MIXED PAPER RECYCLING

DID YOU KNOW...
1 ton of recycled paper saves 17 trees!

GENERAL RECYCLING TIPS

• Paper recyclables must be clean. Remove food, plastic liners, waxed paper or styrofoam packaging material from inside boxes.
• OOPS - your pizza boxes, paper plates and paper towels can't be recycled...they are contaminated and the Recycling Program cannot accept these items. Put them in the trash...not your recycling bag!

CURBSIDE COLLECTION

Once a week curbside collection of UNLIMITED amounts of MIXED PAPER is provided to residents living in single family homes and most townhomes and trailer parks in Howard County. An on-site, drop-off program is available to apartments, condominiums and other multi-family homes that use dumpsters for trash. Check with your Resident Manager or Management Office if recycling collection is not yet available to your community. Howard County can provide recycling containers to apartments or condominiums if requested by the management.

YES we accept...

• newspapers & inserts
• phone books
• junk mail (even window envelopes)
• CLEAN and EMPTY food & snack boxes
• paperback books
• hardback books
• greeting cards
• gift wrap
• mail order catalogs
• magazines
• paper towel & toilet paper tubes
• household paperboard boxes
• paper board egg cartons
• AND MUCH MORE....

Call 313-6444 if you have a question about a paper product

For details on how to recycle large boxes, see HOW TO RECYCLE CARDBOARD.

NO we can't accept...

• food contaminated boxes such as pizza boxes
• plastic bags or wrappers, or other waxed paper or boxes
• styrofoam
• paper towels
• tissues
• paper plates or cups
• foil-type gift wrap

HOW TO prepare mixed paper for curbside collection...

• Place in open top recycling bins, or in see-through plastic bags
• Please make sure the bin or bag and its contents are secure from the wind.

Sorry, mixed paper placed in black or non see-through plastic bags will be tagged and left at the curb.

Inclement Weather

During inclement weather, every effort will be made to continue to provide for scheduled collections. If collections are cancelled due to snow, ice, or other severe weather, pick up will be made the following week on your scheduled recycling day, if possible, or when road conditions permit. Call 410-313-6444 for cancellation and makeup information.

Holidays

Recycling collections are not made on the following six (6) holidays:

• New Year's Day **
• Memorial Day *
• Independence Day *
• Labor Day *
• Thanksgiving Day *
• Christmas Day **

* If your regular recycling day falls on one of these days, collections will be made the following week on your scheduled recycling day.

** If your regular recycling day falls on one of these days, collections will be made on the following day. When either of these holidays falls on Saturday or Sunday, collections will be made the following Monday.

DROP-OFF LOCATION

You can also recycle MIXED PAPER as well as many other recyclables at our ALPHA RIDGE LANDFILL RESIDENTS' CONVENIENCE CENTER
Hours: Monday through Saturday from 8 am - 4 pm.

PLEASE remember your 4's

when placing recyclables and trash
out for collection...

• UNLIMITED RECYCLABLES
  (however, 4 item per week limit for TRASH.)
• Each item under 40 pounds.
• Each item less than 4 feet long.
• Put out beFORE 6 a.m

Other sources of recycling information

Television: Cable Station GTV
White pages of your Bell Atlantic Phone Book explains Howard County's Recycling program
Local library: look in the reference section and at fliers stocked at information racks.