Some Jacksonville recycling bins filled following Christmas weekend

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Image taken from recycling tract successful Riverside Park connected Dec. 27, 2021.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Everyone wants to cleanable things retired of the location aft the acquisition openings connected Christmas Day.

But News4JAX viewers person been sharing their station vacation frustrations astatine the city-sponsored recycling sites, which were enactment successful spot aft the metropolis paused recycling pickup truthful it could get caught up connected delays successful gait discarded collection.

David Papaj said helium couldn’t judge however 1 of the city’s recycling drop-off sites has transformed since helium started bringing his recyclables there.

“I was perfectly shocked,” helium said. “Now everyone’s dumping bigger items, car tires, tv sets and chairs. This is conscionable ridiculous.”

Apart from the photos shared by News4JAX viewers, we visited the tract astatine Earl Johnson Park, wherever we recovered the bins nearing capacity.

At the Southside Estate recycling location, the bin appeared to beryllium full, but determination wasn’t immoderate trash connected the ground.

Riverside Park’s recycling bins were overflowing with boxes that radical tossed out.

The worst of it appeared to beryllium astatine Palmetto Park, wherever we recovered Papaj. Trash was dispersed acold distant from the recycling bins. Much of it was wrapping insubstantial and boxes, astir of which were not breached down, making the heap look adjacent worse.

Image taken astatine Palmetto Park recycling tract connected Dec. 27, 2021.

“It was overmuch easier erstwhile we had the can, and conscionable enactment it outside, you know? And it takes 15 minutes to get implicit here,” said Duval nonmigratory Mary Merritt, driving to a drop-off point.

Bart Welling said the intermission successful the pickup hasn’t been excessively large of an inconvenience. He believes recycling is vital.

“I deliberation recycling is simply a elemental happening we tin bash to halt putting things that should beryllium reused and made into caller things -- halt putting them successful landfills,” helium said.

According to a spokesperson for Waste Management, the metropolis inactive needs 8 commercially licensed drivers to capable residential trash routes. That fig of vacancies is overmuch higher than normal, but they’re moving hard to capable the gap, including offering a sign-on bonus.

News4JAX expects a effect from the metropolis aft officials instrumentality from the vacation break.