Highlighting Solid Waste workers in Alachua County

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) -This month, Alachua County and city leaders are highlighting those in public works and solid waste.

Between 600 and 1000 tons of waste enter the Leveda Brown Environmental Park every day before it’s shipped off to New River Landfill in Union County.

“What we do is we bring all the solid waste from Alachua County, it comes to the transfer station here,” Allen Betz, the transfer station manager, shared. “And we put it in bigger trucks and send it up to New River landfill.”…

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