Nu-Way Recycling Looks to Build C&D Plant in Florida

Nu-Way Recycling has won over several neighboring businesses that had fought plans to add a construction debris transfer station to Nu-Way's mulching operation in Hobe Sound, FL, but nearby homeowners remain opposed.

Nu-Way wants to build a 10,200-square-foot transfer station and office building as well as a sorting area for tires, metal, glass, plastic, wood and concrete on its 22-acre site.

The plans for the proposed facilities faced review by the Martin County Commission during a meeting earlier this month

Nu-Way has agreed to contribute $45,000 toward improvements at its facility, \and $5,000 for random code enforcement inspections, county records show.

"I think we reached a good compromise for us on Suzanne Drive," said Franz Metz, a construction company owner who has long criticized Nu-Way's mulching operation. "I think we'll be better off than with what we have now. It's just a mess out here right now."

Bill Brennan, president of Nu-Way, said his business has tried to be a good neighbor and the new facilities will help upgrade the operation. In addition, recycling facilities for construction debris and vegetative waste are sorely needed in Martin County, he said.

But Commission Chairman Lee Weberman, whose district includes Hobe Sound, said he is trying to balance the problems Nu-Way has experienced, including a fire in the summer of 2003 that took weeks to extinguish, against the improvements promised in the new plans.