From Mayor Finch:
On Wednesday, June 27, Mayor Bill Finch will join DEEP Commissioner Esty and DECD Smith, and the Greater Bridgeport Community Enterprises/Green Team to celebrate the opening of the first, nonprofit mattress deconstruction and materials recycling enterprise, the only enterprise of its kind in the Northeast.
Park City Green is a collaborative business venture of Greater Bridgeport Community Enterprises/The Green Team, Family ReEntry’s Fresh Start Program and the St. Vincent dePaul Society of Lane County, Oregon, with support from the City of Bridgeport and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
“This enterprise represents the triple bottom line for the City of Bridgeport and the state,” said Mayor Bill Finch. “It is a sustainable business, taking apart mattresses and recycling the metal, foam, cotton, and wood; it will create jobs in the ‘green’ economy by hiring 25 ex-offenders and other low-income unemployed residents; and, it will help save the City and other municipalities on recycling costs, saving money on the bottom line.”
When fully operational, Park City Green will recycle 100,000 mattresses a year, removing 4,600 tons from the solid waste stream.
Park City Green is located in Bridgeport’s Eco-Industrial Park and is part of the City’s BGreen 2020 Sustainability Plan.
WHERE: Park City Green, 459 Iranistan Avenue (corner of Iranistan and South Avenues, near the I-95 underpass), Bridgeport, CT
WHEN: 2 to 3:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 27
Why not include stuffed chairs and couches, it would result in the same recycling savings.
Is this where Donald Neversley is going to so he can sleep on it?
Quick! Call Sleepy’s!!!
What you guys are stuffed with wouldn’t fit into a mattress!
Okay, am I missing something or did we just open another NON-profit, non-tax-generating business in CT?
Park City Green is a job-producing, revenue-generating, mattress-recycling company that’s also involved with a worthwhile cause. At home, a mattress is a bed but if anyone can see it, it’s called blight! I enjoy seeing mattresses recycled. The ceremony is a noteworthy event. I think it’s the logical step after bottles & cans. Green is cool. I hope Bridgeport can turn this into political capital because mattresses are everywhere and Bridgeport CT USA is where they will come to GO TO SLEEP.
Jennifer Buchanan and Local Eyes, you are both right. I like the project a lot though the Mayor has announced it as brand new news just about once a month for the last year so it feels pretty tired–but hey, if you have nothing else going on, you just keep recycling your mattress news.
Maybe the whores working in the Finch administration can get a discount on new mattresses.
For reasons that remain a mystery, Andrew C Fardy has been nominated for the coveted UPBEAT BLOGGER OF THE DAY award. I guess even doomfreaks need a holiday.
Local Eyes, pure and simple stick your award where the sun don’t shine. You think this is a great idea, right? All it means is we are taking more crap from the suburbs.
There is one other thing you forgot, we are contracted with Resources Recovery plant to provide a certain garbage tonnage every year. What is this going to cost us in new rates from them if we don’t meet the tonnage?
Garbage to energy plant, how’s that working out for Bridgeport?
The UI coal burning plant, how’s that working out for our kids and seniors’ health problems?
Now the piss-stained Finch & Co. Mattress Factory recycling plant.
What’s next, Billy? The recycling of Trojans from the Water Pollution Control Plant?
Finch is running around this City like DiNardo with a box of matches!
Andy,
It is definitely a dubious honor to receive a nomination announced by LE. If it were someone else who nominated you as UBOD that person would have told us who nominated you, so with no identity from LE, the only mystery is why he thinks his sarcasm directed at you is a secret. Fortunately, there is no second, discussion or call for tabling or a vote, so you will have to await another day to notch this award. Unless someone wants to ignore Robert’s Rules of Order? (And that sometimes occurs in this City, doesn’t it?)
What is not a mystery is LE does not live in Bridgeport as a property owning taxpayer. So when he starts making fun of those who are Bridgeport POT’s, why should anyone listen to him with any serious regard? Let the POTs now call the suburban wannabe out of order.
I liked the recycling idea for mattresses when I first heard it, and the linkage with folks re-entering the community from behind bars. Hard and dirty work for employees but it is work deserving of respect when it will save the City money today and down the road. Anybody have a chart on what processing 100,000 mattresses per year will save landfills? And will the real estate so used pay full taxes or a PILOT or no taxes??? Where will the mattresses come from … Bridgeport alone, or regional communities?
Merely a taxpayer, that’s the phrase used by those who add value in excess of what property owners pay in taxes. Aim knows no borders and is not geo-specific. Taxes are fixed; upside is unlimited and Bridgeport is on my map.
From Capitol Report today–
Where State failed, Bridgeport to lead way in mattress recycling–and it says NON-PROFIT–I am all for recycling–however, why does Finch think he can have it both ways–we have no tax base due to non profits in Bridgeport, then celebrate his launch of a new non profit–or at least one opened on his watch …?
June 25, 2012 at 4:21 pm by Brian Lockhart
State legislators during the recently concluded 2012 session failed to pass a law making Connecticut the first state in the nation requiring mattress producers recycle old mattresses.
The bill–intended to stop folks from littering the landscape with discarded mattresses–made it through the Senate but was not called for a vote in the House of Representatives before the General Assembly adjourned May 9.
Wednesday state and Bridgeport city officials will celebrate the opening of what they claim to be the first nonprofit mattress recycling facility in the Northeast.
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Mayor Finch, State DEEP and DECD Commissioners to Celebrate
Opening of 1st Nonprofit Mattress Recycling Facility
WHAT: On Wednesday, June 27, Mayor Bill Finch will join DEEP Commissioner Esty and DECD Smith, and the Greater Bridgeport Community Enterprises/ Green Team to celebrate the opening of the first, nonprofit mattress deconstruction and materials recycling enterprise, the only enterprise of its kind in the Northeast.
Park City Green is a collaborative business venture of Greater Bridgeport Community Enterprises/The Green Team, Family ReEntry’s Fresh Start Program and the St. Vincent dePaul Society of Lane County, Oregon, with support from the City of Bridgeport and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
“This enterprise represents the triple bottom line for the City of Bridgeport and the state,” said Mayor Bill Finch. “It is a sustainable business, taking apart mattresses and recycling the metal, foam, cotton, and wood; it will create jobs in the ‘green’ economy by hiring 25 ex-offenders and other low-income unemployed residents; and, it will help save the City and other municipalities on recycling costs, saving money on the bottom line.”
When fully operational, Park City Green will recycle 100,000 mattresses a year, removing 4,600 tons from the solid waste stream.
Park City Green is located in Bridgeport’s Eco-Industrial Park and is part of the City’s BGreen 2020 Sustainability Plan.
WHERE: Park City Green, 459 Iranistan Avenue (corner of Iranistan and South Avenues, near the I-95 underpass), Bridgeport, CT
WHEN: 2 to 3:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 27
Boom, shacka, lacka, lacka, BOOM.
www .youtube.com/watch?v=RGrF4Ilgiio
Here is the latest on the mattress fiasco. The Finch administration as usual did not have all the facts when they announced this deal. They just found out they would have to pay $5 for every mattress they ship to the Iranistan location. They have now decided they will not participate in this BS agreement and are throwing all the mattresses they saved back into the pit to be trucked out and burnt as they used to do.
Is there a time these assholes ever get anything right?
*** HOPE THERE ARE NO BEDBUGS, NO? ***