ECUA Recycling Program Grows, Hundreds Of New North Escambia Customers

February 24, 2009

More than 1,500 new customers have signed up for ECUA residential waste service in North Escambia over the past two months.

ECUA took over 11,000 Allied Waste customers in North Escambia at the first of the year. Since then, over 1,500 new customers that did not use Allied have signed up for ECUA service.

The Emerald Coast Utilities Authority recycling program continues to grow exponentially each week. The first week of the program, ECUA picked up 36.71 tons of recyclable material. In just over a month, that number has increased to 83.17 tons per week.

About 30 percent of ECUA’s 73,000 sanitation customers — about 22,000 — have signed up for the recycling program. Requests for recycling service continue to come in at about 1,000 per week, according to District 5 ECUA Board Member Larry Walker. He said ECUA is now caught up on the delivery or recycling cans, with new requests being honored within about a week.

The math on the number of customers and the tons recycled mean that each customer is recycling an average of  about 7.5 pounds of plastics, paper and other recyclable materials each week.

To sign up for ECUA service, or to request the addition of recycling to your residential waste pickup, call ECUA at 476-0480 or email support@ecua.org.

If you have requested a recycling can more than seven days ago and it has not be delivered, contact Walker at 723-6094 or email lwalker@ecua.org.

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Written by William Reynolds · Filed Under News