Solid Waste Management District
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226 Middle Avenue, Fifth Floor
Elyria, Ohio 44035
Toll Free: 1 (800) 449-5463
Fx: (440) 329-5777
The Ohio General Assembly established the Solid Waste Management Districts of Ohio in 1989, and required each county to belong to one. Our District was set up to include the whole of Lorain County, plus all of the city of Vermilion. The responsibilities and duties of each District fall into two broad categories:
- To prepare and maintain a comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan, and measure progress toward its goals by collecting detailed statistics on recycling and solid waste disposal.
- To promote recycling, reuse, and reduction of solid waste through educational and informational programs, support of recycling businesses and organizations, and the direct operation or support of actual collection events and programs.
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NEW! Residents Are Ready for Pride Day Activities
On Saturday, May 19, 2012, join your friends and neighbors in clean-up, fix-up, spruce-up activities in Lorain County. Most communities are struggling just to provide needed services let alone pick up litter, weed, mulch and clean up parks.
People feel safer in clean, beautified areas and businesses prosper when their neighborhoods are clean and well kept.
Can we count on your help? If you can volunteer just a few hours, please contact a representative from the List of Participating Communities. Thanks for making Lorain County clean and green!
ODNR Grant to Fund Farm Tire Collection
The Board of Commissioners and the Solid Waste Management District are pleased to announce the expansion of our existing tire collection program to incorporate agricultural tires. The District was awarded an Ohio Department of Natural Resources Grant in 2011 to offset some of the costs associated with the disposal of these large tires.
A tire trailer and personnel with loading equipment will be in the south-west side of the parking lot near the Lorain County Collection Center, located at 540 S. Abbe Road in Elyria.
This collection is FREE to District residents that own or operate farm equipment. Pre-registration is required by calling (800) 449-5463. When calling, residents will need to know what size and quantity of tires they want to bring. On site, residents will be asked to present a driver’s license verifying proof of residency.
Pride Day Scheduled for Saturday, May 19, 2012
Pride Day is a county-wide event and a chance to take pride in your community. It’s a day set aside to clean up and beautify Lorain County. You don’t need any special talents to participate, just the motivation for a clean and safe neighborhood.
This year Pride Day will be held on Saturday, May 19, 2012, from 9 am - 12 pm. Lorain County celebrates Pride Day as part of Keep America Beautiful’s - Great American Cleanup. The Great American Cleanup, the nation’s largest annual community improvement program, brings the power of 3.8 million volunteers and participants to create local change. In 2011 volunteers cleaned, beautified and improved more than 30,700 communities in all 50 states.
If you would like to participate in Pride Day activities in your community contact Sally at (440) 329-5467 or by email at specora@loraincounty.us. Help to keep Lorain County clean and safe.
Third National Prescription Take-Back Day
The Prescription Drug Turn-In Program is an initiative that addresses a vital public safety and public health issue. Studies show that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including the home medicine cabinet. In an effort to address this ever-expanding problem, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), in conjunction with state and local law enforcement agencies throughout the United States, will be conducting their second National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on
Saturday, April 28, 2012.
The purpose of this National Take-Back Day is to provide a venue for persons who want to safely dispose of unwanted and unused prescription drugs, particularly controlled substances, from our nation’s medicine cabinets.
Further information such as participating state and local law enforcement agencies and locations will be posted on our website as well as on the official webpage for the U.S. Department of Justice, specifically under the National Take Back Initiative.
The Connect Your Community Program
 The Lorain County Board of Commissioners and the Solid Waste Management District are pleased to announce the District's involvement with Lorain County Community College, RET-3 Job Corp and Connect Your Community in a new national program. The program offers free refurbished computers to qualified applicants within Lorain County.
The applicant must complete an approximately 25 hour free computer course which offers basic computer and internet instruction. The purpose of the class offers individuals an opportunity to get life skills on the computer, instruction on high speed internet and how to do basic research on the internet. Upon completion, the individual can get their free desktop computer.
On December 21, 2010 the first group to complete the curriculum attended an event at Lorain County Community College to kick off the first 181 computers distributed in Lorain County. This new campaign anticipates distributing 1,750 refurbished computers in Lorain County by May of 2012. The program is currently administered in Lorain & Cuyahoga Counties through Connect Your Community, a division of the Cleveland Housing Network.
The District Presents its 2010 Recycling Awards
 On January 18, 2011 the Lorain County Solid Waste Management District awarded the 2010 Recycling Awards to area businesses for their outstanding efforts in recycling. Wal-mart received the Gold Commercial Award, Lorain Tubular received the Gold Industrial Award, Giant Eagle received the Silver Commercial Award, and the Ford Motor Company received the Silver Industrial Award.
The District sends out a survey each year to the businesses within Lorain County asking about the number of tons recycled and the number of waste streams they divert. The surveys are completed online in our Re-Trac program for convenience of participation. The District gives out awards in a commercial business and an industrial business category.
The District presented the awards to the recipients at its Business Round Table meeting. The awards were based on the number of tons recycled, the number of tons per employee and the number of waste streams. For additional information on this program, please contact the District at 1 (800) 449-5463.
Online Lending Library of Education Materials
The Lorain County Solid Waste District is proud to introduce an Online Lending Library for parents and educators to educate children about reducing, reusing and recycling. The catalog collection contains 45 educational books and movies that may be lended using an online form to Request Resources. For more information about the Lending Library, please contact Brandi Schnell, Solid Waste Specialist at (440) 328-2249, or email bschnell@loraincounty.us.
Join Our E-mail Newsletter & Notification List
In the past we have used every available means of advertising and publicizing the District’s programs and activities. But none has grown so quickly or been as effective as the simple email list we first offered in 2007. We have added some more features and merged our new email quarterly newsletter into the same system.
Our system is very simple, yet very secure. Whenever a new recipient is entered, a confirming email is sent to verify that there are no technical difficulties, and that the owner of the address actually did request being put on the list. Anyone may “unsubscribe” at any time, with just one email or a phone call.
The actual list that we keep on file is also very simple – just a name and an email address for each recipient. That means we have no unnecessary information that could be lost or stolen. Whenever a notice or newsletter item is mailed, the program creates a separate message for each address – so no one gets any other addresses printed at the top of their version. Finally, we guarantee that this list will never be used to send anything other than our own official notices and newsletters.
If you have decided to join, just click here to send an email to our office. Your computer will open up a pre-addressed blank email message. Just type your first and last names, and your email address; then send it on. Your confirmation email will arrive within a few days. You do not need to reply unless there is something wrong. Thank you for joining us!
New Parking Area for Visitors
Limited-time parking for visitors is now available in the parking lot at the corner of Middle Avenue and Third Street, directly across from the Lorain County Administration Building.
District Brochures Available Online
Our tri-fold brochures that explain our programs and discuss recycling topics are now available as PDF files. Other forms and printed materials will be converted as time allows. Please visit Reports & Publications to download PDF files of these materials.
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