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She plans to raise the money for the $14 million project on her own and with state environmental grants.“To create advanced recycling infrastructure like this dry digester, our community can greatly benefit by diverting those food scraps to the processing facility that allows them to be rapidly converted into compost and back into our farms," Pasad said.While admitting this plan is smart and sustainable, not everyone is on board with it.Neighbors of the proposed site location in north Nashville say waste is waste, and they don’t want it.“People have to understand the 100 year history of that community,” District 1 Metro Councilman Jonathan Hall said. “When you’ve been the district where everyone has deposited the things they don’t want, you’re naturally going to have two reactions: first, would you put it anywhere else? Have you looked anywhere else? And second, it is not the things we have in mind for ourselves.”Councilman Hall says he has heard loud and clear from his District 1 constituents, and 98 percent are against it.He says they’re looking to develop vacant land with things like housing, services and amenities, and better infrastructure.“It just does not fit in to any part of those plans overall,” Hall said.Despite the setback, Prasad believes a lot of the opposition is being fueled by misconception, and she wants to work with north Nashville residents so the two sides can come to an understanding.Since the bill was withdrawn in its third reading, it can be taken up again by Metro Council at that stage. (ntroversial compost proposal still hopes to help Nashville's trash problem)
She can be reached at rbaker@unionleader.com or (603) 206-1514. See more at www.unionleader.com/aging. This series is funded through a grant from the Endowment for Health. As operations manager at ServPro of Manchester, Tim Dow has witnessed hoarding's worst extremes: Corridors winding through garbage bags stacked to the ceiling. Human waste, dead animals and food scraps rotting beneath piles of laundry and pizza boxes. People living inside basement tunnels surrounded by tightly packed trash, seldom emerging to eat or bathe, unable to access the kitchen or bathroom behind towers of plastic bags, old newspapers, empty milk cartons and items saved for years or decades."To them, everything is good and shouldn't be tossed," says Dow, whose crews don full-body protective suits and respirators when called to a suspected hoarding situation because "as soon as you start digging, everything becomes airborne."Once, when hired by an insurance company to clean up a water-damaged basement in Bedford, Dow erected a wedding tent in the front yard to shelter water-logged odds and ends while the team hurried to disinfect walls and floors. The owner, a woman living alone, refused to allow the moldering objects, seen by her as treasured and essential, to be carted away - losing a $30,000 insurance claim. "She made us bring everything back down to the basement," Dow recalls. "She almost threw us off the property when we tried to remove a bag of used baby diapers." People grieve when their possessions, however useless or unhealthy, are removed, he says. Hoarding - the out-of-control accumulation of objects... (lver Linings: Dwellings strewn with garbage and waste overshadow the mental health crisis)
A grant from the Nebraska Environmental Trust covers the deconstruction process. However, a donation to the nonprofit is suggested.)“We hear people say, ‘Why wouldn’t I do this?’ or ‘I’m going to tell all of my friends,’ ” said Matt Hassenstab, who manages both the deconstruction program and donations to Omaha Habitat ReStore. “There’s just no way that a homeowner wouldn’t want to do this. It’s a win for everyone involved. It just makes sense.”Habitat can work with a homeowner’s contractor to remove or pick up salvageable items, saving those contractors the cost of dumping fees or a Dumpster. Or, the nonprofit can bring in its go-to deconstruction expert, Johnson Deconstruct.“We take as much as we possibly can,” Erickson said. Among items accepted: windows, cabinetry, granite, wood flooring and bathroom fixtures.Deconstruction and demolition are not synonymous.“In a demolition case, usually you’re taking things out as quickly as you can,” explained Hassenstab. “A lot of times, they come in with a sledgehammer. They’re not concerned about saving anything because it’s all going to end up in a Dumpster. In a deconstruction, you are concerned about what you’re taking apart. You’re showing those items extra care because you know they’re going to be reused.”For Zack Johnson, owner of Johnson Deconstruct, “It’s always rewarding to reduce the amount of waste and to see those materials being reused.”Interest in deconstruction, he noted, is growing, especially among millennials. “There is a lot of hope around the younger generation doing the right thing and the responsible thing with their dollars.”“We wanted to do deconstruction for some time because it’s a perfect fit for our ReStore, but we realized we needed to have that partnership with Nebraska Environmental Trust to make it happen,” said Amanda Brewer, CEO of Habitat for Humanity of Omaha.Initiating the deconstruction process — which can target anything from a kitchen or bathroom remodeling project to... (Omaha World-Herald)
Ruggiero, manager of Tampa Code Enforcement.According to Ruggiero, city officials see the worst cases of illegal dumping in the Sulphur Springs and Grant Park neighborhoods.The problem has worsened since Hurricane Irma, when many residents were looking to get rid of water-damaged furniture and non-vegetative storm debris."A lot of that is people hiring people off of Craigslist to pick up your debris, and a lot of times, they're not bringing it to the dump. They're bringing it to the side of the road," said Ruggiero.The Environment Crime Unit has been developed by the East Tampa Revitalization Community Partnership. They're mounting surveillance cameras throughout East Tampa in dumping hot spots to catch offenders in the act. Depending on the weight of the trash dumped, offenders could face a misdemeanor or a felony charge.Tampa detectives are now searching for the men caught dumping. The license plate on their pickup truck read: HNK-J10. Anyone who recognizes them or witnesses illegal dumping can call the Tampa police non-emergency number at (813) 231-6130. After the police department has responded, call the Department of Solid Waste & Environmental Program Management at (813) 348-1111, Extension 3 for collection of the debris if it is on a city right of way. If the illegal dumping occurred on private property, report it to a Solid Waste inspector at (813) 274-5545.City officials encourage residents to record video of the illegal dumping in progress and a picture of the offender's tag number. (FOX 13 News, Tampa Bay)
Kickapoo Tribe, suggesting the two entities host a household hazardous waste event.“The Kickapoo Tribe received some Federal grant funding for environmental work, and with the leftover funds is willing to contribute toward an event with the city,” Erickson said.Central Disposal has offered their site and staff assistance at no cost, he said.It has been many years since the city hosted such an event.Erickson said the city has an agreement with Oklahoma City, but residents have to drive to Oklahoma City to dispose of materials and pay applicable fees, which can be pretty steep, Erickson said.Common items disposed include pesticides and herbicides, paints, batteries, lawn care products, fuels and pool chemicals.The event would be free and open to all residents of the City of Shawnee and all Tribal members from participating tribes. Commercial waste will not be accepted.Erickson said the estimated expense for the city’s portion is likely somewhere below $25,000 — the amount he requested authorization to spend. An exact figure is not known yet because it is dependent on the quantity of material that ends up being collected.He said the Shawnee Municipal Authority has approximately $100,000 remaining in a budgeted line item for contingencies; funding for this activity would come from that account.Erickson said depending on collections and turnout, he hopes to make the effort an annual one.“Some other cities do this once or twice a year,” he said.The request passed 6-0, in favor; City Commissioner Lesa Shaw was not at the meeting.According to the agenda, the event is tent... (Shawnee News Star)
