Eureka Recycling Center & Hazardous Waste Facilities Expand Days of Service, CRV Buyback Center Decertified
This is a press release from Humboldt Waste Management Authority:
Effective Monday, October 5th Humboldt Waste Management Authority’s Eureka Recycling Center will resume recycling drop-off services 7 days a week, with the Hazardous Waste Facility resuming residential drop-off services 6 days a week. CRV Buyback services have been discontinued.
Customers are required to arrive with clean and dry recyclable materials or hazardous waste materials that are presorted prior to arrival, to wear face coverings and abide by the facility’s rules to maintain social distancing. Sanitizers are available for customer use. Presorting of materials will assist in the efficient placement of materials into bins or carts.
Eureka Recycling Center customers may drop off source separated recyclable materials (cardboard, glass, plastic, metal), used appliances, electronic wastes and televisions/screen devices Monday thru Saturday from 8 am until 4 pm, and Sundays 10 am until 4 pm.
Residential customers may resume drop-off at the Hazardous Waste Facility without appointments beginning Monday, October 5th on a first-come, first served basis. Customers may drop off hazardous materials Monday thru Saturday’s from 8 am until noon and from 1 pm until 3 pm but is closed from 12pm-1pm daily. Small business generated hazardous materials will continued to be accepted by appointment only. Call (707) 441-2005 if you have questions or to schedule a business appointment.
HWMA has offered CRV redemption services to the Eureka community since 2009. With the recent decertification of the CRV redemption centers in Fortuna, McKinleyville and Redway sites in late August, the Eureka Recycling Center facility does not have the physical capacity to manage CRV Buyback services for the entire county. HWMA requested that CalRecycle allow CRV buyback services by appointment in an effort to temporarily manage inbound customers and material. CalRecycle determined that appointments are not permissible and HWMA reluctantly submitted its notice of decertification.
HWMA will continue to work with our State representatives to identify potential remedies for CRV Buyback services. Our hope is that, with State assistance, we can aid the opening of one or more CRV redemption centers in local communities that are accessible and convenient so customers may redeem their containers for their CRV deposits.
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If the only way to redeem CRV is at some point in the future somewhere maybe hopefully somehow, it might be time to refuse to pay it.
Yes, that makes sense. Fairest idea or quit buying the products! I know the few dollars I get back will pay for a meal for me. I’m sure other seniors feel the same. We don’t get raises on our social security and in most cases it’s our only income.
Yes. Exactly. I have already written Congressman Jered Huffman about this issue, with no result. The CRV program appears to have become a windfall tax for California. Surprise, surprise.
Just stop buying items that the crv is charged. Put the pressure on the manufacturer and distributors to buy their crv products back.
I’ve seen so many machines in Oregon. You put your recycling in and it gives you a receipt to be redeemed at the store its in front of.
Forced to pay with no way of redemption….. Funny they can accept, I’m sure they are getting redemption money back from the state but we can’t……Is this just a Humboldt thing or is it a state thing? If we have no way of collecting back what they took why pay the redemption fee? Pretty sure that’s against the law!
Hambro operates a CRV back back center in Crescent City, open Wed-Sat. Strange that they can do it, but HSWA cannot.
Pretty sure , hwma is not required to staff a entire facility . That is between you and and the State. Sounds like they were doing the community a favor since 2009.thanks for your 10 plus years of providing this service for the community, also the eureka recycling center looks much cleaner now without c.r.v. easy drop off for metal and cardboard too.
HWMA was glad to do it prior to the pandemic because it was profitable. Now, it’s profitable cause the commodities market is in the dump, they want out. It’s understandable in a business standpoint. We as a community need to put the pressure on the manufacturer and distributors and stop buying their products until they provide a crv buyback option.
They ARE NOT. getting redemption money back from the state. That is the WHOLE problem. The recycling market has tanked. Redemption funds have to come out of operating costs creating large deficits that are unsustainable.
As far as I am aware this is just a Humboldt thing. Apparently you can drive to Crescent City and redeem your recyclables for money still. I cannot speak on other Counties but I do know people that have taken the drive to Crescent City just days ago.
Did you read the article chauncey?
Fairly recently Oregon started these:
https://www.bottledropcenters.com/
We have one in town here and I love it. It’s quick and most of the time you don’t even have to deal with one of the attendants. All the retailers/grocery stores have gotten rid of their machines, which broke down a lot anyway.
I can’t recommend them enough. Does California have anything similar at all?
I’ve never heard of something like that, and after reading their website, I’m not sure I’d consider using something like that either.
Signing up for an account? Government ID required? Paying for special bags which must be used? Must give cell phone number and receive text messages? A processing fee for every bag you drop? Arbitrary limit of 15 bags per quarter? 7-day wait? Having to withdraw funds from an account? etc…
This all sounds like intentionally making it far more complicated than it needs to be. Put in bottles, get cash. There really isn’t a reason for any steps more than that…
I don’t have an account. I just go in, shoot the cans and bottles into the machine myself, get a ticket and go to the cash machine in the facility and get my cash. I usually hold on to the cans until I have 100 or so.
If you have an account, all that stuff may apply. My step daughter has an account and she is up to something like 400.00 over the past year or so (teenage kids, her fella..it adds up). She likes that she can just drop them off and not deal with the cans and bottles herself.
Me, I like my money in my hot little hands right now. 🙂 And that is definitely an option in the Bottledrops.
Thing about OR taking recycling is you can’t crush the cans and bottles. The hand-fed machines have to read the bar codes on them. This takes up an enormous amount of extra space needed on our end to make the trip.
But if they aren’t even going to try to get buyback restarted then we all need to protest paying the CRV. Otherwise this is all going in the trash or worse, people are just going to dump it whereever they feel like it.
About the uncrushed cans. Oregon has been doing it that way for nearly 50 years. I guess I don’t know any other way, so I am used to it. But I don’t let it build up. A couple hundred cans will fill a couple of garbage bags, which I then save for the next time or reuse in some other way. I can recycle the cardboard from home (our trash service gives us a garbage can, a recycling bin and a big compost bin…but we have to recycle glass ourselves, though that isn’t so hard as we can take it to a couple of convenient locations and put then into a big dumpster type thing).
I also try to avoid plastics and glass as much as possible.
True, the other day I saw some pickup show up with the bed of the truck completely filled with cans still in their boxes (put back in, after empty). The guy spent a long time taking them out of their old cases right in the parking lot. I was thinking to myself “Dude, maybe you should come by a little more often…or lay off the Bud a bit”.
We have or had small recycling cents at certain grocery stores throughout southern California idk about northern & central though which sucks I have a bunch of recycles to turn in.
There is actually a law that says there MUST be a buy back facility. We need to sue someone I guess.
And recycle? Please, we know that less than 10% of plastic has ever been recycled. Stop bullshitting us please.
By law, stores that sell beverages are supposed to step up. State law says if there’s no recycle center within a half-mile of a beverage retailer, that store must take back your empties or pay $100 per day to the state.
I just googled this ?
Only in Ca. the RIP off state, never got my 5cents back any fucking way. Trump 2020 [edit]
It’s funny people think that Trump 2020 is the solution to everything and that he’s going to make things great for the country. But it’s been Trump 2016 maga for 4 years now and these same people complain about shit every single day. So if he hasn’t given you enough reason to shut up in the last 4 years, how’s another 4 years gonna change that? I don’t see how people fall for his shit. Like when he replays videos of riots to blame it on Dems but promises if he’s reelected he’s gonna “bring law and order to these people.” Hello dipshit, why wait til you’re reelected to fix something when you are the president RIGHT NOW!!!?? Fix it now!
Snort! I got a chuckle out of that.
Poor bicycle bums,cuts into fix money.
But they have stopped rummaging through my recycling bin on the curb..
I think that the state should discontinue crv program or it should be responsible for keeping a facility open in every city. I know these are crazy times but for some people it is a big deal.
i guess senior citizens can go get fucked too, huh?
read the rest of the comments, [edit]
HWMA should immediately lose their contract with the county. They already gt away wit refusing to accept most recyclables while profiting millions on us.
Hmmm. This means that CRV containers will likely go into the blue ‘recycling garbage’ cans.
Then they will be hauled to Willits. At that point the company will sort out the CRV stuff at the recycling plant.
Wonder… maybe $500 per day ???
Dunno.
Well it’s like this; if I have to pay CRV and not get that back, somebody is getting paid to take it. I’ll throw every bag into whatever recycling bin I find and they can pay for the extra help to sort it out on their time.
All my recycling is going straight in the trash and garbage is going in the blue bin. Don’t care anymore.
Here’s what I would like to know the answer to – since HWMA will allow folks to drop off any kinds of bottles (CRV included), but they are not paying anyone the redemption fee, what IS HWMA doing with all the CRV bottles they are collecting?
I find it hard to imagine they are going to let free $$ like that slip through their hands. Are they hauling them some place, as Bozo suggests, like Willits, and collecting the redemption?
Like I said RIP off Ca. Trump 202 [edit]
Hambro buy back in Crescent City offered to help them out. However they turned them down. They offered many different solutions however hwma refused all help they were offered and CHOSE to shut down. Hambro buyback is trying to figure out a way to come to humboldt. They have the means they just need a place to set up and the ok from city to do so. I was up at Hambro this Saturday and Chris who runs the buyback said they would love to set up here.
Thanks for the ray of hope Irene. To my cynical eyes this has never been about health, ‘super-spreader bottles’?!! Bottles and cans are presumed to have a large enough viral load to infect someone? Living on a fixed income, picking up roadside trash has supplemented my meagre income for over 15 years, and this CRV hiatus won’t stop me, if anything there are more “I don’t give a shite” types throwing out beer bottles and cans during this stressed out era. But c’mon, where is any elected official doing something about this?
if you see him again let him know I have a recycle crew when he gets here. he can hire new directions for his employees and not worry about liability or workers comp. I have the best recyclers in the county!!!
No CRV buyback is another slap in the face at people living in poverty.
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/california-announces-36-million-fine-against-cvs-121119.html
I’ve taken a few bags into the buyback recycling in the past and got as much as $50.00! They charge us the consumers for this to get us to recycle them. I would like my money back on these items because I’ve been charged! This needs to be addressed ASAP!
How can it be legal to charge a fee for a deposit and not somehow get it back to us. It’s our screwed up governor and f***** up California
City garbage is a mafia run business. Don’t believe it how did they get the contract with the city to force everybody to have recycling. We have to pay for that recycling. We can’t get away with not having a recycling bin. Which they take and get the money for the recycling.
https://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/bevcontainer/programinfo/faq
Hambro, in Crescent City, has been working with HWMA to come up with a solution to the Humboldt problem. Cal Recycle has made it too difficult and unprofitable for recycling centers to have the ability to adapt to changing markets. Cal Recycle collects the money and now doesn’t have to give it back to the consumer. A good gig if you can get it. Come on up to Crescent City. Beautiful drive and helpful crew.
Recology and HWMA are giving a presentation to Eureka City Council tomorrow night…there is an ability to watch remotely…it’ll explain everything…This is a lot more complex than people realize. It’ll be on community access channel 10.
The state is funding the OPENING of alternative location and operations CRV buyback centers, there are still openings in the program, but HMWA has obviously decided not to apply. HMWA are not serving the needs of the community. Perhaps we need to decertify all their operations and find another business that will meet the needs of the county.
https://www.recyclingtoday.com/article/san-mateo-county-opens-crv-takeback-recycling-sites/?fbclid=IwAR1IDfsLFhujM6oUGJtbRLLo_P3d2ed-sp7daiw2tV6hMNUnIxN49-ZslUM
I woke up at 4am pissed about this, Ryan Burns article on LOCO yesterday spelled out how us peasants shouldn’t “hold our breath”, or our recycling: ““At the end of the day, we need to tell the people of Humboldt that we are not gonna have CRV [California Redemption Value] buy-back in Humboldt County for at least 180 days,”.. grrr.