Horry County Solid Waste Authority

salutations running his kindred.

And I am, ah, recycling coordinator for the Ori County

solid waste authority.

And today we're gonna do a virtual presentation.

Um, normally at this time, we are super involved with

schools and helping them recycle and getting them excited about

recycling during the school year and having contest and, um,

presentations and music.

Um, but all that is kind of come to a

halt right now, um, we do staff trainings.

And for the students and the staff and the employees

and the teachers and whoever lets us in their classroom,

we have green teams.

Um, this this year is a little different.

Um, we don't know exactly what all that looks like.

Yet as far as the school here goes, we will

be having contest and recycling challenges and things like that

throughout the school year.

Well, we just don't know when that's gonna take place

yet. So today I thought, um, the Orange County solid

waste authority, um, just decided to offer access to environmental

information pertaining to Rory County that will be online and

offline. Formats of these include lesson plans, virtual presentations, virtual

tours of our facilities on these platforms for communication with

teachers, students, parents and residents of Orange County will be

made available out the closure period and the reopening period

due to cope with 19.

With that being said, um, we're not physically in the

school systems right now, So we wanted to talk to

you about, um, recycling and waste reduction while you're at

home. It can still be, um, a life skill that

we can teach our Children.

Um, that doesn't have to stop just because we're not

in the classroom.

And this is currently what the waste stream looks like

in Orange County.

So these items are what are going into the landfill.

Currently, paper and cardboard take up the most space in

a landfill, and our schools do a really great job

of helping us keep that out of the land, feel

they're really big on our programs, and they support our

programs. And we are so appreciative of that.

But we also want to bring to your attention that

it doesn't have to stop while you're at home.

Please continue to educate your kids or your neighbors or

your family members about the importance of recycling.

And if we can just keep paper and cardboard out

of the landfill and recycle it properly.

We'll be doing a really great job there.

So we have 24 recycling convenience centers throughout Rory County.

And they all pretty much look like this are you?

Drive in and you drive out.

We have a recycling attendant there to help you, but

keep in mind, as of late, traffic has been really

crazy with people trying to get in and out.

And we want you to be safe.

We want you to pay attention to the cars.

And we also want you to keep that, um, safe

distance, Um, from one another at the moment, or at

this time until this, and dim it goes away.

Um, and we ask that you be patient.

Um, a lot of the attendants are overwhelmed with material

coming in and at each recycling center, you can dispose

of your garbage and the designated recycled in the designated

container throughout Ori County.

Um, you're going your garbage along with your recyclables can

be taken to a center if you are a resident

of Orange County.

But again, make sure you're putting the garbage in the

designated container, and we also want to encourage you to

recycle. This is a list of where all of the

sites are along with the hours of operation.

And we are very aware, but you cannot read that.

So if you are interested and would like to have

some information about your centers where they are, um what

the hours of operation are, um, where they're located and

what times?

Ah, you can visit them during the weekend during the

day we have a recycling God book that we would

like to provide to you.

Um, you can request these via email, um, or by

giving us a call.

And we'll be happy to send you one out.

Or you can pick one up at the center if

you already know where yours is located.

This is not the proper way to use your recycle

center. What are we teaching kids when they ride by

the recycle center and see this?

This is illegal.

Um, and we just ask you not to do it.

It's an eyesore.

And again, if you're if you'll just be patient with

us, um, getting the centers open, getting you in and

out of there, that would be super.

We just ask that you don't put your garbage outside

of the gates.

Um, we're working very hard around the clock to ensure

that we keep Orry County clean.

But we also need your help in doing served.

And these items are what could be taken to the

center to be recycled.

And again, I realized that you cannot read this.

So therefore, again, I'm going to stress to you this

handy dandy recycling God book, Um, again, that we can,

um, mail to you or you can pick up at

your center if you know where that is.

But things that you can take to you recycle center

are things like paper, cardboard, glass, metal magazines, junk mail,

oil, um, batteries, book ways, yard waste and recycling really

does help on Earth.

And it helps us make our landfill last longer and

again. Recycling is not main tour here in Orange County

is a choice.

So these items such as paint cleaners, chemicals, oxidizer is

chlorine things of that nature.

This is household hazardous waste.

These hazardous products and chemicals require special handling.

This is to protect you and to protect our environment.

Our recycle centers do not accept household hazardous waste material.

It must be taken too early and feel location located

at 18 86 Highway 90 And it is at no

charge, Torrey County residents.

That is the free service that we offer Teoh.

And guess what?

It's also in this handy, dandy recycling God book that

we want to give to yet office.

So thank you for joining in, um, today listening to

me run my mouth.

We appreciate all your efforts and helping us keep Ori

County beautiful.

And thank you for helping us protect tomorrow's environment today.

And we look forward to those phone calls in those

emails. We can send you out your bad book.

You'll have a great day and please remember to be

safe. Thanks so much.

Horry County Solid Waste Authority

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