Free recycling event on Saturday sees an overwhelming response

 

[July 12, 2021] 

On Saturday, there was an overwhelming response to the opportunity for free disposal of old televisions in Logan County. The electronics collection event sponsored by Logan County government brought in hundreds of televisions as the line of vehicles snaked through the Logan County fairgrounds and extended all the way south to Fifth Street on Postville Drive.

A few minutes before 1 p.m. it was determined that the volunteers working to unload vehicles had taken all they could. Because the event was scheduled to last until 2 p.m., the dozens of cars still in line were directed to drive to the city of Lincoln Public Works building on the east side of town. There, the trash televisions were unloaded and will be hauled away at a later date.

Many of the vehicles coming into the fairground had multiple units for recycling, and the dozens of volunteers scurried to get the cars and trucks unloaded as quickly as possible.

Even so, several motorists reported that they were in line 90 minutes to two hours waiting their turn to get rid of their trash.

The event hosted by Logan County was manned by a large number of volunteers including members of Logan County government, Lincoln Street Department staff and some of the city’s aldermen, county board members, members of the local Boy Scouts, and others who just came to pitch in.

[Nila Smith]