Medina County Solid Waste District
Central Processing Facility Fact Sheet
January 2015

THE MEDINA COUNTY SOLID WASTE FACILTY (CPF)

IS OPEN & RECYCLING!
The Medina County Solid Waste District has historically managed solid waste programming/activities through a
single operating contract. This fact sheet provides information regarding the District's continued management
of its existing solid waste functions - transfer, disposal, recycling processing or resource recovery of solid waste,
recyclable material and yard waste through separate and individual contracts. The District has coined this
management method, "The Sum of All Parts".

KEY INFORMATION
The Board of Medina County Commissioners (Board), acting in its capacity as the Medina County Solid Waste
District (District) owns the 45+ acre parcel located at 8700 Lake Road, Seville, Ohio, home of the District's Solid
Waste Facility (Facility). The current solid waste processing contract with Envision Waste, LLC., expires on
January 11, 2015. The Board has elected not to pursue a 5-year contract extension, and instead has
authorized the District to proceed with bidding separate and individual contracts. The District employs six (6)
County personnel that will remain at the Facility to operate the scale house, manage the multiple on-site
contractors and to continue existing District programming. The first of several contracts to be managed by the
District was awarded to Kimble Company for Interim Transfer, Transport & Disposal of mixed solid waste
(MSW) from the Facility beginning January 12, 2015.
The following is a detailed description of EXISTING and NEW contract opportunities and program initiatives that
the District is actively working towards:

DROP OFF RECYCLING CONTINUES AT THE FACILITY!
The District has historically operated a drop-off recycling program for multi-material collection at the Central
Processing Facility (CPF). In year 2012, of the 4,327 tons of recyclable material shipped to market from the
CPF, a total of 559 tons of recyclable materials were collected via the recyclable drop-off bins at the CPF, plus
395 tons of glass collected via the County-wide glass igloos, representing twenty-two percent (22%) of all
materials recycled. The recycling bins at the CPF remain available to County residents who prefer to drop-off
recyclables and will not be affected by the on-going contractual changes. We are also happy to announce that
beginning January 12, 2015, glass may once again be included with the recyclables dropped off at the 8700
Lake Road location as well as all plastics #1-#7. Drop-off recycling will soon be expanded to offer additional
community recycling opportunities.

NEW - SINGULAR COMMUNITY DROP OFF RECYCLING CONTRACT
The District will soon be expanding drop-off recycling opportunities to thirty seven (37) other/additional County
wide single stream drop-off locations. The term "single stream" defines all recyclable materials, including
paper, newspaper, glass, plastics, aluminum, steel and cardboard (fiber) to be placed into a single bin. The
successful bidder of this contract opportunity will service the bins and process the recyclable material through
their single stream processing system to ship recyclables to market. "Single Stream Recycling" is a common
method used for recycling throughout Ohio and the United States. The District is pursuing agreements with
other local governmental entities, i.e. Cities, Townships, Villages, School Districts, to site the community
recycling drop-off bins as a partnership arrangement and to make recycling opportunities more convenient in
our neighborhoods.

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 YARD WASTE DROP OFF CONTINUES AT THE FACILITY!
The District will continue to accept yard waste at the Facility at no charge. In year 2012, the District accepted
11,025 tons of yard waste at the CPF. That same year, the District sold 7,469 bags of "soil enricher", 140 tons
of bulk compost and 121 tons of mulch. Yard waste will continue to be managed at the Facility, but will also be
expanding to make drop-off more convenient and accessible to County residents.

NEW - SINGULAR CLASS IV COMPOST FACILITY CONTRACT
The District will soon be expanding yard waste composting opportunities to include three (3) satellite locations
for acceptance of yard waste within the District. The District is pursuing agreements with other local
governments, to site the satellite yard waste locations as a partnership arrangement to make the drop-off of
yard waste more convenient to our densely populated areas.

NEW - SINGLUAR MIXED WASTE PROCESSING CONTRACT
The District recently commissioned an independent assessment of the existing mixed waste processing
equipment to make determinations in the strategy for bidding this component of solid waste management
performed at the facility. The assessment has provided valuable information to the District for the preparation of
bid documents. With detailed information regarding the existing equipment, it is expected to encourage a wide
response from eligible bidders.

SPECIAL WASTES RECYCLING CONTINUES AT THE FACILITY!
The District has historically managed individual and separate contracts for the collection and recycling of special
wastes (household hazardous waste (HHW), electronics, tires, appliances, fluorescent bulbs, etc.) The District
will continue to bid out and manage these twice annual collections/programs and offer expanded services
through cost effective measures to further increase awareness and participation.

EDUCATION AND OUTREACH EFFORTS CONTINUE!
The District has historically provided solid waste education and outreach to residential, commercial and
industrial sectors of the community. The District intends to increase its contact and programming within local
schools, civic groups and communities. District personnel recently met with Medina County School's
Educational Service Center Curriculum Committee to discuss an in-school presentation schedule on the
management of resources and the solid waste stream. District personnel also met with the superintendents
from all of the Medina County school districts to discuss potential partnerships between the Districts and
individual school districts for the placement of drop-off recycling containers on school-owned property that could
be complemented by the District's educational and outreach offerings.

Thank you for your continued support of District operations and recycling in Medina County
Please direct any questions regarding District operations directly to District personnel as follows.
We welcome the opportunity to talk with you, your group, to meet and/or to host a tour of the CPF.
Amy Lyon-Galvin, P.E.
Sanitary Engineer
phone: (330) 723-9589
email: alyon@medinaco.org

Beth Biggins-Ramer, S.C.
Solid Waste District Coordinator
phone: (330) 410-5573
email: bbiggins-ramer@medinaco.org

Prepared by Medina County Solid Waste District, 8700 Lake Road, Seville, Ohio 44273, January 8, 2015
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