‘Dump Days’ duties

June 4, 2012

Photo by Angel Perkins

Beginning at 5:30 a.m. Friday morning May 18 about 20 town employees and administrators were on hand to accept loads of trash at the town dump during the annual “Dump Days.” By noon the first day the town’s Director of Operations, Rich Martin said about 75 vehicles had made their way through, relieving their drivers of excess baggage.
Some of the stranger items accepted as waste or to be professionally shredded were two paddle boats, a net with a dead goldfish in it and a deed dated in 1966. The town offers this service each year at no charge to Bremen residents to get rid of their items that normally wouldn’t be accepted for trash removal.
Bremen Town Councilman Trend Weldy assisted utility and street department employees with removing items loaded in trucks and Dan Ringer of the street and water department (top left) scooped and dumped refuse by the payloader scoopful.
Rick Weglowski of Tri Noble Secure Document Destruction and Paper Shredding out of Bristol (also a Clay Township firefighter) had the mammoth company shredder grinding away, changing around 10,000 pounds of paper into minuscule bits that will later be recycled. He said the giant shredder housed in the back of his mobile shredding truck can completely destroy (or chad) a 96-gallon tote worth of paperwork in two minutes. To learn more about confidential document (CD and DVD and more) disposal call 800-808-4613 or visit www.itsdestroyed.com.