Daily News reporter Tom McLaughlin reports that Okaloosa County will soon begin shipping its recyclables to ECUA’s new $10-million facility located at the Escambia County’s Perdido Landfill.
Since West Florida Recycling went out of business in Escambia County, Waste Management has been shipping Okaloosa’s recycling hundreds to a facility Marietta, Georgia.
City staff have told the Pensacola City Council that the city may be moving its recyclables to the ECUA facility. The city had been transporting its recyclables to Infinitus Renewable Energy Park’s Advanced Mixed Materials Recovery Facility in Montgomery until that facility abruptly shut down in October 2014.
Currently, the City of Pensacola has a two-year contract with Tarpon Paper Company that takes care of its recyclables in Loxley, Ala. The contract expires Nov. 5, 2016.
This past year, the city has no longer accepted glass bottles for recycling, and plastic bottles have been limited to those with a “1†or “2†recycling logo. Plastic shopping bags, styrofoam, clamshell produce containers, and other plastic materials marked with a “3†through “7†logo have also not been accepted.