Recycling Facility Won't Accept Freon
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
The KC Depot, the county's recycling facility, will not accept appliances that held or still contain freon.
The Kosciusko County Solid Waste Management District board decided Tuesday not to accept these units, although people do just drop them off.
Several private businesses remove freon and tag the appliances freon-free. Costs range in amounts from $35 to $100.
Salvage companies won't take untagged appliances.
The district does accept computers and televisions and charges a fee to take them.
District Executive Director Sue Studebaker thanked Avis Gunter for her service to the district. She is leaving the board as a county commissioner. Bob Conley will take her seat in January.
The board also:
• Requested a Winona Lake Town Council representative attend the meetings.
• Heard a Claypool recycling station will be able to receive paper and newspaper.
A station has been established in Pierceton's municipal parking lot.
Other drop-off locations are:
• Leesburg, at the south end of town on Ind. 15;
• Mentone, south of Ind. 25, west of Ind. 19 at the old Frank and Jerry's lot;
• Milford, south end of town on Ind. 15;
• North Webster, Lance's Supermarket parking lot;
• Silver Lake, one block west of Ind. 15 and one block south of Ind. 14;
• Syracuse, west of Arthur's Supermarket; and
• Warsaw, at 220 S. Union St.
The remote stations take aluminum (rinse cans well); cardboard (flatten. Do not recycle cardboard with food stains like pizza boxes); No. 1 and No. 2 plastic (rinse and remove lids and rings); newspaper, mixed paper and glossy magazines; brown, green and clear glass (rinse, remove caps and rings) and steel and tin cans (rinse before recycling. Remove the plastic cap and nozzle from aerosol cans).
The depot takes rechargeable, cadmium and lithium batteries as well as car batteries and back-up batteries for computers.
Citizens also can bring oil, oil filters, gasoline, kerosene, household chemicals, oil and latex paints, paint thinners, florescent tubes, fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides.
The depot also accepts syringes and other "sharps." Collection boxes are also at the Warsaw CVS and Mentone Pill box drug stores. Sharps must be in a hard plastic containers and taped shut.
Prescription drugs in pill form also may be dropped off at the depot. No liquids are accepted. The pills must be in the original container. They must be dropped off in person.
The depot is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Collection of certain items have a fee.
Board members are Brad Jackson, Ron Truex, Avis Gunter, John Kinsey, Ernie Wiggins and George Clemens. David Delp was absent.
Also attending this meeting were citizens' advisory committee members Darci Zolman and Janet Eckelbarger and commissioner-elect Bob Conley.
The next meeting is Jan. 16 at 11 a.m. [[In-content Ad]]
The KC Depot, the county's recycling facility, will not accept appliances that held or still contain freon.
The Kosciusko County Solid Waste Management District board decided Tuesday not to accept these units, although people do just drop them off.
Several private businesses remove freon and tag the appliances freon-free. Costs range in amounts from $35 to $100.
Salvage companies won't take untagged appliances.
The district does accept computers and televisions and charges a fee to take them.
District Executive Director Sue Studebaker thanked Avis Gunter for her service to the district. She is leaving the board as a county commissioner. Bob Conley will take her seat in January.
The board also:
• Requested a Winona Lake Town Council representative attend the meetings.
• Heard a Claypool recycling station will be able to receive paper and newspaper.
A station has been established in Pierceton's municipal parking lot.
Other drop-off locations are:
• Leesburg, at the south end of town on Ind. 15;
• Mentone, south of Ind. 25, west of Ind. 19 at the old Frank and Jerry's lot;
• Milford, south end of town on Ind. 15;
• North Webster, Lance's Supermarket parking lot;
• Silver Lake, one block west of Ind. 15 and one block south of Ind. 14;
• Syracuse, west of Arthur's Supermarket; and
• Warsaw, at 220 S. Union St.
The remote stations take aluminum (rinse cans well); cardboard (flatten. Do not recycle cardboard with food stains like pizza boxes); No. 1 and No. 2 plastic (rinse and remove lids and rings); newspaper, mixed paper and glossy magazines; brown, green and clear glass (rinse, remove caps and rings) and steel and tin cans (rinse before recycling. Remove the plastic cap and nozzle from aerosol cans).
The depot takes rechargeable, cadmium and lithium batteries as well as car batteries and back-up batteries for computers.
Citizens also can bring oil, oil filters, gasoline, kerosene, household chemicals, oil and latex paints, paint thinners, florescent tubes, fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides.
The depot also accepts syringes and other "sharps." Collection boxes are also at the Warsaw CVS and Mentone Pill box drug stores. Sharps must be in a hard plastic containers and taped shut.
Prescription drugs in pill form also may be dropped off at the depot. No liquids are accepted. The pills must be in the original container. They must be dropped off in person.
The depot is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Collection of certain items have a fee.
Board members are Brad Jackson, Ron Truex, Avis Gunter, John Kinsey, Ernie Wiggins and George Clemens. David Delp was absent.
Also attending this meeting were citizens' advisory committee members Darci Zolman and Janet Eckelbarger and commissioner-elect Bob Conley.
The next meeting is Jan. 16 at 11 a.m. [[In-content Ad]]