{"id":26362,"date":"2024-07-31T21:48:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T03:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/landfill-delays-recycling-for-paper-cardboard-and-plastic\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T23:38:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:38:29","slug":"landfill-delays-recycling-for-paper-cardboard-and-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/landfill-delays-recycling-for-paper-cardboard-and-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Landfill delays recycling for paper, cardboard and plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=1c7b92dc-81e4-4cf7-886f-bc1a35db433a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1511\" alt=\"In this archived photo from 2018, then-manager Shak Powers shows baled waste to a Journal reporter. Pickup of paper, cardboard and plastics has been paused this summer while the Montezuma County Landfill baler awaits repair.   (Journal file photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">In this archived photo from 2018, then-manager Shak Powers shows baled waste to a Journal reporter. Pickup of paper, cardboard and plastics has been paused this summer while the Montezuma County Landfill baler awaits repair.   (Journal file photo)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Recycling pickup for paper, cardboard and plastics has paused ever since the baler at the Montezuma County Landfill started having issues in May.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s now projected to be fixed by mid-August, pushed back from the initial estimate of the end of July.<\/p>\n<p>The broken part \u2013 the bale strap \u2013 is custom built and was delivered and installed recently. However, there\u2019s a programming issue and so the baler is still not working properly.<\/p>\n<p>The Cortez Public Drop-Off is accepting aluminum, steel and tin for recycling. They\u2019re also running a yard debris route.<\/p>\n<p>Once the baler is up and running, the drop off will have bins for cardboard and No. 1 and No. 2 plastics again.<\/p>\n<p>They do not accept glass or paper and haven\u2019t since the pandemic.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"naviga-map\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=37.3696697%2C-108.5880878&amp;z=15&amp;output=embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Map\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>won\u2019t be repaired until mid-August <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,60,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-26362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79326,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26362\/revisions\/79326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26362"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=26362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}