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ACRC Shutting Down Today – January 14, 2012
These facilities will be closed effective at the close of business January 14, with the layoff of all processing center employees to follow. »
Closure Near, ACRC Loses Money – December 26, 2011
The Arcata Community Recycling Center (ACRC) has lost recyclables from the greater Arcata area as the county will send them elsewhere in anticipation of ACRC’s self-announced mid-January closure. »
ACRC Announces January Closure – November 1, 2011
All ACRC facilities will operate normally through the end of this year. Arcata drop-off, buy-back, and Thrift Store are open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. ACRC’s Samoa facility will accept materials from curbside programs, Humboldt State University and trade accounts through early January 2012. »
HWMA May Buy Out Crippled ACRC – July 26, 2011
Some observers of the situation view that as a move toward local control of recycling while others think it’s an attempted bail-out of a fiscally weakened ACRC. »
Kathy Marshall: HWMA’s Ready-Fire-Aim Approach To Recycling – June 7, 2011
There is a need, and clearly community concern, that our local waste and recycling infrastructure remain intact and grow stronger; and the HWMA needs more time to figure out how to achieve that. »
Margaret Gainer: A Fancy Word For Garbage – May 31, 2011
I call it Loophole Recycling. It’s a loophole for local governments that have not been able to comply with state mandated goals for landfill diversion. In the proposal to transport in a single-stream to Willits, it is especially “loophole recycling” because it must be dumped twice and is further contaminated. »
City Lawyering Up – May 26, 2011
City Manager Randy Mendosa will ask the City Council next week to hire alternate counsel to handle legal matters pertaining to recycling. »
Margaret Gainer: Penny Wise, Pound Foolish – April 12, 2011
Attend the Thursday, April 14 HWMA board meeting to express your concern. This is a time for local elected officials to put their money where their mouths were and keep the value-added jobs of processing recyclables local. We should not give away our jobs and future business development for a “few cents on the... »
Jilted ACRC Threatening Legal Action – April 4, 2011
And the ACRC alleges that the RFP process is unfair, as the Intelliwaste study “disclosed all of ACRC’s operational costs and revenues in a public document.” »
HWMA Drops ACRC – February 16, 2011
To the HWMA boardmembers, including Arcata Councilmember Michael Winkler, the decision was clear-cut – ACRC responded to a request for five-year contract proposals with an offer to process recyclables at a cost of $65 a ton. Renewable Waste Systems is offering to pay the HWMA $8 a ton. »