Recycling

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Recycling bins are serviced by a second truck and only items listed are accepted in the program. Please note that Rumpke utilizes a single truck to collect all recyclables and that the products are sorted and separated at a materials recovery facility. They are not placed in the landfill.

What Goes In Your Recycling Bins?

Newspaper and Mixed Paper

Not Accepted: Pizza boxes because of grease and food contamination.

Plastics

Not Accepted: Wide-mouth containers such as margarine bowls and whipped topping bowls, CD Cases, children's toys, oil jugs, plastic flatware, plastic bags, plastic buckets and garden hoses.

Beverage & Steel Food Cans

Not Accepted: Pots, pans, coat hangers and scrap steel.

Glass

Not Accepted: window glass, mirrors, light bulbs, drinking glasses or mugs and oven/cooking glassware (Pyrex)

How To Get A Bin

If you do not have a recycling bin or would like to obtain a second bin, please stop by City Hall, Monday through Friday 8:00 am until 4:30 p.m.

How To Handle Recyclables

Newspaper and Mixed Paper

All items are to be placed together in a brown paper grocery sack. Place sack(s) and/or corrugated cardboard (flattened in 2 foot by 2 foot bundles) inside or beside your bins, or in case of rain under the bin.

Plastics

This includes all items displaying the recycling logo with a number one or two. Please remove all caps or lids and rinse out. Plastic containers may be crushed to conserve bin space.

Beverage & Steel Food Cans

Cans may be crushed and lids may be placed inside the cans to conserve bin space.

Glass

Please remove the caps and rinse. Paper labels do not require removal.

Plastic Bags

Krogers will accept plastic bags.

Large Item Recycling

Items that are still useable can often be dropped off at a charity or picked up by other organizations.  These items will usually be donated to somebody in need or sold at a thrift store.

However, what do you do with a large item that you no longer want but it is not easily transported or is not wanted by Goodwill or other organizations? Some examples:  Oven, refrigerator, sink, couch, swingset, sand box, gas grill, yard furniture, TV antennae, firewood, television, bicycle, sports equipment, landscape timbers, extra bricks, lumber, roof shingles, old doors, useable paint, etc.

There is a local organized internet posting and email system just for this purpose.  At www.freecycle.org,This link leads to an external web site you can join the Cincinnati East group which includes Montgomery, Blue Ash, and communities east of us extending into many rural areas. There is not any cost involved. A member of our Environmental Advisory Commission has been using this system for years, and reports great success in putting items such as those above into other people’s hands.  His only word of advice is to read their instructions to make sure you avoid receiving more emails than you want. Take advantage of their posting system, or the ability to set up a free yahoo email account. The following is copied from the www.freecycle.orgThis link leads to an external web site web site:

"When you want to find a new home for something -- whether it's a chair, a fax machine, piano, or an old door -- you simply send an e-mail offering it to members of the local Freecycle GroupThis link leads to an external web site.

Or, maybe you're looking to acquire something yourself. Simply respond to a member's offer, and you just might get it. After that, it's up to the giver to decide who receives the gift and to set up a pickup time for passing on the treasure.

Our main rule: Everything posted must be free, legal, and appropriate for all ages.

Non-profit organizations also benefit from The Freecycle NetworkThis link leads to an external web site. Post the item or items you want to give away and specify that you wish the gift to go to a nonprofit cause. It's entirely your choice! It's a free cycle of giving. The Freecycle NetworkThis link leads to an external web site is incorporated as a nonprofit organization and is tax-exempt under the IRS 501(c)3 ruling."

Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL)

All Home Depot locations will accept used CFL's from residents at no charge at their customer service desks.

Television Disposal

Television sets can be recycled at the following companies:

It is recommended that you call ahead to get prices for recycling television sets.

Household Hazardous Item Disposal

Items listed can again be dropped off now through the end of October at Environmental Enterprises, Inc., on Spring Grove or Cincinnati Dayton Road for environmentally sound disposal. 

Acceptable Items

paint, pesticides, fertilizers, solvents, thinners, lawn pool chemicals, cleaners, household or auto batteries, prescription drugs, fire extinguishers, propane tanks, mercury, fluorescent bulbs, driveway sealer, gasoline, antifreeze, motor oil, and thermostats.

Unacceptable Items

radioactive materials, medical waste, explosive/ammunition, gun powder, heating oil tanks, tires, yardwaste, smoke alarms, garbage, roofing materials, appliances, computers/ electronics and fuel tanks.

For more information, call Hamilton County Environmental Services at
946-7700 or visit www.hamiltoncountyrecycles.org.Outside link

Drop off locations