Envirco

Due to Envirco’s vendor no longer accepting glass recycables, Envirco will be discontinuing the acceptance of glass at all drop-off area recycling locations beginning Saturday, July 1, 2017.  Envirco regrets this change is service.

Finally! A Payment Drop Box…customers have suggested we “get a drop box”. So…Envirco has installed a payment drop box at our office located at 906 Arkansaw Road, Baker, WV. Payment drop box is located beside the office entrance door, area is lit at night. No cash payments should be placed in the drop box. If service is scheduled to be terminated or already terminated, you must allow proper payment posting time for services to resume.

Thanks for your suggestions!

Ever wonder if you should throw that curly light bulb in the trash? Or, what should I do with the 12 buckets of paint from the storage shed?  Old batteries, where to put these?

Check out this link for answers to these questions:

http://www.state.wv.us/swmb/Admn/SpecialWaste/Index.htm

WV Governor, Earl Ray Tomblin ceremonially signed a new law cracking down on reckless driving around waste and recycling vehicles.  The bill (Senate Bill 378) was authored by State Senator Donald Cookman of Hampshire county and endorsed by the National Waste & Recycling Association.  The law REQUIRES WV drivers to slow down to 15 mph when passing a stopped waste or recycling vehicle.

Gov. Tomblin held the bill’s commemoration ceremony at the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office in Martinsburg in memory of local sanitation worker Jeremy Tabler, whose tragic death on the job in March 2013 inspired Sen. Cookman, his representative, to push for safety reforms.

“The ‘Slow Down to Get Around’ bill was a result of Jeremy Tabler’s tragic death. This legislation, which I refer to as ‘Tiffany’s Bill,’ would not have become law if it had not been for the perseverance and dedication of Tiffany Tabler, Jeremy’s widow, and their two daughters, Annaliese and Jewelia, as well as their attorney, Ron Harman,” Cookman said.

Tabler is survived by his wife and two young daughters, who were present at the bill signing.

For more information, check the link:https://wasterecycling.org/blog/west-virginia-governor-signs-law-requiring-cautious-driving-near-sanitation-trucks/

The frequency of sharp objects in solid waste and the potential for serious injury to not only the person “taking out the trash” and those picking up the trash is an increasing and dangerous hazard. 

For the safety of our employees and the ones “taking out the trash”, please take the following precautions when disposing of sharp objects that have the potential to injure others:

• Medical needles should be placed and stored in a hard plastic container, such as an empty laundry detergent bottle with lid/cap securely closed.  Please place this container inside a heavy, corrugated cardboard box and use duct tape to close box before placing with solid waste for collection.  Labeling box as “Sharps Enclosed” also cautions our employees to handle with care.
• Check with your doctor or medical supplier about disposal through their procedures and/or providers.
• Broken glass of any shape, size and quantity must be placed in a heavy, corrugated box and securely duct taped shut.  Use of contact/shelving paper can aid in not only picking up broken glass but provides safer handling when placing in box for disposal.  Labeling box as “Broken Glass” also cautions our employees to handle with care.
• Sharp plastic packaging poses the potential of ripping your bags and of cutting our employees.  Please wrap sharp plastics with duct tape before placing in trash bags or place in cardboard box, shut securely, for disposal.

Using common sense in the disposal of sharps and the awareness of potential hazards to others will help keep everyone injury free.