As executive director of the significantly rural Northeast Indiana Solid Waste District, Steven P. Christman, QEP, is a jack-of-all trades, and the master of them all as well. The four-county special use district is one of the state's few regional districts. Serving a primarily agricultural population of 156,000 across 1,468 square miles, it generates 200,000 tons of solid waste annually with landfills outside the jurisdictional borders. The district has a comprehensive rural recycling drop-off program in 17 locations and four yard waste composting facilities. The district is establishing solid waste convenience centers to accept not only solid waste, but also hazardous household waste and recyclables, including electronics, which Christman notes are trending in rural America. Christman recalls a perceived shortage of landfill space in the late 1980s.
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机译：作为东北印第安纳州农村固体废物区的执行董事，QEP的史蒂文·克里斯曼（Steven P. Christman）是千篇一律的行业，也是所有行业的主人。四县特殊用途区是该州为数不多的区域区之一。该公司主要为156,000名农业人口提供服务，覆盖1,468平方英里，每年产生20万吨固体废物，并在辖区边界之外填埋。该地区在17个地点实施了一项全面的农村循环再造计划，并设有四码废物堆肥设施。该地区正在建立固体废物便利中心，不仅接受固体废物，还接受危险的家庭废物和可循环利用的物品，包括电子产品，Christman指出，这在美国农村地区正在流行。克里斯特曼回忆起1980年代后期人们认为填埋场空间不足的情况。
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