In the Rural areas of Washington County, Swatco provides Monthly Residential Recycling. Recycling day is your first service day of the month.
Rates:
Rural Monthly Recycling Only: $6.52 per month.
Place the following items all together in the red recycling bins:
- Newspaper
- Magazines
- Scrap Paper
- Milk Cartons
- Metal Cans
- Aerosol Cans
- Scrap Metal
- Plastic Bottles with necks (i.e. Milk jug is OK, but no food trays or plastic bags) Starting November 1st, 2007 accepting plastic tubs (yogurt, butter etc) Plastic buckets, and rigid 4 inch diameter and larger plastic planting pots.
On The Side
Place motor oil and glass to the side of the red recycling bins as follows:
Motor Oil: Pour used motor oil into a "see-through," unbreakable container with a screw top lid. No other liquids will be accepted. Place next to your red recycling bins.
Glass: GLASS BREAKS! When mixed with other recyclables, glass can damage machinery and pose a safety hazard to workers.
Remove lids, rinse thoroughly, and place glass in a rigid container (bucket or bin) to separate glass from other materials. Place bucket next to the red recycling bins. Do Not Place Glass in Paper or Plastic Bags!
No broken glass, cookware, window glass, mirrors, light bulbs, or drinking glasses.
Materials Not Accepted in Residential Recycling
Proper preparation is important to make recycling work. Do not place these into your residential recycling. For information about how to recycle these items or other “hard to recycle items,” contact Metro Recycling Information Center at (503) 234-3000.
Plastic Bags: Do not place plastic bags in recycling containers - they jam machinery and disrupt operations at the processing facility. Intead, recycle used plastic bags at grocery stores.
Plastic Caps, Lids and Tops: No plastic caps, lids, or tops accepted in residential recycling. These items tend to "nestle" inside paper products headed for the paper mill . Those that are less than 2" in diameter and don't mix with paper, tend to falll through the sorting screens.
Transparent plastic deli containers and bakery/vegetable "clamshell" or blister packaging (think of rigid packaging requiring a knife to open) are not part of the residential recycling program.
Block Styrofoam or Peanuts:
Currently there are no local vendors who recycle block Styrofoam. The easiest answer is to dispose of it in your curbside trash.
Reuse Idea: Styrofoam peanuts can often be taken to local mailhouses for reuse.
For more information on Washington County Recycling visit: