Posted By Iridian Casarez on Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 2:48 PM click to enlarge Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services Sofia Pereira has been named Humboldt County s new Public Health Director Arcata Mayor Sofia Pereira, who has also served as the county s Emergency Operations Center operation chief during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced she will be stepping down from the Arcata City Council by June 25 after being named Public Health s new director, replacing Michele Stephens. Starting June 27, I will begin a new chapter as the Public Health Director for the county of Humboldt, Department of Health and Human Services. I am honored and excited to take on this new role to serve our community and improve our community’s health and
Imagine someone walking down the street next to a newly constructed building. Suddenly, a defective cornice falls off the building, striking and killing the passerby. Tragedies are often quickly followed by finger-pointing.
If the incident had occurred a century ago and the victim’s next of kin had gone to court, the judge would have likely ruled that the death, happening after the work was done and approved, was caused by the building owner failing to inspect the condition of the cornice. For the contractor, it’s a different story. If it had performed shoddy work, it might have faced the owner’s wrath but not legal responsibility to third parties.
Posted By Kimberly Wear@kimberly wear on Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 3:13 PM Green waste drop-offs for Arcata residents with Recology service are temporarily on hold as the Wes Green Landscaping facility undergoes ownership changes but there are interim options in place, according to the city. For now, Recology customers in Arcata can go to the Wes Green site at 6360 with their load and check-in across the street to receive a voucher, which will need to be redeemed within 45 minutes at Humboldt Sanitation’s Transfer Station in McKinleyville or at HWMA’s Transfer Station in Eureka. According to a city of Arcata news release, regular service is expected to be up and running again in 30 days.
click to flip through (3) Shutterstock Bags and bags filled with recyclables were piling up in Kathy Hutchinson’s shed. She had been waiting for the Eureka Recycling Center to resume paying for California Refund Value bottles and cans after it closed in March due to COVID-19 restrictions, but the eagerly anticipated reopening was short lived. The center briefly resumed its CRV redemption services last September but an overwhelming demand caused traffic congestion and hazards on Broadway, which caused Humboldt Waste Management Authority to discontinue the service, which wasn t penciling out financially anyway. In 2010, Humboldt County had a total of 10 CRV redemption centers but at the beginning of last year only five remained. Now there are none, as centers in Fortuna, McKinleyville and Redway all closed their CRV programs in 2020, which partially led to the flood of demand that prompted the Eureka Recycling
Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash.
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In Humboldt County, California’s 33-year-old recycling buy-back program has completely fallen apart. A decade ago, the county had close to a dozen CRV [California Redemption Value] recycling centers places where you could haul your empties and trade them in for cash. By the start of this year only five remained. Now, amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the continuing collapse of scrap material values on the international market, none are left.
The Eureka Recycling Center (operated by the Humboldt Waste Management Authority), Humboldt Sanitation in McKinleyville and Recology Eel River in both Fortuna and Redway have all stopped operating their CRV programs. You can still drop off your recycling; you just won’t get money for it. And curbside recycling continues in many parts of the county, with customers paying for the privilege.