Tubing and Mainline Recycling Event 2024
The Windsor County Maple Producers Association is planning another tubing and mainline recycle event for Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024 in South Woodstock at the Fire Station just off Route 106 on Morgan Hill Road. This event is co-sponsored by the Northwest, Greater Upper Valley, and South Windsor/Windham Counties solid waste districts.
Do you have some tubing and mainline already in a pile or are you thinking of taking down some tubing this fall? If so, you should consider bringing it in. Please pre-register with estimated volume in cubic yards between now and October 31 (an 8 foot bed pickup truck = about 1 1/2 to 2 cubic yards). Call or email Mary McCuaig to register or ask questions (cell 802-353-3035, landline 802-457-3779 or marymaple13@gmail.com).
Please feel free to share this event with other sugar makers; no need to be from Windsor County to participate!
There will be a charge to recycle, but if you remove the fittings and spouts ahead of time it's quite minimal. If it's not practical for you to remove them it's still pretty reasonable.
What you can bring in:
HDPE SAPLINE – the most commonly used line today and for the past 15 years. A small piece will float in water.
PLASTIC MAINLINE, any color, NO PVC
POLYCARBONATE SPOUTS, clear or tinted, single use spouts, called signature spouts by CDL. Please NO Nylon spouts.
BRING in your vehicle to So. Woodstock to be unloaded to a Roll off (Dumpster).
CHARGES AND PREPARATION:
- $23.00/Cubic Yard for tubing with fittings and droplines attached, coiled using tape.
- $7.00/Cubic yard for tubing WITHOUT fittings, coiled with little or no tape.
- $7.00/Cubic yard for mainline without fittings, wire or clamps, CUT into 3 FT PIECES
- Free for Windsor County Maple Producers Association members; contact Meg Emmons at windsorcountymaple@gmail.com to inquire about membership.
Suggestions for Preparation - Try removing the fittings as you pick up saplines in the woods. That makes it easier to coil tubing into small rolls of about 18 inches. Wind the line around itself to hold it together so very little or no tape is needed to secure the roll. Small rolls of tubing are more easily handled and can be stored in large boxes or in a pile. Fittings and spouts are not recyclable at this time, and although WCMPA members will not have to pay to recycle, we still strongly encourage you to take the time to remove as many fittings as possible from your tubing. Fittings will have to be removed before processing, which explains the price difference above. If removing the fittings is not practical for your operation, you can still coil the tubing around itself to make small rolls. Wire and fittings must be removed from mainline and mainline cut into 3 foot pieces. Pieces of mainline can be mixed in with the tubing. The charge will be at the lower rate of $7 per yard if it is mixed in with tubing that has had the fittings removed.
Please try to bring in relatively clean tubing. Some dirtiness is unavoidable, but leaves and debris disrupt the recycling process and are unacceptable.
Please pre-register with estimated volume in cubic yards now or by October 25 so we can anticipate total volume needs. Thank you!
Contact Mary McCuaig to pre-register or with questions:
Cell - (802) 353-3035 | Home - (802) 457-3779 | Email - marymaple13@gmail.com
Windsor County Maple Producers Association is sponsoring this event with help from Northwest, Greater Upper Valley, and So. Windsor/Windham Counties solid waste districts.
Please help keep plastics out of our landfills and support recycling projects.
