The Monterey Regional Waste Management District Barn Owl Project is the ongoing story of a collaboration between their employees, a specialist wildlife rescue organization and the Salinas High School Green Academy. While building the new MRF 2.0 recycling facility a family of Barn Owls and their eggs were found behind an old sign...
The Monterey Regional Waste Management District covers a total of 853 square miles. District jurisdictional boundaries include the cities of Carmel-by-the-Sea, Del Rey Oaks, Marina, Monterey, Pacific Grove, Sand City, Seaside, and the unincorporated areas of Big Sur, Carmel Highlands, Carmel Valley, Castroville, Corral De Tierra, Laguna Seca, Moss Landing, Pebble Beach, San Benancio, and Toro Park. We serve an area with a population of approximately 170,000 residents and several thousand businesses and institutions.
The year 2016 marks the 65th anniversary of the founding of the Monterey Regional Waste Management District. Our mission today, Turning Waste into Resources, reflects a theme that has guided our
operations from the beginning.
The first order of business when we were initially formed back in 1951 was to find a suitable site for a sanitary landfill. We're extremely fortunate that our Board of Directors had the vision to buy the large 475-acre parcel of land we have occupied since 1965, at 14201 Del Monte Blvd., Marina, CA 93933.
We hope that the videos you will find on this Vimeo channel will help illuminate the history of our programs, while shining a light toward the future. From our early cardboard recycling in 1953, the first production of electricity from landfill gas in 1983, the establishment of the Last Chance Mercantile in 1991, to our Materials Recovery Facility that came on-line in 1996 and is currently being comprehensively updated.
The integrated facilities we operate today embody our mission and provide essential community infrastructure to reduce, reuse, recycle, and safely dispose of non-hazardous municipal solid waste. Our mission is to Turn Waste Into Resources in the most cost effective and environmentally sound manner to benefit the community.
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