LIME CITY — The Perrysburg Township recycling program is undergoing its third expansion.
Material dropped off for recycling at 26609 Lime City Road continues to exceed capacity, sometimes
creating a mess with recyclables left outside of the bins.
“There are some growing pains here,” said trustee President Bob Mack.
The current 24/7 recycling program with Republic Services of Toledo was started June 25. Perrysburg
Township started with five bins and two were added before the end of the year. A second pick-up per week
also also added. Now another two bins will be added, to make nine total recycling bins.
A discussion on the subject happened at the regular Wednesday trustees meeting, because the mess
triggered a suggestion that the host site agreement might be terminated.
“We are not terminating tonight,” said Mack. “If there’s a trophy for most recycling, we would get it.
It’s off the charts.”
“This is a great program and we have to keep it,” said Trustee Gary Britten.
Township maintenance staff and Recreation and Recycling Department staff continue to be required to break
down cardboard and deal with recycling that is dropped off and not put in the bins.
Bob Warnimont, director of recreation and recycling, has doubts that two more bins will solve the
problem. He wants a third pick-up day.
He reported that cardboard continues to be a problem, because it is often not broken down as called for
in the instructions. He suggested that a bin be set aside just for oversized cardboard, such as large
appliance boxes.
Trustee Joe Schaller suggested a sign with instructions. When citations were suggested against
individuals who do not break down cardboard boxes, or otherwise follow the instructions, Schaller asked
how it could be known who violated the instructions.
Township Administrator Walter Celley said that many of the recyclables have addresses left on them. He
added that some of the recycling is also coming from the outside the township, because addresses have
been found from within the city of Perrysburg.
“It is a very popular location. In terms of sheer volume, it absolutely is the most popular location. No
other site has as many bins or as many pick-ups,” said Andrew Kalmar, county administrator.
The bins look like regular commercial dumpsters, but with large slot type openings in the lid.
“We very much appreciate the township working with us and we will continue working to get this absolutely
right,” Kalmar said.
“We think adding more containers should solve most of the issues,” he continued, “but we shall see. Since
you don’t know what people will bring week to week, it’s just a process we’re going through. We should
be getting close to matching the volume brought in with the volume picked up. It’s a good problem,
because the people are using the recycling facilities.”
The two news bins will be delivered to the county on Friday, at which point they can be dropped off to
the township the following week.