ARC 599 Class Notes 09.22.11
09.22.11Field Trip to the LUFCG Recycling Center:
360 Thompson Road.
Lexington, KY 40508
- Esther Moberly: Waste Management Program Specialist.
LFUCG Plant tour:
- Landfill waste transfer station (outside of
Lexington).
- M&M charges residents $7.00.month to recycle,
then the LFUCG RC pays them AGAIN!
- Residential property tax covers waste.
- Herbie (garbage), Rosie (recycling), Lenny (yard waste).
- New Program: Certain neighborhoods put food in their
Lenny for recycling - food waste - Grubby (compost
bin in yard.)
- Yard - composting facility near Clark County -
becomes mulch (4) times annually - free mulch
given out to the community.
- $3.5 million in new equipment at the LFUCG in
2009. Can now accept glass with everything else,
(single stream.)
- Plastic bottles: water, juice, soda, milk, detergent,
bleach.
- Gas: trucking materials around.
- Material through the facility: 20,000 tons in
2009 = $1.6 million in revenue. 25,000 tons in
2010 = $2.4 million in revenue.
- Other recycling companies in the area :
Central Kentucky Fiber Resources, LLC,
Goodwill, Wise Recycling (metal), e-Waste
Recycling company on Versailles Road.
- Glass is sent to Atlanta, GA.
- Plastic bottles sent to Atlanta, GA to multiple
carpet companies.
- Croix, Alabama - soup cans recycled for steel.
- Novelis: World's largest aluminum can recycler:
Berea, Kentucky.
http://www.novelis.com/en-us/Pages/home.aspx
- Phone books - used for building insulation?
- Plastic bags: stock pile/bale until enough accumulates
to make it worth shipping.
- U.S. corporate chain stores with recycling programs:
Walmart, Lowe's, Home Depot, Kroger.
- LFUCG looking to expand to have commercial
and residential recycling capability.
- Toyota is asking suppliers to use alternatives to wood
pallets.
- Lexington's landfill is for construction and demolition
debris only - LFUCG is implementing a construction
material recycling center.
- CSTS: Convenience Center Transfer Station.
- Goodwill's unusable clothes used as building
insulation? Currently they send clothes to a company
that makes mechanic's rags.
- Toyota: seat covers/car upholstery recycled.
- "Film": plastic wraps, bags, sheeting, potato chip bags,
shower curtains.
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