Old thinking: garbage in, garbage out.
Beacon thinking: Garbage in, jobs and money out.
Site work has begun and heavy construction is expected to begin shortly on the Hudson Baylor Corp.”™s 56,000-square-foot recycling facility in Beacon. The $17 million plant is expected to generate more than 150 construction jobs and 50 permanent, full-time jobs once completed in about a year.
The plant, to be located on a 17-acre site with more than 12 acres in Beacon, will leave a portion of the property undeveloped and will include a 100-foot-wide buffer parallel to the Fishkill Creek to be gifted to the city as part of its Greenway project.
The plant will accept recyclables from a 50-plus-mile radius that includes Dutchess, Orange, Ulster, Sullivan, Putnam and Westchester counties, as well as from Connecticut. Hudson Baylor estimates 60,000 to 70,000 tons of recyclables ”“ from single sources where all recycles arrive together; from dual sources that typically segregate the paper from everything else; and from commercial waste recycling streams ”“ will be processed in the first year.
Dutchess County Executive William Steinhaus met recently with Scott Tenney, president of Hudson Baylor for an update on progress, joined by Dutchess County Economic Development Corp. President John MacEnroe and Dutchess County Industrial Development Agency Chairman Michael Tomkovitch as well as other county and Hudson Baylor officials.
“Hudson Baylor is making a significant investment in our community, creating new jobs and providing a facility that helps all of us move toward making Dutchess County a greener place to live,” Steinhaus said in a statement. “We are committed to working with Hudson Baylor to help ensure the project”™s success.”
The project site is on 17.1 acres, with 12.3 acres in the city of Beacon.
The facility will include an education center for customers, schools and the community.
