Advanced Chemical Transport Inc. has been awarded an $80,000 contract to provide the November 2020 and March 2021 household hazardous waste collections in Apache Junction.
The city has been …
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$80K contract approved with household hazardous waste company
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Hazardous waste collection
The City of Apache Junction holds collection events for household hazardous waste, white goods, electronic recycling and document shredding. The collections are for items that typically cannot be deposited into your regular trash. An effort is made to recycle the items collected.
Residents may bring hazardous-waste items from their homes such as anti-freeze (up to 20 gallons in up to 5 gallon containers), batteries (auto/truck and marine), oil- motor only (up to 20 gallons in up to five-gallon containers), and paint (latex and oil based, aerosol), and passenger, light-truck and semi-truck tires (rims will not be accepted). Collection of hazardous waste and tires will be free of charge.
White goods are any large household appliances such as refrigerators, air conditioners, freezers, stoves, washing machines, clothes dryers and related. All refrigerators and freezers must be emptied of food before they will be accepted.
Among the items that will not be accepted are furniture, lamps and small appliances, or any items from businesses or commercial interests.
The event is open to City of Apache Junction residents and Pinal County residents in the surrounding area. Participants are responsible for transporting the goods to the city collection site and will be asked to show proof of residency.
A map outlining the area eligible for the collection event can be found at ajcity.net/DocumentCenter/View/18933/HHW--Pinal-County-Map.
Advanced Chemical Transport Inc. has been awarded an $80,000 contract to provide the November 2020 and March 2021 household hazardous waste collections in Apache Junction.
The city has been holding household hazardous waste events since November 2018 for city residents and people in Pinal County to the east including Gold Canyon, Public Works Management Analyst Heather Hodgman said.
“With this, residents can drop off white goods; tires; electronic waste; hazardous materials --- including paint and oil, solvents, fire extinguishers, light bulbs. You name it, we can take it,” she said at the Sept. 1 City Council meeting.
Councilmember Christa Rizzi asked if there was limit on the number of paint cans or other items that could be dropped off.
“Is it by weight? Or can I just show up with a big trailer or is it limited to a pickup-truck size?” she asked.
Local residents are not limited. Ms. Hodgman said.
“We do watch for commercial people that come in,” she said. “ACT — Advanced Chemical Transport — is really good at communicating with me during that event if they feel that the person that comes in could be a potential commercial-property owner.”
Mayor Jeff Serdy asked if the Mining Camp area and Goldfields are included along with Gold Canyon.
“That’s east ... yes,” Ms. Hodgman said.
“The Apache Junction address goes all the way to Ellsworth, but not the Maricopa County side?” Mayor Serdy asked.
The hazardous waste events are for Apache Junction residents, which includes a small portion just east of Meridian in Maricopa County, city officials said.
The contract with Advanced Chemical Transport was approved Sept. 1 by the City Council, with six at the dais and Councilmember Gail Evans by phone.
Pinal County reimburses the city for costs attributable to county-resident participation in a maximum amount of $20,000 — $10,000 per event, Ms. Hodgman said in a memo to the council.
The next household hazardous waste events are 8 a.m.-noon Saturday, Nov. 21 and Saturday, March 6, 2021 at the city’s Public Works Yard, 575 E. Baseline Ave.
“Our last two events that we hosted averaged 286 city and county residents,” Ms. Hodgman said in the memo.
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Richard Dyer has worked at Independent Newsmedia, Inc.. USA, since 1987.
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