Free Dump Days in Pictures

Solid Waste Management sponsors Free Dump Days each year: three days in the spring, three in the fall. People drop of unwanted items to be disposed of properly but many do not realize how much work is involved to process properly.

Solid Waste Committee volunteer Smitty Oliver checks person in.

Large trucks bring in empty dumpsters and haul filled ones away. Heavy equipment prepares to load dumpsters.

Picture shows just a few of the item-types that are brought in. (What cannot be recycled is loaded into the dumpsters.)

Furniture is loaded into dumpster.

Solid Waste Department Recycling Truck and Trailer will be filled and recyclables taken to Danville.

At first recycling trailer can be loaded by hand with small items, but then heavy equipment must be used to finish loading. Items are crushed and packed as closely as possible, filling trailer to the max before being hauled to Danville. At the recycling center in Danville materials are weighed and county is paid for scrap metal. Prices vary depending on market.

People bring in all kinds of "stuff" on Free Dump Days as (L-R) Don Rinthen, Mayor of Lancaster, and James Davidson, Convenience Center Manager, show.

Above pictures were taken Oct. 22, 2009 at the Convenience Center on Hanging Forks Road, Phone: 859-792-6353. For more pictures, please see our Facebook page: Visit Garrard County Kentucky, Photo Album, Free Dump Days.

Please see this blog, Categories posted (to left), listing, Free Dump Days, for more information about the program.

Garrard County Central Record: http://www.garrardcentralrecord.com/news/news3.html