Has your Polycart been exploding now that you and the kids are home a lot more than normal due to coronavirus?
Emporia Solid Waste Supervisor Keith Senn says you’re not alone.
Senn joined KVOE’s Newsmaker 2 segment with an update on solid waste matters. He says weekend traffic at the Transfer Station has resembled Free Landfill Days, with long lines at the facility. Residential recycling is up close to 20 percent or about 15 tons from March 2019. Business trash, however, has declined by 60 percent.
Senn says any community-wide cleaning project like Project Clean Sweep will have to wait until fall 2020 at the earliest. There is a lot of coordination needed, and with social distancing in effect for the foreseeable future, Senn says a large-scale cleanup effort likely won’t happen any time soon. The city canceled the spring Free Landfill Days event, but that could return this fall.
If you want to add a Polycart, call 340-6339. Those are $15.58 per month. Senn says Public Works has several hundred now available and those can be delivered within 24 hours of an order.
