Claridon Trustees to Gate Recycling Yard
May 23, 2018 by Ann Wishart

Claridon Township Trustees are hoping to solve their messy recycling yard problem with the installation of a 6-foot-high chain-link gate across the driveway on Mayfield Road.

Claridon Township Trustees are hoping to solve their messy recycling yard problem with the installation of a 6-foot-high chain-link gate across the driveway on Mayfield Road.

For weeks, they have been discussing that people have been dropping off items like old stoves in the recycle bins and the township’s road worker has to spend hours at the yard to set it to rights.

Trustees voted May 21 to buy a solar-panel-operated gate for about $3,500, said Trustee Jonathan Tiber.

The two 12-foot-wide gates will have a keypad for deliveries or emergencies so they can be opened after regular drop-off hours. An exit sensor will open the gates to let people using the center out, he said.

“We have no intention of dropping the recycling program,” Tiber said, adding, if there is no improvement in the situation and the program is eliminated, the gates can be used at the township garage.

Trustees will continue to discuss the necessity of posting a camera at the recycle site to record abusers of the yard, he said.

The recycle bins are put in place and emptied by Geauga-Trumbull Sold Waste Management and are available to anyone in the county to use, but numerous townships have been having problems with abuse of the facilities and some have closed them.

Geauga County Commissioners had GTSWM place recycle bins at the county office parking lot 470 Center Street in Chardon.