WHAT can be recycled: Tires (4 tire limit), Water based paints, Fluorescent Bulbs, E-Waste WHEN/WHERE: Saturday, July 20th from 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. across from the Paulding Fairgrounds DETAILS: This event is for Paulding County residents only. DL’s and license plates will be verified. Tires may still be on their rim and there is…
Antwerp will have a trailer placed this Friday at the Sewer Plant. It will be picked up early Monday morning so you’ll have all weekend to bring your recyclables. No sorting required anymore and we can take plastics 1-7 now! As always, no glass, electronics, plastic bags, batteries or gas cans of any kind. If…
The WMEA Program Manager, Becky Suvar, provided an opportunity to the Junction community to take a recycling survey on Saturday, March 10th. After reviewing the results, residents were willing to bring their recycling to the same location, the old St Marys Catholic church, but on a different day and a different time slot. The recycling…
Due to abuse of the recycling drop off site in the Village of Oakwood, the WMEA Program will no longer have it as a recycling drop off site effective immediately. This will affect not only Oakwood, but also Melrose and Junction. This is an unfortunate situation for those communities in Paulding County. The problem of people…
By: Becky Suvar, Paulding County WMEA Program Manager Recycling – it’s been the right thing to do for a long time. It began back in 1988 when the State of Ohio mandated that all 88 counties needed to divert waste from landfills. The easiest way to do that was to divide the state into Solid…
By: Becky Suvar, WMEA Program Manager, Paulding County Ann’s Bright Beginners were introduced to the items you can recycle in Paulding County. Among those items were two different types of metal – steel cans and aluminum cans. How do you tell the difference between the metals you can recycle? By using a magical magnetic wand,…
Paulding Elementary would like to give a big shout out, and recognize the Defiance College students for donating plastic caps collected from their recycling program. When DC students, Paige Sickmiller and Alyssa Mlot, were doing their teaching observation with us, they learned of our “Cap Art” projects and brought in five large garbage bags filled…
The City of Woodburn would like to make known an issue that has recently gotten out of control. Under the water tower on Front Street, there are three dumpsters that are to be used exclusively for recycling, not garbage. This location is designed for locals outside of the City limits. While we understand that, at…
The WMEA Program (Waste Management Education & Awareness) will be teaming up with Erie Recycling to bring glass recycling back to the county program. It must be rinsed out, caps off and separated into clear and colored bottles. This glass recycling endeavor will coincide with celebrating Earth Day on April 22, 2015. The WMEA program…
