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Volunteers Needed for Fish Habitat on Jan. 30

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The Fremont County Solid Waste Disposal District (District) is recycling Christmas trees to create fish habitat at Ocean Lake. The District will accept Christmas trees, at no cost, until January 29th at the Lander Landfill, Riverton Bale Facility and Dubois Landfill. Please remove all ornaments, tinsel and lights from the tree beforehand.

Volunteers are needed to help move the Christmas trees out onto Ocean Lake, and wire the trees to each other and cement blocks. When the ice melts in the spring, the trees then drop to the lake floor to provide fish habitat.

We encourage all sportsmen and those interested in enhancing the quality of aquatic life to come out and help this Saturday, January 30th starting at 9:00 am at Long Point on Ocean Lake.

For more information on volunteering contact Rene Schell, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, at 307-332-2688 or email rene.schell@wyo.gov.

Christmas Trees for Fish Habitat

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The Fremont County Solid Waste Disposal District (District) will accept Christmas trees, at no cost, immediately following Christmas Day until January 30th at the Lander Landfill, Riverton Bale Facility and Dubois Landfill for use as fish habitat in Ocean Lake. Please remove all ornaments, tinsel and lights from the tree beforehand.

To date there have been approximately 10,500 Christmas trees collected. The trees are tied together in groups of a dozen and weighted down with cinder blocks out on Ocean Lake. When the ice melts, the trees fall to the bottom of the lake and help increase the lake’s fishery.

The District, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD), and Inberg-Miller Engineering make this habitat enhancement project possible. The public is invited to assist with transferring the trees from Long Point out onto the ice, and wire them together and to the concrete blocks.

We encourage all sportsmen and those interested in enhancing the quality of aquatic life to come out and help on Saturday, January 30th!

For information on volunteering call Rene Schell, WGFD at 307-332-7723 or email at rene.schell@wyo.gov.

Electronic Waste Disposal Free Starting Nov. 1, 2015

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Beginning November 1, 2015, the Fremont County Solid Waste Disposal District will accept electronic waste for free at its Lander, Riverton, Sand Draw and Dubois facilities.

Electronic waste contains a variety of hazardous metals (metals listed by the Environmental Protection Agency under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act as hazardous), including large volumes of lead that is harmful to both human and environmental health.  Proper disposal of these products is essential to maintain safe and healthy drinking water.

E-Waste includes:

  • Televisions, computers and monitors, including CRT, LCD, and plasma displays
  • Laptop computers
  • Audio/Video (stereo equipment, VCR’s, DVD players, etc.)
  • Cell Phones
  • Circuit Boards (printed circuit board found inside a central processing unit.)
  • Computer Printers/Peripherals (inkjet, laserjet, mice, cords, keyboards, external drives, modems, etc.)
  • Copier/Fax Machines
  • PDA’s/Pagers
  • Print Cartridges
  • Calculators, adding machines, power backups
  • other such units or components that contain materials banned by the Department of Environmental Quality or Environmental Protection Agency.

Eliminating Hazardous Waste, Cleaning Our Community

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The Household Hazardous Waste and Electronic Waste Free Cleanup Event hosted by the Solid Waste District on June 13, 2015 was a success. There were 323 people who attended—159 participants in Lander, 135 in Riverton, and 29 Dubois participants—freely disposing of:

  • 99,000 lbs. of electronic waste
  • 345 gal. of chemicals
  • with a disposal cost of $46,000

Most of the electronic waste from the June event was disposed of with the Metech Company of Denver, Colo. The household hazardous waste materials collected were incinerated by the Clean Harbors Company.

Thank you to the following organizers:

  • Fremont County Weed & Pest
  • Popo Agie Conservation District
  • Lower Wind River Conservation District
  • Fremont County Extension Office
  • Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality
  • Dubois/Crowheart Conservation District