City of Eureka Launches Non-CRV Glass Recycling Program
This is a press release from the City of Eureka:
The City of Eureka is excited to announce a local solution to a global problem. The international recycling market has collapsed leaving states and municipalities changing the collection and allocation of recycled materials. Recycled materials which were previously shipped and sold to China are now stuck in the states with little alternatives for domestic recycling processing and sales.
The City of Eureka is launching a new local glass recycling program to address this very issue. Currently, glass containers are differentiated by CRV and non-CRV. CRV stands for California Redemption Value. CRV containers charge an automatic deposit at time of sale which is redeemable when turned back into a CRV collection location. Eureka residents should continue to bring their CRV glass to Humboldt Waste Management Authority (HWMA) for redemption or place into their Recology recycling totes. This new program is specifically for non-CRV glass.
The self-drop off program will have three bin locations spread across Eureka of which all are free and accessible 24/7. The locations include the Municipal Auditorium (1120 F Street), Highland Park (dead end of High Street off of McDonald Street), and the Adorni Center Public Parking Area (southeast corner of L and Waterfront Drive). Furthermore, this program will utilize a volunteer City Beautification Team by the UPLIFT Eureka program to service and empty the bins. The glass will be recycled by Mercer Fraser Company in road construction aggregate projects.
This new program is a creative and sustainable solution for our community. Local glass recycling will lessen the impact of shipping heavy materials out of the county. Instead, the material will become the bases of our local roads which lessens raw material consumption. Additionally, decreased transport of recycled materials to out of area processors reduces greenhouse gas emissions.
The City of Eureka continually strives to provide quality services to Eureka residents and looks forward to finding solutions to manage our local waste.
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This is a fantastic way to recycle glass, hope they can shred tires soon to add to the mix.
Now we need a local solution for the plastic China won’t take…
Outlaw most plastic items.
Yes! More rules and laws! By all means! If there’s anything California is sorely lacking it’s regulations.
Especially those pesky rubbermaid trash cans that don’t burn up in devastating fires.
hmm, most plastic items: where should we start? How about the numerous plastic items in vehicles. Don’t drive? Your bike has a few. Your shoes, skate board, roller skates or blades, surfboards, snowboards, skis, sunglasses, helmets and other body protection. The computer or phone or gadget you posted from is mostly all plastic. Are you wearing all organic natural fiber clothing? If not, guess what? Plastic. That’s right. All those moisture wicking adventure garments made of nylon, gore-tex, polyester etc, are plastic. Now, into the house. TV? Plastic. Refrigerator, just look inside. Kitchen and bathroom faucets have internal plastic parts that you will only know about if you try to fix them yourself. Countertops, unless made of stone, glass, wood, have plastic in them. Even the wood counters and cutting boards use a glue with some plastic derivative. The toilet has a few plastic parts also. Irrigation in your yard? I’ll bet it’s a plastic pvc (sorry to be redundant there: plastic pvc). No? How about your watering can? Or the hose itself. Do you grow or know anyone who does? Tell me there’s no plastic involved. Ha. Do you know anyone with failing body parts? Heart? A pace maker would have a lot of plastic. Contact lenses, mostly plastic. Know anyone who’s had a brain aneurysm and had the plastic tube with the inflatable plastic/rubber balloon on the end threaded up their body from the thigh to the brain? Do I need to say plastic? Ok, PLASTIC. I just saw a cover story in a local eco mag about the plastic waste of shotgun shells. I’m sure you, or anyone you know, don’t have one for home or garden protection.
OK, yes. A lot of these items can be made without plastic. But when they fail, replacing a metal or ceramic part becomes costly, if you can find the part. If you can’t, now the entire item (washing machine, stove, faucet, car…) is a throw away item. I am currently on a 40 year old stove having replaced just a few plastic parts; metal parts are next to non-existent. I’ve seen the new ones these days, lots of plastic. Shoo-Goo will extend the life of a pair of tennies or skate shoes two fold. Even dress shoes can benefit. How do you think I found out about the plastic parts in my faucets? Fixed them myself with plastic parts. I even ordered a few extras when I heard my model was being discontinued.
I by no means want to grow the Great Pacific Plastic Patch, but, the thing is not to outlaw plastic. It’s to educate and use wisely. The 3 Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
🕯Its about time. This whole area can become self sufficient if they would listen to real ideas and not the 🐃,,, . Thank you Oliver for that info. There are people that want to invest into the area,bring business and industry and independentous to the people. Without f🤬🤬king up it’s natural beauty and values.
Humboldt doesn’t recycle styrofoam. What’s the self sustaining solution to recycling that?
What about paper, not cardboard?
I’d like to see a bottle collective in which all the local breweries re-use bottles that are cleaned, labelled and re-filled without crushing and reforming bottles and shipping them long distances. It seems that Scotia, Samoa or Fairhaven could house such a bottle cleaning and re-labelling facility
Yes, I’d love to see something like that, too. Kind of like the old days when milk was delivered in milk bottles. Once empty, you’d wash out the bottle and put it back into the box for the milkman to pick up with his next delivery. It seems that so many products could be packaged in reusable glass containers and charged a deposit for return and reuse. I was in Germany this past summer and went to a couple wine festivals (which were outdoors in market squares). It was great because they charged a 2-Euro deposit on the glasses, and then when you returned the glasses you’d get your money back. I didn’t see any plastic, disposable cups being used. One of the problems with a bottle re-use program is that people do not clean out their containers, and they get sour and stinky. If people would take the time to wash them out, it would be a less messy endeavor.
I, too, remember the good old days of fresh, milk deliveries in glass bottles. That milk had a layer of cream on top! Nowadays I’m allergic to dairy and drink coconut milk.
Try the A2/A2 milk. The protien is digestible.
The Growler!
If I not mistaken, don’t quite a few kambucha companies do this also?
Essentially you pay a bottle deposit at the stores and return the bottles for the deposit back.
I’m in.
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
There’s a great returnable beer bottle program in Oregon. Several breweries are involved. A sophisticated bottle washer from Germany cleans the bottles.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/09/17/645548896/oregon-launches-first-statewide-refillable-bottle-system-in-u-s
Humboldt County with its numerous breweries is a natural for this. Cheaper recyclable bottles could be used for out-of-the-area sales, and the re-usable ones circulated over and over here.
I believe Fire and Glass had their beginnings with waste stream diversion.
I got lot of glass in but I’m to far away to help …
~this sounds good. But, if they can’t protect the air space above Eureka, supply potable, non-additives water, and repair and maintain the roads in Eureka – idk? I mean, it takes the City of Eureka TWELVE MONTHS to produce an annual financial report.
The above comments are more better, imho.
Good job! As far as plastic, not only has the recycling market collapsed, the petrochemical industry is investing to triple new plastic production over the next 10 years. Planet plastic. As everything dies off we can make plastic animals and plants so we feel good while we rot inside out.
Sounds great!
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