Waste collected at fall Pierce County Clean Sweep up from ‘11

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Waste collected at fall Clean Sweep up from ‘11

By Bill Kirk

Collection numbers were up and participation numbers slightly down when the Pierce County Clean Sweep was held at the county’s recycling center in Ellsworth this past fall, compared to a year earlier.

Veolia Environmental Services, with which the county contracted, collected 31,578 pounds of total combined waste at the Sept. 15 event, an increase of 542 pounds from the previous fall, according to a report from the county’s solid waste department. The average weight of the waste delivered or collected per vehicle this time also increased to 107 pounds, up by five pounds over the fall of 2011.

Meantime, a total of 294 vehicles came to the 2012 fall event, down by nine vehicles from the previous year, when 303 vehicles attended. The traffic flow was steady and the majority of vehicles delivered above-average loads of hazardous waste on a day when the temperature was average for the time of the year.

Read more in the print version of the Herald Jan. 16.

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