What they are doing to be more “green”

All Volusia County offices recycle paper, cardboard, plastics, aluminum and steel cans. Individual recycling bins are provided to each employee to further encourage recycling. Volusia County recycles nickel cadmium and lithium hydroxide batteries. Post-consumer recycled paper is used in some divisions. This division also uses recycled crushed concrete and used roofing materials for various on-site projects.

This division administers a curbside recycling program for unincorporated residents, allowing homeowners to recycle mixed paper, cardboard, aluminum and steel cans, plastic containers and bottles. The county’s recycling program has consistently exceeded the state’s mandate of recycling at least 30 percent of municipal solid waste.

The 3,400-acre Tomoka Landfill has provided an environmentally safe location to deposit and bury the county’s municipal solid waste since 1972. The landfill offers a number of innovative programs to promote reuse and recycling, including:

• Collection and recycling of waste tires, scrap metal, fluorescent bulbs and lead-acid batteries
• Collection and recycling of residential electronics
• A paint exchange and household chemical swap shop
• Providing collection service for home fuel oil
• Maintaining 15 citizen recycling drop-off stations located at county Fire Departments
• Maintaining 17 used oil drop-off stations located at County Fire Departments
• Collection and recycling of white goods (appliances) to include the removal of harmful Freon gas.
• Grinding yard waste into mulch, which residents can take without charge
• Extraction of methane gas from the garbage cells, generating enough electricity to power 3,800 homes
• Collection of household hazardous waste for safe and proper disposal