City of Dryden and Rotary ‘Hazardous Waste Day’ Breaks All Records
Posted by John Borst
on Sep 25, 2014
Having a community Hazardous Waste Day in successive years increases the number of participants and the volume of hazardous waste gathered rather than seeing a decrease in the second year. “That is the lesson to be learned from Dryden’s 2014 very successful Hazardous Waste Day.” says Rotary organizer Roger Gould.
For the past two years Rtn. Gould has organized a team of Dryden Rotarians to assist City of Dryden staff in collecting tonnes of hazardous waste from 8 am ‘til 5 pm on a Saturday in the fall. This year’s collection occurred on September 13th.
Volunteers dressed to handle hazardous waste |
Vehicles lined up to unload |
At one point Rtn. Past-president John Borst commented “It was like Tim Horton’s drive-through out there!” the cars and pick-ups where that frequent and line that long.
Rotarian gate keeper |
Rotarians unload a trunk of paint |
One Rotarian stationed at the entrance gate directed vehicles and counted their number. In 2014 a new record was set with 356 vehicles passing through the Dryden Works Department building. That is 100 more than in 2013.
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Paint was separated into oils and latex before boxing |
Oil was separated from other flammables |
The 19 Rotarians and City employees collect 6595 kilos of paint, adhesives and solvents. They also collected 4405 litres of oil, antifreeze, and gasoline/diesel.
Rtn. Ed Iskra helps city employee dump oil into drums. |
A truck awaits the loading of boxes of discarded cans of paint which is delivered to a facility in Hamilton, Ontario |
Hazards even included a box of ammunition and a bottle of mercury. We could not, however, accept ammunition.
“With this level of involvement, clearly, this needs to be an annual event;” concluded Rotarian president Brian Braid.