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Berkeley County hunters through Dec. 31.Hides, bones and other waste materials from any legally harvested deer will be accepted for free at the Grapevine Road Recycling Center or the South Berkeley Recycling Center.The material should be placed in one or more large paper leaf bags, which can be purchased inexpensively at many area hardware and discount stores.Plastic bags used for material transportation won't be accepted.The recycling centers are open Tuesday to Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. except on posted holidays.The material will taken to the Lyle C. Tabb Composting operation in Leetown, W.Va.The litter-control program is an effort to increase recycling and reduce the littering and open dumping of deer carcasses along area roadways, creeks and streams.
Emily Dyson of Entsorga West Virginia.The facility in the 800 block of Grapevine Road was called a model project in the United States at the January 2016 groundbreaking ceremony for the venture.The 48,000-square-foot facility, which is expected to use a patented mechanical-biological treatment process, is expected to result in a greenhouse-gas-emission reduction of 28,000 tons per year, the company has said.Once complete, the facility will receive municipal solid waste through a contract with Apple Valley Waste.About 40 percent to 50 percent of the material is projected to be converted into an alternative fuel that has been approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.Entsorga also has entered a contract to sell the “solid recovered fuel” to operators of the nearby Argos cement plant.The facility is expected to employ 15 to 20 people, according to the company’s website.Additional employees will be needed for transportation of the recovered fuel, as well as residual waste that will need to be sent to landfills.A number of services connected with maintenance and cleaning might be outsourced to local companies.Clint Hogbin, chairman of the Berkeley County (W.Va.) Solid Waste Authority, said Wednesday that the project delay hasn’t affected the agency’s programs.Entsorga is ... (Herald-Mail Media)
