Bobbie Bicknell Coray, Reporter
Rich Civic Times
RANDOLPH, Utah. January 3, 2018. Times for the Rich County Landfill will change for the
summer. Commissioners were asked to
approve summer hours of 8a.m. to 4p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. The landfill will be closed on Sunday and
Monday.
In the winter the landfill is open Tuesday through Friday 12
noon to 4 p.m.
Lynn Weston , newly appointed Sanitation Supervisor, said
that closing the landfill to the public on Mondays would allow one more worker
to be part of the garbage collection that increases on the weekends . They have pickup on Saturdays and Sundays in
Garden City on the weekends and then another pickup on Monday if needed. Saturday is the busiest time at the landfill
as people bring large items. Contractors
use the landfill to dispose of waste although many use the dumpsters which is
against the law and that construction
waste causes damage to the trucks.
Four people work on the trucks in the winter and in the
summer they hire one extra part time person. The trucks take a two hour round
trip to empty dumpsters and bring the trash back to the landfill, for Garden
City they make several round trips. In
the summer the sanitation workers may work ten to eleven hour days.
Weston said that cardboard boxes are 80% of the garbage and
that he is looking into finding ways to have residents recycle the boxes.
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