Jacksonville residents putting regular trash into city recycling dumpsters, causing issues

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Recycling dumpsters overflowing astatine Normandy Park.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Monday was the archetypal time of a caller impermanent recycling strategy successful Jacksonville arsenic the metropolis deals with coagulated discarded and gait discarded back-ups owed to pandemic-related idiosyncratic shortages.

There are present 14 recycling drop-off locations astir the metropolis and immoderate of those sites were already overflowing connected time one, but not lone with recyclable materials.

City officials said the occupation is not everyone is pursuing the “no trash” and “recycling only” regularisation and are truthful creating yet different situation for the nationalist works department.

The displacement successful work is simply a large alteration from the aged curbside strategy but it hasn’t stopped residents similar Dan Coffman from recycling.

“We’ll marque the effort. As agelong arsenic they tin instrumentality the worldly really, we tin lone support our worldly truthful long, you know?” Coffman said.

The metropolis said it made the displacement owed to a deficiency of manpower and that precedence needed to beryllium shifted to the backup of regular trash postulation and gait waste.

“I anticipation it’s a precise impermanent situation. I person nary answers for their manpower shortage, but that’s what we elite the guys for, to travel up with ideas,” Coffman said.

Before Monday’s pickup, astir of the drop-off sites News4Jax checked were wholly afloat with galore of them overflowing. But arsenic City of Jacksonville Public Works Director John Pappas told The Morning Show, the contented isn’t however overmuch recycling is being dropped off, but the regular trash that’s mixed successful with it.

“There is not the manpower to sift done it,” Pappas said. “The installation that goes done each the worldly and recycles what’s disposable cannot instrumentality integrative bags, cannot instrumentality gait waste, cannot instrumentality garbage, truthful no, it needs to beryllium separated and lone brought to those distant sites what is genuinely recyclable and not successful bags.”

A mates of reminders for those who are readying to recycle. It’s escaped to bash it astatine immoderate of the 14 sites crossed the city. The hours are from sunrise to sunset astatine each location.

Here’s what you should NOT see successful your drop-off: