County Public Information Officer Andrew Caplan visited the Leveda Brown Environmental Park and Transfer Station to gain a deep understanding of the County’s Department of Solid Waste and Resource Recovery.
The department has been a leading example throughout North Central Florida on how waste can be managed, taking in close to 775 tons of trash daily and recycling about 45 tons of other products from homes and businesses. The park and transfer station are also home to the hazardous waste division that collects environmentally harmful chemicals and equipment from nine other surrounding counties. So where does it all go?
And with each printing, the Sun gets thinner and has a shorter publication run.
This is not a Sun story.
Wow! Way to go Leveda Brown. What an honour to have a dump named after you.
Read the story. It is not a dump or landfill. Mrs. Brown was very proud to have this essential transfer station named after her. Perhaps one day you’ll have something named after you.
A smart community like ours should be on top of the latest best practices. Hopefully.
The folks at Leveda Brown are helpful but beware if you bring them used engine oil in a container you want to keep.
I don’t know about the Leveda Brown center, but any of the rural waste collection sites has a big container you empty the oil into. Then, you can take your container home.
Wow one visit to the dump by Marky’s lacky and he is an expert on the subject. Used to take a lot of study to be an expert, guess now you can get a PhD in ten minutes if you’re on the county payroll. Who knew?
What an odd comment. He went and interviewed experts and shared what he learned. Seems as though you have a need to be snarky. At least try to be clever.
I’ll add my hobbyhorse complaint: Gainesville will pick up abandoned refrigerators on the curbside, but they won’t pick up abandoned dehumidifiers, which use far less of the same refrigerant technology that refrigerators do.
We had to pay extra (beyond the usual monthly GRU charges) to responsibly leave our old tiny dehumidifier at the LVBcenter, when GNV waste managment would have taken away a larger curbside fridge without cost. Something is out of wack here.
Try to be appreciative of the hard working dude’s who pick up your trash in all types of weather conditions.
I said nothing disrespectful about the hardworking dudes who deal with the curbside waste. I was addressing the dumbfaces at the top who don’t understand that a dehumidifier is a small refrigerator.
Beyond Trash: What to know about Alachua County’s governing body
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Tried to throw out a beeping jet ski and dude at the front told me I have to give him the trailer if I want to dump the ski. Needless to say trailer is in my garage and the ski is beeping in the woods somewhere.
(Don’t worry I kept the battery and it’s bone dry on oil, birds are safe)
They should be paying us for our recyclables at curbside and giving us a credit on our utility bills for them. It’s all a commodity! How much are they getting for the plastic, paper, glass, aluminum, tin, etc? Trash is big business!!!
Recycling costs money mostly labor sorting it there is no money in number 3-7 plastic little in the number 1-2 and nobody is buying glass you have to pay asphalt/ concrete places to take e it because sand is cheaper. That’s why others like clay county don’t recycle glass anymore.
Better question is how much do the homeless contribute?
Visit areas where there is a proliferation of homeless and you’ll also see a proliferation in the amount of trash and waste. The area downtown around the Admin Building and courthouses are a prime example. Around Pop-a-Top, downtown bars and entrances of other county offices are but others.
You would think that people wouldn’t piss and crap where they eat and sleep but many of the homeless population could care less, most dogs won’t even do that. They get their plates of food and clothes and discard what they don’t want for county and city employees to clean up because they’re unappreciative and don’t care.
Want to save the planet? Stop feeding the cats and the waste at Leveda Brown may decrease.
AND JESUS SAITH “Screw the poor people, let’s just get rid of them”
If the country could secure a public/private partnership that paid homeless people like $15 to fill a bag with trash and bring it to a receptacle, we could probably solve the litter issue pretty quick. People turn this town upside down on game days for five cents a can; plus some lefty enviro-social group could probably come up with some Biden money to make it happen.
Unless they have a local buyer for all that chopped and baled refuse, it is going to a landfill near you.
The Chinese stopped buying our scrap a few years ago which is where a large majority of the metals and paper went.
Buy the way, while on the county commission, Brown is the very reason Alachua county has no industry clean or otherwise.
If it didn’t meet her strict requirements it didn’t get approved. Marion county said yes to them.