2018 SPECIAL COLLECTION EVENTS
May 19, 2018 - Pickaway County
June 16, 2018 - Ross County
August 4th & 18th 2018 - Highland County
September 8, 2018 - Fayette County
Stay tuned! Information to come on this year's Household Hazardous Waste event is coming soon!
Date: September 22, 2018
Location: PPG, Circleville (For Pickaway County residents only*)
Time: TBA
*If you have household hazardous waste, please call the district at 740-420-5452.
FREE Earth Day coloring pages!
The Lorax
Bunny Buy Local
Thank You OCU students!
District Wide Household Hazardous Waste Collection 2017
Saturday, November 4th, 2017 - 9am-12noon - Adena Local Schools, Frankfort, OH
Ross & Pickaway Health District Tire Collections 2017
Ross County Health District - Tire Collection: Saturday, October 28th - 8am-12noon.
Pickaway County Health District - Tire Collection: Saturday, November 4th - 8am-12noon.
Clean Sweep Program: Pesticide Disposal Dates
Brought to you by The Ohio State University Extension
Pesticide collection is free of charge for unused agricultural pesticides, which includes agricultural crop production at greenhouses and nurseries. Paint, antifreeze, solvents and household or non-farm pesticides will not be accepted. For additional information, or to pre-register, please contact the ODA Pesticide and Fertilizer Section at 614-728-6393. Regional pesticide collections and disposals are sponsored by ODA and the USEPA.
August 10, 2017 9 am-3 pm
Delaware County
Delaware County Fairgrounds
236 Pennsylvania Avenue
Delaware, OH 43015
August 15, 2017 9 am-3 pm
Putnam County
OSU Extension Putnam County Office
1206 East 2nd Street
Ottawa, OH 45857
August 22, 2017 9 am-3 pm
Athens County
Albany Independent Fairgrounds
5201 Washington Road
Albany, OH 45710
2017 SPECIAL COLLECTION EVENTS
May 20, 2017 - Pickaway County
June 17, 2017 - Ross County
August 5 & 19th 2017 - Highland County
August 5, 2017 - Fayette County (Electronics event combined with Highland County)
Stay tuned! Information to come on this year's Household Hazardous Waste event is coming soon!
Date: November 4th
Location: Adena High School, Frankfort, OH
Time: 9am-1pm
EARTH DAY!
Check out activities in your County for this year's Earth Day, April 22, 2017.
Ross - 20th Annual Scioto River Waterway Cleanup
Kenworth & Ross County Sheriff's Prescription Drug take back day!
Pickaway - Recycling Bin Meet and Greet, 10am-2pm
Come out and meet the employees of the district at various sites in the County. Get a FREE tote bag!
Highland - Recycling Bin Meet and Greet, 10am-2pm
Come out and meet your Outreach Specialist from the district at various sites in the County. Get a FREE tote bag!
Fayette - Recycling Bin Meet and Greet, 10am-2pm
Come out and meet your Outreach Specialist from the district at various sites in the County. Get a FREE tote bag!
Recycling takes priority in Pickaway and surrounding counties
By Amanda Plotts Staff Reporter
Since becoming headquartered in Pickaway County last year, the Ross, Pickaway, Highland, Fayette (RPHF) Joint Solid Waste Management District has been making strides to increase recycling throughout the four counties it serves.
The RPHF Solid Waste District was established in 1989 and manages disposal and recycling for nearly 200,000 residents. Recently, the district held a tire collection and electronics recycling day in Pickaway County, collecting a total of 1,532 tires and 3.5 tons of electronics.
“These events are part of what our solid waste district does,” said Tom Davis, district coordinator. “Usually, these are designed for residents in the county, primarily for cost purposes, but we are trying to promote district wide.”
One of the district’s new initiative was to create a paper recycling program in Pickaway County that Erica Tucker, RPHF Solid Waste District assistant, said is still a work in progress. She said the district recently partnered with the Board of Developmental Disabilities to hire an employee to empty the bins.
“She’s implemented a lot of good things since we’ve started,” Davis said of Tucker. “The county didn’t have an office recycling paper program in place. She started that and it’s a wonderful program.”
According to Tucker, the district’s primary funding comes from generation fees: county residents pay for trash service, companies takes the trash to a landfill, and the landfill pays $3 per ton of trash received.
Davis said the district collects $600,000 a year to help run programs such as scrap collection, recycling sites, and outreach work with schools and businesses.
“Our largest expense is maintaining bins,” Davis said. “We contract with Rumpke recycling to service those containers and we pay them about $175,000 a year to do that.”
Davis estimated that the district spends $15,000 a year cleaning up after improper recyclables and trash that are left at the sites, despite signs advising against the junk. An adopt-a-site program may soon be in the works so volunteers can help maintain the sites and keep them clean.
Tucker said she’d like to see more people take recycling seriously.
“Keep talking to the younger ones about recycling and strive for a better community,” she said.
For a complete list of recycling drop off locations and recycling services offered, visit www.rphfsolidwastedistrict.com.
Courtesy of: The Circleville Herald
Recyclers Crush Annual Record
Feb. 18, 2016 - Residents in Ross, Pickaway, Highland and Fayette counties recycled more than 7.8 million pounds in 2015, approximately 1 million pounds more than their 2014 annual record.