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Commissioners,
re: https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/news/port-townsend-hazardous-waste-facility-to-close/ <https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/news/port-townsend-hazardous-waste-facility-to-close/>
Closing the Household Hazardous Waste/Moderate Risk Waste Facility will inevitably lead to most of those hazardous materials simply being put into the garbage,
For the one day, for a couple of hours, per week that the facility was open, the Solid Waste Manager could have staffed it himself!
Excuses, excuses …? Is this “management”?
Why not make recruit some local businesses so that consumers could take their small amounts of hazardous waste there, combined with the business’ own hazardous waste? The state-sponsored
paint recycling program <https://www.paintcare.org/drop-off-sites/> , in which Peninsula Paint participates, seems like a good model.
Speaking of management, there is still no one monitoring the recycling facility at the county transfer station to ensure that the right kind of recyclables are being placed in the right
bins.
The Solid Waste Manager needs to hold the contractor there to the agreement which requires such monitoring. We’re not getting our money’s worth.
Tom Thiersch
Jefferson County, WA