Board Meeting Minutes
Pollinator Day Event
Recycle Floyd County recently hosted a booth at the Pollinator Day Event at Purdue Research Park. We had a great turn out and some visitors signed up for a prize drawing. Here are the winners:
- Sandy Jacobi, won the Blue bird House
- Bruce Parson, won a bottle of local honey
- Tammi Jones, won the Bee’s N Things Bee Trap
- Kim Bennett, won a bottle of local honey
- John Richey, won the Bee Kind Bee House.
Thanks to all who participated in the event and congrats to our winners! If you haven’t picked up your prize yet, you can visit the Recycle Center North Annex at 2005 Grant Line Road.
Brownie Troop Volunteers
Troop 24 from Southern Indiana volunteered at the Annex Recycle Center on Grant Line Road! The troop includes girls from Georgetown Elementary, Greenville Elementary, and Floyd’s Knobs Elementary. Pictured from left to right:
Emma Doggendorf, Claire Deibel, Cici Hamilton, Nora Loughmiller, Savanah Adams, Hannah Pitts
Troop leaders: Jenny Deibel and Angelica Doggendorf
Back row: Recycle Floyd County Director, Scott Stewart
Contacts
Floyd County Solid Waste Management District
2524 Corydon Pike Suite #103
New Albany IN 47150
(812) 948-4733
Scott Stewart
Director
[email protected]
Office Hours
Monday – Friday
8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Board of Directors
Brad Striegel
Board President,
Floyd County Council
John Schellenberger
Board Vice President,
Floyd County Commissioner
Al Knable
Floyd County Commissioner
Jason Sharp
Floyd County Commissioner
Jeff Gahan
New Albany Mayor
Adam Dickey
New Albany City Council
Brandon Hopf
Georgetown Town Board
Recycling Centers
Address
3005 Grant Line Road
New Albany
(812) 948-4733
Hours
Tuesday – Friday
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturday
9:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Household Hazardous Waste
April – October, 2nd Saturday of each month
9:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Address
Galena Digital Library
6954 Highway 150
Floyds Knobs
(812) 948-4733
Hours
Wednesday
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Statistics
When we recycle one ton of paper, we prevent 60 pounds of air pollution.
Floyd County only contributed 786 tons of recyclables in 2020, while our neighbor Clark County was able to produce 26,395 tons. We can do better!
Indiana’s recycling rate is 19.1%, while the national average is 35%. Indiana’s low recycling rate leads to the creation of 2.35 tons of new landfill waste per person every year. We can do better!
Indiana recycling increased slightly from 18.6% in 2019 to 19.1% 2020.
The recycling rate reached a high of only 20% between the years of 2015-2020.
Clark-Floyd landfills receive approximately 1,200 tons of waste every day.
In 2020, Indiana disposed of 6,212,494 tons of waste through in-state landfills and an additional 482,561 tons in out-of-state landfills.
Indiana’s produces 8,882,318 tons of waste from landfills, energy, recycling, composting, E-waste.
The United States makes up 4% of the world population but is the number 1 producer of garbage.