Solid Waste District recycling Christmas trees; Pickup schedule back on track for recyclables
By Jennifer Zartman Romano
Christmas wrappings and holiday gifts result in a lot of recyclable paper and with the bad weather in the past few days, recycling crews have been a little bogged down with pickups from last week.
Jorell Tucker, director of the Whitley County Solid Waste District, that handles recycling services for Whitley County, said that although things have been challenging in the past few days, he’s optimistic that all recyclables from last week will be picked up no later than Wednesday and that everything this week is on schedule. He requests that residents continue to keep their recyclable items in their containers at the curb until trucks arrive to pick them up.
“They had an extra truck in the area today and another one tomorrow,” Tucker said.
Tucker has heard from residents concerned that they had seen television reports of recycling not being picked up for two weeks, but he is quick not note the report is only for Allen County. Whitley County recycling is on schedule with the exception of holiday hours on Wednesday.
“They will not be working on Thursday, so everything on the following two days will be picked up a day later,” Tucker said. Thursday pickups will take place on Friday and Friday pickups will take place on Saturday.
Now that the holidays are over, the Whitley County Solid Waste District facility is already beginning to collect Christmas trees just inside the parking lot on South Line Street.
“Just drop them off here without decorations or tinsel,” Tucker said. “We just want the tree and that’s it.”
Tucker also asked that the trees not be bagged either.
There is no charge to recycle your Christmas tree and Tucker said they will continue collecting them until January 6.