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ECUA To Hold Recycling Facility Kick-Off Event
August 11, 2016
The Emerald Coast Utilities Authority Board, or ECUA, and Escambia County Board of County Commissioners will hold a kick-off ceremony to mark the opening of the ECUA’s Interim Materials Recycling Facility, or IMRF, on August 22 at 9:30 a.m. The event will take place at the facility, which is located at the Escambia County Perdido Landfill at 13009 Beulah Road in Cantonment.
This $10.6 million project was initiated to offer a long-term, regional recycling solution for our community, while at the same time, to assist Escambia County in reaching its state-mandated 75 percent recycling goal.
On February 12, ECUA broke ground for the IMRF, which encompasses a 53,460 square-foot fabric building with recycling equipment that is expected to process up to 165 tons of materials per day.
The event will be attended by the ECUA Board members, county commissioners from Escambia, Santa Rosa and Okaloosa counties, and city council members from municipalities within the tri-county area. In addition, representatives from the IMRF’s planning, engineering and construction team will also be in attendance.
ECUA spokesperson Natalie Bowers said early September will be a “soft start” for the facility when ECUA will begin running some materials through the equipment. She said September 26 is the best date currently available for full operation.
Pictured: The February 12 ground breaking for a recycling facility at the Perdido Landfill. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
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2 Responses to “ECUA To Hold Recycling Facility Kick-Off Event”
If it all goes into one truck, there’s charge to separate, there’s charges for everything in life. I’m so glad for ECUA. It’s got to help to dispose of trash, garbage, whatever instead of always filling up the ground with cans, plastics, and only God know what. Not all of the things that are put into garbage cans is good for the land or water.
Meanwhile, the ECUA is and has been for a year+ picking up your recycling can and hauling the contents straight to the dump and burying it with the rest of the garbage. I can’t find anybody that can make sense of playing follow the leader with two trucks, and two drivers on each route to pick up, with the loads going to the exact same destination. Anybody that is just a little familiar with vehicle maintenance costs has to know that all those extra miles on a whole fleet of big trucks has to have cost the rate payers a small fortune. But, I guess you can’t expect better from an ECUA Board that charges more in Escambia County for less service than they provide in Santa Rosa County