NORTH GEORGIA RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY

1,986,141 POUNDS OF MATERIALS RECYCLED IN 2007

  
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Landfill Information

Banks County is the host county for Waste Management's R&B Lanfill located at 478 Bennett Road in Homer, Georgia. Banks County residents may deposit all household trash free of charge at the landfill. For other solid waste materials, the tipping fee is $35.00 per ton. Waste Management's operating hours are 5am until 5 pm Monday through Friday and 6am until 12pm on Saturday. For more information call 706-677-2650 		Recycling Information

The Banks County Recycling and Processing Center is a public/private partnership between Waste Management, The North Georgia Resource Management Authority and Banks County. Materials collected at the sight are mixed paper, corregated cardboard, #1 and #2 plastics and aluminum cans. Please remove lids from plastics and rinse. Hours of operation are Tuesday through Friday 9:00am until 5:00pm and 8:00 am until 12:00pm on Saturdays. The recycling attendant is Ronald Munday. For more information please call KOMB at 706-677-2344

BANKS COUNTY HAS TAKEN ON THE GOVERNOR'S "CLEAN COMMUNITY CHALLENGE"                

We appreciate you taking a few minutes to take the Governor's Litter Awareness Survey. Simply click on the link and share your opinions with us.

 

 
BANKS COUNTY LITTER AWARENESS SURVEY
ENVIRONMENTAL KIT FORM This is the form that teachers may use to register the children and classes they have taught using the Keep Our Mountains Beautiful Environmental Kits that are located in your library. Thank you for filling out the form below.
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THE GLASS ISSUE
 
We wanted to take a moment to address the issue of glass recycling.
 
As many of you may know, we are unable to accept glass for recycling. This is due to several reasons but the biggest of these is the fact that we are no longer able to market glass.
Recycling means that a commodity is removed from the waste stream, remanufactured into a new product and then resold. This is also known as “Closing the Loop”. If we separated glass but are unable to sell it, we are not recycling, we are merely storing it.
At the present time, due to the cost of transportation, the glass recyclers are requiring that we provide them with full semi-trailer loads of each individual color of glass in order to accept our materials. This is unfortunate as we do not have the space to house three such trailers at our county’s facility. Based on the small amounts generated, it would take several years to fill one trailer.
Another problem is that if even one colored bottle gets broken into a different colored batch of glass, the entire load must be disposed of as the recycler will not accept the trailer into their facility. This is a problem as we cannot allocate a full-time person to man the glass trailers to ensure the materials do not get contaminated.
There is some “good” news however. Glass is a renewable resource, meaning that it is made of sand and heat and both are readily available. Glass is an inert material that does not rust, rot or decompose in any way. If glass is landfilled it does not impact the earth in any negative fashion.
As the closest facility is located south of the Atlanta Airport, another factor that needs to be taken into considerations is the fuel, oil, rubber tire dust and air emissions created by transporting materials over 150 miles to take a trailer to the glass recycler. 
Please know that we are very aware of the interest of our citizens in recycling glass. Based on the information above, currently it is not possible for us to do so at this time. Should the fuel prices decline, making our glass of more interest to the recycling industry, we will revisit this issue.
Thank you for your continued patronage of our recycling centers and if we can be of further service please call Leslie George at 706-894-2785 or Cindy Reed at 706-677-2344
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