Jacksonville recycling pick-ups on hold starting next week; 14 self service-stations opening

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Duval County residents who privation to recycle volition person to instrumentality matters into their ain hands starting adjacent week.

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry connected Monday said staffing shortages are forcing the metropolis to enactment recycling services connected clasp temporarily truthful collectors tin absorption connected the trash that has been piling up successful neighborhoods crossed the city.

“We’re prioritizing garbage and gait discarded due to the fact that they airs a precocious hazard to the sanitation, wellness and information of our neighborhoods,” Curry said.

Curbside recycling collections volition halt connected Oct. 4.

Also starting adjacent Monday, 14 recycling drop-off sites volition unfastened passim the metropolis wherever residents tin bring their items for collection. The sites volition beryllium unfastened Monday done Sunday from sunrise to sunset. There is nary cost.

Map of 14 sites wherever residents tin driblet disconnected recycling.

Curry said the determination comes aft his medication has received hundreds of telephone calls and emails astir delays successful discarded collection.

“Our citizens are understandably upset. They’re upset due to the fact that this is simply a basal work that is paid for by their taxes, and it’s not outrageous to expect a work that you wage for. I recognize that frustration,” Curry said. “This is an contented fueled by labour shortages, and it’s thing that is happening crossed the country, not conscionable present successful Jacksonville.”

It was not instantly wide erstwhile recycling volition resume, but Curry said it volition beryllium backmost “as soon arsenic possible.”

Residents connected the Westside were not blessed with the mayor’s announcement.

“I deliberation it’s a clump of **** ****,” Jeff Walker said. “I’m not that blessed astir it due to the fact that if it was the different mode astir they would beryllium trying to complaint us.”

Walker is not alone. His neighbors Jeanette and Julio Torras said they are fans of recycling and this is simply a measurement backward.

But don’t expect immoderate refund connected your $152 garbage fee.

The metropolis said it is not making immoderate nett disconnected of recycling. In fact, it is costing the metropolis to bash it.

“There volition beryllium nary refunds of the fees. So, you wage $152 a year, $12.67 a month, divided into 4 antithetic services. So, if we broke that down it’ll astir apt beryllium $1, $2. That’s not worthy the insubstantial that we’re going to people it on, and that’s astir apt what is going to be,” said Will Williams, Chief of the Jacksonville Solid Waste Division.

Jacksonville has limits connected the magnitude of trash you tin acceptable out. The politician says you tin usage the recycling bins to enactment retired connected the curb with your regular waste. Staff said determination is plentifulness of country for the further discarded which is present going to beryllium buried and not recycled.

At Tuesday night’s metropolis assembly meeting, Curry said helium volition besides present authorities for the instauration of a gait discarded transportation presumption that volition assistance successful reducing runtimes and summation the gait of postulation of gait discarded successful the city.

The authorities volition besides see a interest simplification for residents that similar to driblet disconnected the gait discarded astatine the Trail Ridge Landfill.

Costs would beryllium $1 full for up to 500 pounds of gait discarded and the tract would judge gait discarded from citizens Monday done Saturday, Curry said.

Recycling drop-off sites include:

Blue Cypress Regional Park, 4112 University Blvd. N. – 32277

William F. Sheffield Regional Park, 3659 New Berlin Rd. – 32226

Girvin Road Landfill, 515 Girvin Rd. – 32225

Southside Estates Elementary Park, 9775 Ivey Rd. – 32246

Earl Johnson Memorial Park, 5308 St. Augustine Rd. – 32207

Palmetto Leaves Regional Park, 5760 Greenland Rd. – 32257

A. Philip Randolph Heritage Park, 1096 A. Philip Randolph Blvd. – 32206

Dinsmore Playground Park, 10632 Old Kings Rd. – 32219

Hammond Park, 2142 Melson Ave. – 32254

Mary Lena Gibbs Community Center, 6974 Wilson Blvd. – 32210

Fort Family Regional Park, 8000 Baymeadows Rd. E. – 32256