City to Increase the Number of Waste
Tires Accepted at the Recycling Drop-Off Center from Four to Five
NEW
ORLEANS – In an effort to
reduce the number of illegally abandoned waste tires, the City of New
Orleans Department of Sanitation has increased the number of waste tires that will be accepted at the Recycling Drop-Off Center from four to five. The
Recycling Drop-Off Center, located at 2829 Elysian Fields Ave., is open on
the second and fourth Saturday of each month from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Orleans
Parish residents can drop off paper products (newspapers, junk mail, phone
books, catalogs, office paper, color inserts); plastics #1 through #7 (water,
soda, juice, detergent, plastic pots from nurseries, plastic bags, etc.);
metals (aluminum, tin and steel cans); cardboard; box board (cereal boxes);
Mardi Gras beads; batteries (AA, AAA, AAAA, C, D, 6 volt, 9 volt, Lithium);
light bulbs (incandescent and fluorescent); and electronics such as computers,
processors, monitors, keyboards, small printers, laptops, ink jet/toner
cartridges, circuit boards, X-boxes, Playstations, Wii, MP3/DVD/CD players,
DVRs, digital cameras, security systems, networking equipment, UPS, GPS, fax
machines, stereos, telephones and phone systems, televisions (limit 4),
microwave ovens (limit 4), tires
(limit 5), glass (limit 50 lbs.) and organics for composting -- fruit/vegetable scraps (peels, skins, pits, or seeds), tea bags, coffee grounds
and paper filter, eggshells, nutshells, seed shells, plain bread, grains, and
plain pasta (no toppings, meet, bones, dairy or foods with oil).
REMAINING 2018
DROP-OFF SCHEDULE
Aug. 25, 2018 Nov. 10, 2018
Sept. 8, 2018 Nov. 24, 2018
Sept. 22, 2018 Dec. 8, 2018**
Oct. 13, 2018** Dec. 22, 2018
Oct. 27, 2018
**Shred day (Limit
50 lbs.)
The following companies provide their services free of charge as a service to the community:
- Iron Mountain -- paper shredding and
recycling
- CACRC -- e-waste recycling
- Republic Services -- single stream
recycling
- The Composting Network -- composting
Since
the City established the Recycling Drop-Off Center in August 2010, a total of
1,193 tons have been recycled. Since the current curbside recycling
program began in May 2011, a total of 48,822 tons have been
recycled. As a result of the City’s efforts since 2010 to appropriately
dispose of waste tires illegally dumped and collected from residential
properties, more than 214,966 waste tires have been transported to the only LDEQ-approved waste tire processor in the City. The tires collected are recycled.
Occupants
of residential properties, which are
eligible to receive solid waste collection by the City, are also eligible to
place up to four (4) tires next to their garbage collection carts on the second
collection day of each week (or on Wednesdays in the French Quarter and
DDD). Businesses are not eligible for this service.
Residents
are reminded that an ordinance was passed earlier this year (Sections 26-415
through 24-430 of the City Code), which established minimum standards for the
storage, sale, repair, removal, installation, hauling and disposal of motor
vehicle tires and established a stronger enforcement process with significant
fines and penalties.
It
is illegal to store more than 20 tires on a property without authorization from
LDEQ as a registered Waste Tire Generator or to transport more than 20 tires
without a permit from LDEQ, which must be prominently displayed on the vehicle
transporting the tires. All tires must be covered to prevent standing
water which could become breeding grounds for rodents and mosquitoes that could carry the West Nile or Zika viruses. All Waste Tire Generators must
keep LDEQ-approved manifests on site, for a minimum of five years, which
document that tires have been legally transported and disposed of by an LDEQ-permitted transporter and tire processor.
The
Department of Sanitation is working the NOPD, the Department of Safety and Permits and the
Department of Finance to ensure that all tire shops are in full compliance
with City and State Codes. The owners of properties that are found not
to be in compliance will be cited. As a result of a joint enforcement
action involving LDEQ’s Criminal Investigation Division and NOPD, arrests have been made for illegally transporting and disposing of tires in Orleans
Parish.
For more information, please call 311 or visit nola.gov/sanitation/recycling.
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