 The Crow Wing County landfill changed its expanded summer hours to its expanded summer hours this week. Our A.J. Feldman took a trip to the landfill to see how your trash gets handled and cared for. Every day is different. First, I remember a lot of stuff I used to learn in high school, science, and all of a sudden they told you never use it. Yeah, you use it. Doug Morris is the solid waste coordinator of the Crow Wing County landfill where he keeps the county as clean as possible. I think it's not clean in the last 10 years, and it was 30 years ago with all these opportunities. Now if you see stuff, people don't really have any excuses. The landfill offers a way for residents to drop off numerous items for safe disposal, whether it's oil, TVs, or other household appliances. Air conditioners separate because there's a lot more steel or a lot more metal in those. Microwaves, we got to put out the capacitor first so we keep them separate. Then you've got a regular scrap metal, then you've got wash and dryers, we want to look out for it to make sure they don't have any mercury switches on them. Once we check through them, then we throw them in the pile. And our last part of it is like, uh, freezers and refrigerators. The landfill has a household hazardous waste facility where county residents can dispose of products that contain toxic components. 1,600 people make drop-offs every year, and those that can still be used are offered back to the public. A lot of people bring in stuff that's perfectly good yet. So this is free to anybody in Corwin County that won't come here and pick the stuff up. Morris says he gets calls all the time about people looking for thrown out items, but it doesn't usually work out like in the movies. Now, if they get lucky and we catch them before they dump, now they have better luck doing that because they can judge kind of where and how low it is. You have a better chance to find it before they dump it. It may not be a glamorous job, but it's a very important one nonetheless. Reporting in Brainerd, A.J. Feldman, Lakeland News. The landfill is now open from 8 to 5 Monday through Saturday. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.