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New ECUA Sanitation and Recycling Programs Begins
June 1, 2010
Enhancements began Tuesday to the recycling and sanitation services offered by the Emerald Coast Utilities Authority.
The first change is the introduction of a bulk item collection to the recycling program. This service will allow existing recycling customers the ability to call-in and request a bulk pick-up of recyclable items once per month.
The pick-up will be made on the next recycling day following the request. It will include the pick-up of items such as tires, propane tanks, household electronics, appliances, batteries and large amounts of cardboard.
The second enhancement will be the Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) curbside collection program. This service will allow all ECUA residential sanitation customers to call-in and request a pick-up of HHW items once-per-month.
The collection will be made on the first Saturday of the month and will include the pick-up of HHW items such as pool chemicals, household chemicals, paints, used cooking grease, lawn and garden chemicals, and used oil, to name just a few. These materials will be collected by ECUA crews at the customer’s doorstep and transported to an ECUA collection site.
The ECUA Recycling Program debuted the week of January 5, 2009, as part of the regular residential sanitation service. This program is being utilized by 38,000 households — about 52 percent of ECUA customers.
For more information on the ECUA Recycling and Sanitation Programs, or to sign-up for the recycling program, visit the ECUA website at www.ecua.org or contact their customer service center at (850) 476-0480.
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3 Responses to “New ECUA Sanitation and Recycling Programs Begins”
“. . . . offered by the Emerald Coast Utilities Authority.”
Renaming it Emerald Coast Utilities Authority rather than Escambia County Utilities Authority made it look as if those of us not living on the coast were being excluded.
All well and good, we’re used to being ignored.
Still, what with the way things’re going, they may have to rename the organization, probably want to keep the ECUA, though, rather than repaint all the trucks and whatnot.
Emergency Coast? It is facing an oill slick problem, not that it affects ECUA
Empty Coast if the oil scares all the tourists away?
Emulsion Coast, oil and water mix?
Encased Coast, sheathed or coated? That could fit.
Encumbered Coast, as in debilitated, hampered or hindered?
Embittered Coast, fits how some feel right now.
Embarassed Coast, naw, too many others embarassed right now for that to stick out.
Emasculated?
Elegiac, sad?
Eggshell could get across the idea of delicate and easily harmed, but it also implies a color of white which . . .
Effluent or emission, dealing with discharge and bringing to mind the idea of sewage.
Educational Coast? You can see how it would fit
Ebony? naw, too red, not all that dark
Eat Crow Utilities Authority?
Economically Crippled Utilities Authority? just a thought
Eviscerated Coast, gutted?
Naw, it’ll probably all be over soon and we can go back to wondering why the coast should be emerald rather than some form of white which starts with an E or why the authority couldn’t be something for the whole county.
Sorry for the apostrophe typos in my previous comment. This would drive a journalist or English Teacher bonkers.
Kudos to ECUA. We applaud their efforts to help us be good steward’s of God’s earth by providing a means of recycling. ECUA is providing top notch service to it’s customers, as well. They make it easy for us to recycle and keep our home places tidy! I challenge all who are not taking advantage of the recycling to give it a try. It really is easy!