Update
JB's Salvage is applying for a permit to operate a Waste Transfer Station, not a Recycling Center.
To read the application, go to this link and, in the drop down menu under "Index" select "SW Program ID". In the box labeled "Value", enter "53-08"
The Herald-Times has not been helpful in providing accurate information. The H-T has called J-B's plan a "recycling center." It is not.
The proposal is for a permit for “solid waste processing facility”; classified as “new construction”. Beginning on p. 84 (of the 169-page permit applicaiton), it describes the Plan of Operation: “The facility accepts residential and commercial solid waste or municipal solid waste . . . from the City of Bloomington, Monroe County and surrounding counties [later identified on p. 118 as Owen, Morgan, Lawrence, Brown, and Green counties].
The facility processes approximately 100 tons per day of "waste.” It describes waste that is prohibited such as “hazardous waste, except CESQG hazardous waste” (I looked this up on the EPA website: “Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generators (CESQG) generate 100 kilograms [200 pounds] or less per month of hazardous waste, or 1 kilogram or less per month of acutely hazardous waste) and “PCB waste”. On page 97, it explains “there will be signs that say ‘Trash Drop Off Keep Right’ and ‘Recyclable Drop Off Keep Left’” which make it clear that it is more than a “recycling center.”
As JB's application says, it would handle “residential and commercial solid waste or municipal solid waste . . . from the City of Bloomington, Monroe County and surrounding counties”, including Owen, Morgan, Lawrence, Brown, and Green counties. This means that trash from other counties will come into the city on trucks, traveling on narrow streets, through neighborhoods, to be “sorted” in town, within one-half mile of several schools, etc. and right next to a PCB clean-up site.
