Kirkwood continues to clean up on curbside recycling, according to the company contracted to manage the program. The haul for the first half of the year is just above $200,000, according to the company's six-month report.
"Great job - amazing job. Nobody else is turning those kinds of numbers in St. Louis County," Gary Gilliam, sales manager for Resource Management Company, told the Kirkwood City Council on July 21. "I get calls from other cities asking 'How do they do that? What are they doing? What's different?'"
The key is "a lot of dedication," Gilliam said. He added it's also many, many years of work in recycling - since the 1970s with the city's recycling depository.
"I think the attitude overall is one of recycling," he added.
Kirkwood recycled 2,820 tons of trash, which is 43 percent of 4,949 tons produced in the first six months of the year, Gilliam reported. Resource Management paid the city $119,871 for this recycled material, and the city saved an additional $80,171 in landfill fees that would have been incurred had the recycled material been thrown away, according to Gilliam's data.
Showing posts with label Kirkwood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kirkwood. Show all posts
Monday, August 01, 2011
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Kirkwood Residents Gives City Failing Grade on Recycling
A Kirkwood resident writes . . .
"I recently went to a function at Kirkwood Community Center, as I frequently do. Again I saw approximately 1,000 or more cans and bottles and nowhere to recycle them. Only one small recycling cardboard box within a huge room filled with at least 400 people.
I asked a Kirkwood employee why they weren't recycled. In green Kirkwood, I was told the director of parks and superintendent of recreation said there was no manpower for this. Kirkwood was the first municipality in the St. Louis metro area to set up a recycling center in the '70s, and here 1,000 or more bottles and cans were thrown away.
What a shame.
"I recently went to a function at Kirkwood Community Center, as I frequently do. Again I saw approximately 1,000 or more cans and bottles and nowhere to recycle them. Only one small recycling cardboard box within a huge room filled with at least 400 people.
I asked a Kirkwood employee why they weren't recycled. In green Kirkwood, I was told the director of parks and superintendent of recreation said there was no manpower for this. Kirkwood was the first municipality in the St. Louis metro area to set up a recycling center in the '70s, and here 1,000 or more bottles and cans were thrown away.
What a shame.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Free Curbside Recycling Coming To Kirkwood Residents
Kirkwood is making plans to provide citywide single-stream curbside recycling in fall 2010, thanks in part to a mandate by St. Louis County. The service would be offered at no additional charge to residents.
Under the plan, the city, through its sanitation department, would offer once a week curbside recycling. To do that, one of the changes Kirkwood will make is going from twice a week curbside household waste pickup to once a week household waste pickup.
While many details remain to be worked out, the service is expected to include some or all of the following:
> The city will establish five sanitation districts. Recyclables will be picked up once per week on the same day as regular household waste.
>> Roll-out containers will be provided without charge to each single-family home. The city will apply for grant money from the St. Louis County Health Department and the St. Louis-Jefferson Solid Waste Management District to fund the containers.
>> Regular household waste will continue to be picked up in plastic bags. One roll of 50 bags will continue to be provided and delivered at no charge each year by the city, with additional bags available for purchase at Kirkwood City Hall.
>> There will be no change in the requirement that residents place yard waste in paper bags purchased from the city or in tied bundles.
>> Bulky pick-up will be provided on the day of household waste pick-up on a fee-for-service basis.
>> Businesses in the city will be able and encouraged to recycle.
>> Apartment complexes will continue to use dumpsters and will be encouraged to add a second dumpster for recyclables.
>> The process of converting to curbside recycling could take one year or longer and will include modification of some existing trucks as well as purchase of new ones.
Under St. Louis County ordinance, a municipality that has a sanitation department must show that 40 percent of its household waste is being recycled. If that diversion rate drops below 40 percent, cities must go to curbside recycling.
"More importantly, its (curbside recycling) time has come," Brown said. "Kirkwood sees itself as an environmentally-conscious community and we've been in the background in curbside recycling."
The city plans to host a couple of open forums over the next six months to give residents a chance to offer input.
http://www.websterkirkwoodtimes.com/Articles-i-2009-06-19-165601.113118_Curbside_Recycling_Coming_To_Kirkwood.html#print
Under the plan, the city, through its sanitation department, would offer once a week curbside recycling. To do that, one of the changes Kirkwood will make is going from twice a week curbside household waste pickup to once a week household waste pickup.
While many details remain to be worked out, the service is expected to include some or all of the following:
> The city will establish five sanitation districts. Recyclables will be picked up once per week on the same day as regular household waste.
>> Roll-out containers will be provided without charge to each single-family home. The city will apply for grant money from the St. Louis County Health Department and the St. Louis-Jefferson Solid Waste Management District to fund the containers.
>> Regular household waste will continue to be picked up in plastic bags. One roll of 50 bags will continue to be provided and delivered at no charge each year by the city, with additional bags available for purchase at Kirkwood City Hall.
>> There will be no change in the requirement that residents place yard waste in paper bags purchased from the city or in tied bundles.
>> Bulky pick-up will be provided on the day of household waste pick-up on a fee-for-service basis.
>> Businesses in the city will be able and encouraged to recycle.
>> Apartment complexes will continue to use dumpsters and will be encouraged to add a second dumpster for recyclables.
>> The process of converting to curbside recycling could take one year or longer and will include modification of some existing trucks as well as purchase of new ones.
Under St. Louis County ordinance, a municipality that has a sanitation department must show that 40 percent of its household waste is being recycled. If that diversion rate drops below 40 percent, cities must go to curbside recycling.
"More importantly, its (curbside recycling) time has come," Brown said. "Kirkwood sees itself as an environmentally-conscious community and we've been in the background in curbside recycling."
The city plans to host a couple of open forums over the next six months to give residents a chance to offer input.
http://www.websterkirkwoodtimes.com/Articles-i-2009-06-19-165601.113118_Curbside_Recycling_Coming_To_Kirkwood.html#print
Thursday, February 21, 2008
North Miami Beach Council screening for weapons
Anyone who enters North Miami Beach City Hall for a City Council meeting must now agree to be searched.
In response to a recent deadly shooting rampage during a Kirkwood, Mo., city council meeting, the North Miami Beach Police Department, council members and staff decided to step up security and check every person who enters the building.
On Tuesday, meeting attendees emptied their pockets, watched as their briefcases and purses were searched and waited as a police officer moved a hand-held metal detector up and down their bodies in search of weapons.
In response to a recent deadly shooting rampage during a Kirkwood, Mo., city council meeting, the North Miami Beach Police Department, council members and staff decided to step up security and check every person who enters the building.
On Tuesday, meeting attendees emptied their pockets, watched as their briefcases and purses were searched and waited as a police officer moved a hand-held metal detector up and down their bodies in search of weapons.
Thursday, February 07, 2008
Gunman Opens fire At Kirkwood City Council Meeting
An armed man walked into a Kirkwood city council meeting Thursday night and shot several people, including the at least one police officer, the city’s mayor and several council members. At least one city council member is confirmed dead.
There were about 30 people in the council chambers at the time of the shooting. Witnesses were herded into offices while police secured the scene. Later they were taken to the police station to be interviewed.
The shooter was not a stranger to the council, where he was often a contentious presence. In May 2006, he was handcuffed and pulled from a meeting. He was charged with disorderly conduct and released. He often aimed his ire at the mayor and at Yost.
For the rest of the story, visit: http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/C9F47E8DFBA0B871862573E90007E20F?OpenDocument
or http://tinyurl.com/yodglx
There were about 30 people in the council chambers at the time of the shooting. Witnesses were herded into offices while police secured the scene. Later they were taken to the police station to be interviewed.
The shooter was not a stranger to the council, where he was often a contentious presence. In May 2006, he was handcuffed and pulled from a meeting. He was charged with disorderly conduct and released. He often aimed his ire at the mayor and at Yost.
For the rest of the story, visit: http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/C9F47E8DFBA0B871862573E90007E20F?OpenDocument
or http://tinyurl.com/yodglx
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