Recycling dumpsters at city drop-off sites overflowing before opening

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Starting Monday, Jacksonville volition suspend its curbside recycling pickup services and unfastened 14 caller drop-off locations astir the city. Even earlier they were formally open, radical person already dumped tons of recyclable items into the bins.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Recycling drop-off sites are acceptable to unfastened Monday for Jacksonville residents. But it looks similar immoderate radical got a caput commencement implicit the weekend.

At one of the 14 recycling drop-off locations astatine William Sheffield Regional Park connected New Berlin Road, the metropolis recycling dumpsters were already overflowing arsenic of Sunday morning.

At 2 different sites visited by News4Jax, the dumpsters were besides full, including connected the other broadside of municipality astatine Normandy Park.

In immoderate cases, determination were cases of amerciable dumping and things that cannot beryllium recycled, similar trash bags.

According to @CityofJax, the program for the 14 sites to unfastened time was due to the fact that that would the earliest metropolis workers would commencement picking up immoderate would beryllium dropped off.

— Aaron Farrar (@aaronfarrarNews) October 3, 2021

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry 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.

Residents who privation to proceed to recycle during the indefinite intermission indispensable present instrumentality their trash to 1 of the sites astir the city.

For further information, check retired immoderate FAQs oregon telephone (904) 630-2489 (CITY).