Happy Holidays from the Harrisons

Recycle Your Christmas Tree

The Harrison Family wishes a Merry

Christmas and Happy Holidays to you,

our customers. There also is no better

time to thank you and the communities

we serve, and as we enter our 85th year

in business we promise to maintain the

highest level of service to you in 2017 –

and beyond.

Our motto has always been “Service

is Everything,” and in recent years we’ve

added “Moving toward Zero Waste.” We’re

Give the Earth a gift by recycling your Christmas

tree. E.J. Harrison & Sons and the City of Ojai

m ake it easy for you, so do the right thing.

All you need to do is remove the orna-

ments, hooks, lights, tinsel, bows, nails

and tree stand. Cut the tree into four-foot

sections and place in your tan yard waste

barrel on your scheduled pickup day.

Also, E.J. Harrison & Sons now ac-

cepts fl ocked Christmas tree for

recycling.

Trees we collect will be pro-

cessed into various sizes of

mulch. The material is used by

our strategic partner Agromin

to make several products that

benefi t our farmlands, or-

chards, nurseries and our own gardens.

Extra Trash Allowed After Holidays

As a special holiday feature, E.J. Harrison & Sons’

customers may put out twice the amount of

trash at no extra charge during the two weeks after

December 25. Please make sure the trash is in bags

alongside the green trash barrel. We also collect extra

recyclables, but please make sure to fl atten all boxes

and place alongside the blue recycling barrel as well.

working hard – with your help – to achieve this goal.

We hope you all celebrate during this joyous time

with family and friends, and that you can refl ect on

the message of peace and goodwill in our world. We

also hope that our military personnel overseas are safe

and will return home soon.

Again, we wish you and yours the very best this

Holiday Season and a Happy and Prosperous New

Year!

Ralph, Jim & Myron Harrison

City Seeks Residents’ Help in Street-

Sweeping Program

Recycling News for Ojai Residents

Winter 2016FlashTrash

The City of Ojai asks for your co-operation in its street-sweeping

program.Street-sweeping services are re-

quired as a best management practice to reduce the amount of trash and other pollutants from entering the storm drain system, rivers and ocean. The pres-ence of parked cars on sweeping routes reduces the ability of the sweepers to do an effective job.

All City streets are swept on the fi rst and third Tuesday of each month – the day following your Monday trash pickup. Help keep Ojai beautiful by not parking on the street in commercial areas before 7 a.m. and in residential areas between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. on street-sweeping days.

Please do your part to keep your streets clean. By moving your trash containers and cars off the street on these days, the cleaner your streets will be. Also remember, streets drain into our storm drains which empty into our rivers and ocean.

For more information or if you have ques-tions, call Ojai’s Public Works Department at 646-5581, ext. 209.

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2017 Holiday ScheduleLooking ahead, these are the holidays

that will delay trash collection one day: Memorial Day Monday, May 29 Independence Day Tuesday, July 4 Labor Day Monday, Sept. 4 Thanksgiving Thursday, Nov. 23 Christmas Monday, Dec. 25

These are the holidays that will not delay trash collection one day:

New Year’s Day Sunday, Jan. 1 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Monday, Jan. 16 Presidents’ Day Monday, Feb. 20 Veterans Day Saturday, Nov. 11

Your Recyclable Materials Go to Good Use

Thanks for doing the right thing by recycling.

Through your efforts you are helping divert tons

upon tons of reusable materials from our landfi lls.

Here’s where your recyclables go.

Gold Coast Recycling Center & Transfer Sta-

tion:

Wonder where the aluminum cans, glass bottles,

paper materials and plastics you place in your blue

curbside container go after they are collected by a

Harrison Industries truck? How about all those mate-

rials you see at construction and demolition sites, like

concrete, asphalt, wood, bricks and steel?

They all come to Gold Coast Recycling Center &

Transfer Station, a state-of-the-art, 75,000-square-foot

facility located on 7.8-acres at 5275 Colt Street in Ven-

tura that opened in 1990. Using state-of-the-art sort-

ing equipment, Gold Coast Recycling is able to divert

over 90,000 tons of recyclable materials each year for

reuse, locally and around the world.

Gold Coast Recycling also serves as a buy-back

center, paying top prices for aluminum, newspaper,

cardboard, junk mail, magazines, paper, plastic bottles

and glass.

Got e-waste? Gold Coast Recycling also accepts

your old computers, TVs, printers, VCRs, fax ma-

chines and small kitchen appliances, free of charge.

Gold Coast Recycling is open 5 a.m. to 7 p.m.

weekdays and 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays. For more

information, visit www.goldcoastrecycling.com.

Agromin:

For two decades, Harrison Industries has trans-

ported all the grass clippings, tree branches and leaves

that you place in your brown yard waste container to

Agromin Premium Soil Products, based in Oxnard.

Each year, Agromin uses cutting-edge technology

to convert almost 380,000 tons of green waste materi-

als into its organic mulches, compost, wood chips and

other products that naturally fertilize plants and trees.

Agromin also is in the planning stages of trans-

forming its existing green waste compost facility on

its 9.6-acre site in the Santa Clara Valley into a 26-acre

Biogenic Energy Park that will convert food waste into

biogenetic renewable energy.

Agromin has more than 240 premium soil prod-

ucts and sells them at 41 retail locations in Ventura

County and throughout Southern California and on-

line at www.agromin.com. These products save water,

help reduce soil erosion and reduce the use of non-

organic fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides – making

our air and water cleaner.

Agromin

Gold Coast Recycling Center & Transfer Station

Trash FlashPage 3

Winter 2016

2017 Pickup Schedule/Street Sweeping Schedule^

*Pickup delayed due to holiday^Next day after Pickup

The fi rst and third Tuesday.

*January 3 RecyclingJanuary 9 Green WasteJanuary 16 RecyclingJanuary 23 Green WasteJanuary 30 RecyclingFebruary 6 Green WasteFebruary 13 RecyclingFebruary 20 Green WasteFebruary 27 RecyclingMarch 6 Green WasteMarch 13 RecyclingMarch 20 Green WasteMarch 27 RecyclingApril 3 Green WasteApril 10 RecyclingApril 17 Green WasteApril 24 RecyclingMay 1 Green WasteMay 8 RecyclingMay 15 Green WasteMay 22 Recycling*May 30 Green WasteJune 5 RecyclingJune 12 Green WasteJune 19 RecyclingJune 26 Green WasteJuly 3 RecyclingJuly 10 Green WasteJuly 17 RecyclingJuly 24 Green WasteJuly 31 RecyclingAugust 7 Green WasteAugust 14 RecyclingAugust 21 Green WasteAugust 28 Recycling*September 5 Green WasteSeptember 11 RecyclingSeptember 18 Green WasteSeptember 25 RecyclingOctober 2 Green WasteOctober 9 RecyclingOctober 16 Green WasteOctober 23 RecyclingOctober 30 Green WasteNovember 6 RecyclingNovember 13 Green WasteNovember 20 RecyclingNovember 27 Green WasteDecember 4 RecyclingDecember 11 Green WasteDecember 18 Recycling*December 26 Green Waste

Go to www.ejharrison.com/pickup-schedule/ to view your pickup schedule online.

3,000 Volunteers Make Coastal Cleanup Day a Big Success

The 32nd annual California Coastal Cleanup Day on Sept. 17 was a major success in Ventura County

and across the state. This annual event is about much more than picking up trash. It’s a chance to gather as a community to show our respect for our ocean, wa-terways and local habitats.

Thousands of cigarette butts, bottle caps and lots of plastic bags, as well as other trash, were removed and prevented from going out to sea where they would have had a negative effect on marine life.

California Coastal Cleanup Day began in 1985 and has grown to one of the largest volunteer events on the planet. In Ventura County, about 3,000 volunteers came together at more than 20 sites to do their part to clean up our local beaches, rivers, creeks and parks. More than 8,000 pounds of trash and recyclables were collected and prevented from entering the ocean and waterways.

Harrison Industries was happy to participate in this worthwhile cause by providing free trash and recycling bin service at several sites in Ojai, Ventura, Camarillo and Carpinteria.

Tonnage fi gures collected statewide in 2016 are not yet fi nalized, but in 2015 more than 68,000 volunteers removed nearly 1,143,000 pounds of trash and recy-clables from California’s beaches, lakes, and water-ways. That’s 571.5 tons!

Next year’s event is set for Sept. 16, 2017, so mark your calendar. For more information visit www.vc-coastalcleanup.org.

Remove Curbside Barrels Following Weekly Pickup

Reminder: E.J. Harrison & Sons reminds

residential customers that city ordinances

require you to remove your curbside barrels after

weekly pickup. So remove them and keep them

out of sight – except on pickup day. Thank you.

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Printed on Recycled Paper

STOPNo Hazardous

Waste!!These items are NOT accepted for

Trash or Recycling.

u Hazardous Waste u Tires u TVs/Computer Monitors u Batteriesu Closed Containers u Oil or Paintsu Fluorescent Light Tubes u Medical Needles

For information on how to dispose of these items,

please call: • County of Ventura Hotline 658-4323

E.J. Harrison & SonsRecycling, Yard Waste and Trash Guidelines

What goes in the Trash?

What Doesn’t go in the Trash or any other cart?

Hopefully, very little. After you have recycled, composted, fi lled the yard waste cart, donated old clothing and goods, and done all of those good things and more – most of the rest can go in the trash.

How to Place Your Cart for Automated Collection

The automated arm of the collection truck needs room to grab the cart. Carts should be placed 2-3 feet apart from each other and from objects such as mailboxes and cars with the wheels facing the curb.

Carts should be out by 7 a.m. on collection days.

2-3 ft.2-3 ft.

Trash Flash

City of OjaiCity Manager: Steve McClary • Mayor: John Johnston

council Members: Paul Blatz, Susa Francina, Randy Haney & William Weirick

Extra trash?Call for roll-offs and bin rentals.

Open 6 days a week for self-haul trash, e-waste and recyclables buy-back.

Complete the recycling loop... get mulch and soil amend-ments at:

(805) 642-9236

www.ejharrison.com www.agromin.com

(805) 647-1414

www.goldcoastrecycling.com

(805) 485-9200

CartonsNew Item Accepted

Aluminum &Metal Cans Glass

Containers

Paper/Junk Mail

Newspaper

Magazines

Cardboard

Cereal, Cracker & Shoe Boxes