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Coweta County, GA
Escambia County, Florida's Perdido Landfill
LRI - Landfilling and Recycling, Pierce County, WA

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Customer Spotlight: Coweta County, GA

Coweta County, GA

For those of you who have never heard of Coweta County, Georgia or towns like Newnan or Moreland or Senoia, you might know some of their former residents, like country music super star Alan Jackson who spent his childhood in Newnan, or Lewis Grizzard, the well known humorist and author from Moreland.  Perhaps you’ve seen movies like “Murder in Coweta County”, starring Johnny Cash and Andy Griffith or “Fried Green Tomatoes”, filmed in Senoia, home to RiverWood Film Studios who chose this region for its lush scenery and beautiful old homes.  Coweta County, located about 30 miles south of Atlanta, is the perfect mix of southern charm and progressive prosperity.

CCEMD– Just the Facts

The Coweta County Environmental Management Department plays a big role in keeping this area charming and is responsible for the day to day operations of the C&D Landfill, the Transfer Station and the closed MSW Landfill.  The County’s C&D Landfill is a 22 acre facility with approximately 18 years of disposal capacity left and it averages about 10-12,000 tons of incoming waste per year.  The County’s Transfer Station averages about 12,000 tons per year, and has been Coweta County’s primary MSW facility since their MSW landfill closed about 15 years ago.  

The Department serves a population of roughly 115,000 residents and provides a variety of progressive programs for recycling almost everything the residents can throw at them.  Matt Lovett, Director for Environmental Management and Landfill Operations is clear about the Department’s stance on recycling.  “We take recycling very seriously at our facility.  We recycle used oil and car batteries.  We have a propane tank recycling program.  We just launched an electronics recycling program to residents.  All of our tires are shipped to a facility where they are ground down and made into mulch for landscaping and athletic tracks.  We also have an extensive scrap metal recycling program at our facility”.  Residents are rewarded for their recycling efforts through the County’s “Pay-As-You-Throw” program, which allows residents to purchase garbage bags and drop them off at any of the 12 convenient compactor sites located throughout the county.  Since recyclables are free and can be dropped off at the same locations, residents keep dollars in their pockets by keeping recyclables out of their trash.     

Coweta County Chooses WasteWORKS-SQL

Coweta County joined the WasteWORKS family in April and have been putting the new WasteWORKS-SQL to work at their busy transfer station.  Cecil McGuire, with the County’s I.T. Department explained, “Our search for a great solution was quickly reduced to one vendor, Carolina Software, after a WebEx demo reviewing the controls and options the SQL database version presents. The ease of use is very user friendly and the staff like all the reports available along with the easy and quick entry.  The landfill operators did not have any problems at all during the training and the “Go Live” date, and no trouble at all since installation in April. The Carolina Software staff was very professional along with Environmental Management and I.T. in working together during the implementation and live production. This was a very transparent transition with no delays anywhere. We look to have a long term partnership here.”

With some thorough advanced planning and an unparalleled level of readiness by the County, WasteWORKS-SQL has already started making a difference in their day to day operations and management duties.  “The reporting options have been nice from a manager’s standpoint.  I have the ability to produce reports that were not possible with our old software.  Overall, transaction times have gone down from our previous system, which is what it’s all about.  Get the customer in and out as quickly as possible.  Our scales are linked to the software and ticket entry is quicker, thus making it quicker for the customer”, said Lovett.

Carolina Software welcomes Coweta County to the WasteWORKS family!  We appreciate their kind words and all of their efforts to make their installation a success!

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Escambia County, Florida's Perdido Landfill

Customer Spotlight:  Escambia County

Pensacola, on Florida’s Gulf coast, is known for beautiful, white sand beaches and the tourists that flock there each year, but in recent years it has also become known for incredibly bad luck when it comes to tropical storms and hurricanes.  Escambia County made an appearance in an earlier edition of WasteWORDS, which featured several hurricane battered Florida counties and their monumental mountains of storm debris.  So, in this edition we’d like to focus instead on how the Escambia County Solid Waste Department, which serves almost 300,000 residents of Pensacola and the surrounding area, does such an efficient and environmentally sound job handling the nearly 300,000 tons of waste produced in the county each year, and why they’re counting on a recent construction project to make a big difference for their operations.

No Longer Under Construction

Faced with 300,000 tons of garbage per year and a future of regional growth that promises to inflate this number, the Escambia County Solid Waste Department knew that their already over-burdened, two lane scale facility was going to have to be expanded to keep up and alleviate the current traffic issues.
In 2007, after many months of planning, work started on the addition of a third scale lane and a brand new WasteWIZARD automation system at the Perdido Landfill scale house.  By the end of the year, construction was complete and almost immediately the landfill saw an increase in efficiency—a new customer service tool that keeps drivers from waiting and keeps traffic in check.  The addition of a third lane means more than being able to handle a third more vehicles each day.  By combining the additional lane with dual WasteWIZARD and Vision automation systems (one on each side of the scale for handling both right and left  side drivers), the landfill has created a secure, high speed express lane for county and commercial vehicles, while providing the ‘mom’n’pop’ customers who typically require more time and attention, with a high level of service on the original two lanes.  And by handling the express lane traffic with automation, this also meant handling additional vehicles without having to add staff to an already tight scale house.  

Recycling Starts with Education

Like most municipal waste organizations Escambia County not only serves their community by promoting and educating their citizens about the importance of recycling, but they also preserve valuable landfill space and resources in the process.
The Solid Waste Management Department’s website is chock full of information and recycling links, and provides the following summary of their recycling services, “The Department of Solid Waste Management continuously promotes an education and awareness campaign to reduce, reuse, and recycle, and to encourage participation in the free programs offered to Escambia County residents.  Some of the programs offered are free drop off recycling, free Regional Roundups (collection in community of household hazardous waste and end of life electronics), Yard Debris, Educational Outreach Services, paint reblending and distribution, shoe reuse and recycling, and many more programs.  These services along with participation by the public, will make a significant difference in the amount of waste buried in the Escambia County landfill, and will reduce the risk of soil and groundwater contamination, as well as the risk of combustion from items that have been disposed of improperly.” 
If you’d like more information about Escambia County’s comprehensive recycling program, you can visit their website at (http://www.myescambia.com/departments/solid_waste_manag/default.php)  Just click the “Recycling” link on left side to navigate to the recycling department!

Escambia County has been a WasteWORKS customer since 1995!  They continue to be a shining example to the waste industry and we are proud to have them as a customer!

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LRI - Landfilling and Recycling- Pierce County, WA

Customer Spotlight:  Land Recovery, Inc. :  In Their Own Words

For 2008, we’re starting a new series of customer spotlights that use our customers’ own words to provide an interesting and unique perspective of their operations.  For this addition of the “In Their Own Words” series, new WasteWORKS customer, LRI (Land Recovery, Inc., a Waste Connections company) of Pierce County, WA has provided this inside look at their award winning operations and their progressive philosophy for managing solid waste and recycling in  their beautiful corner of the world. 

“Serving our customers for over 30 years, Pierce County Recycling, Composting and Disposal, LLC (LRI) is a solid waste processing organization that includes a 320-acre landfill, 2 transfer stations, 3 drop box facilities, a rail car system, 2 compost factories and a Recycling Collection Center all of which are located throughout Pierce County, WA. Most of our facilities are open 7 days a week and during the peak summer months will process over 1200 tickets per day. The population explosion occurring in the Pacific Northwest over the last 10 years has called upon us to work both harder and smarter to meet our customers' expectations. We have opened our new landfill, expanded existing facilities and personnel to meet the volume needs.  We are not, however, just about burying the waste. Home of the largest Compost Facility in the Pacific Northwest, we have over 3.5 acres of state of the art facility that can compost up to 250 tons per day. In 2007, we were presented the Outstanding Achievement in Organic Recycling Award by the Washington Organic Recyclers Council in recognition of our past and continued commitment to re-using our resources where possible. Our Recycling Center is an over 6,000 sq. ft facility whose staff is charged with educating the public in conservation practices, and providing an incentive to encourage recyclers to continue their good efforts. LRI feels that recycling is the best way to manage solid waste. 

Our future includes a continued partnering with local governments to seek out new and better ways to recycle and re-use and to educate others to assist in preserving our planet and its resources. We hope Wasteworks will assist us in our future endeavors by providing a more user-friendly reporting capability as well as consistency in operations compared to our other software products like MS Office.”

We’d like to thank the nice folks at LRI for contributing to this edition of WasteWORDS.  WasteWORKS has recently been installed at the five sites that make up LRI and we’re proud to have them on board.    If your organization is interested in contributing, please see page one for details on how to become a spotlight customer. 

From the LRI website:

LRI is proud to be one of the best landfill and recycling operations in the Pacific Northwest. We are proud of our accomplishments and of the spirit of cooperation within our company and also with all those we associate with. We value our positive relationships with our customers and Pierce County government. We believe our relationships have made us a success.

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 New, dual WasteWIZARD systems on a new, third scale help Escambia County efficiently handle traffic from both left and right side drivers!