Curbside Recycling Schedule for 2011

[Townsend]

http://www.cityoftulsa.org/environmental-programs/recycling/curbside-recycling-service.aspx

If you want the convenience of curbside recycling, you can get pickup service every other week for an additional $2 charge on your monthly utility bill. Your recyclable newspaper, junk mail, magazines, office paper, plastic, glass and aluminum will be collected by the City's contract hauler. To sign up, call (918) 596-9777 or sign-up online. Your first bin is free. You also may purchase a second bin for $4, a lid for your bin for $3, or a wheel kit for $4.

[RecycleMichael]

recycling is good.

[Conan71]

Having green bins has made me a complusive recycler.  One question I've got is junk mail.  I've been putting it in a paper bag with used envelopes and other paper bags.  Does all that get recycled and can I put old phone books in there? 

Is there a way I can get the weekly sales circulars stopped from coming to my house or phone books?  I never use a phone book anymore.  I hate seeing the waste as I generally throw the sales stuff directly in the bin.

[Hoss]

Having green bins has made me a complusive recycler.  One question I've got is junk mail.  I've been putting it in a paper bag with used envelopes and other paper bags.  Does all that get recycled and can I put old phone books in there? 

Is there a way I can get the weekly sales circulars stopped from coming to my house or phone books?  I never use a phone book anymore.  I hate seeing the waste as I generally throw the sales stuff directly in the bin.

Hmm...we were told newspaper and magazines only as what goes in the recycle, but that's here nor there really as I typically shred anything with my name/address on it for privacy purposes.

Since I stated that, can the remants of the shredding be recycled via the green bins?  Or anywhere else for that matter?

[OpenYourEyesTulsa]

Having green bins has made me a complusive recycler.  One question I've got is junk mail.  I've been putting it in a paper bag with used envelopes and other paper bags.  Does all that get recycled and can I put old phone books in there? 

Is there a way I can get the weekly sales circulars stopped from coming to my house or phone books?  I never use a phone book anymore.  I hate seeing the waste as I generally throw the sales stuff directly in the bin.

From their website:  "No hardbound books, paperback books, telephone books, wax paper, cardboard or fiberboard"

You can take your phone books to the Met recycling centers.  I also take my cardboard there.

The site doesn't say anything about whether they recycle paper bags.  I assume that if you put something in the bin that they don't accept, it gets tossed in the trash.

I wish the curb side recycling or Met recycling centers would take plastic shopping bags.  I know the stores take them but it is not as convenient.

[Hoss]

From their website:  "No hardbound books, paperback books, telephone books, wax paper, cardboard or fiberboard"

You can take your phone books to the Met recycling centers.  I also take my cardboard there.

The site doesn't say anything about whether they recycle paper bags.  I assume that if you put something in the bin that they don't accept, it gets tossed in the trash.

I wish the curb side recycling or Met recycling centers would take plastic shopping bags.  I know the stores take them but it is not as convenient.

Interesting.  I've put plastic bags in my green bin since I started and they've never said anything about it.

[OpenYourEyesTulsa]

Interesting.  I've put plastic bags in my green bin since I started and they've never said anything about it.

It says on their site that they don't take plastic bags.  I assume they take them but in the sorting process the unacceptable items are thrown in the trash.

PLASTIC Unacceptable Materials: Bottles marked with a number other than #1 or #2, including tubs for yogurt and butter, reusable food containers, and plastic bags

http://www.cityoftulsa.org/environmental-programs/recycling/curbside-recycling-service.aspx

[RecycleMichael]

Yes. The plastic bags are thrown away.

The groceries take them back and we are working on taking them at our centers, but not yet.

Better yet, avoid them if possible. Pay attention to how they bag your groceries and you can cut way down on them or even better, bring your own cloth bags whenever possible.

[godboko71]

bring your own cloth bags whenever possible.

I have an idea for cloth bags to buy them from the library (same size as the ones at the super market) or any other charity. Then your helping the world in more then one way.

[HoneySuckle]

Everytime we travel, we bring back cloth bags from other countries/cities as a souvenir and to help with recycling.

We drop our stuff off weekly at Met recycling.  This way I can take phone books.  Still trying to figure out how to STOP them delivering those darn books~   I think they accept light bulbs now, don't they?

[jne]

Well, I received my convenient card a few days ago displaying the recycling schedule and promptly stuck it to the fridge. Thing is, they didn't show to pick it up on the scheduled day (yesterday).  The entire neighborhood still has the tubs out at the curb unserviced.  First time its ever been missed that I know of - even with the interim contractor.  Anyone else having trouble?

[RecycleMichael]

Call 596-9777 and file a complaint.

The city will respond and notify the contractor.

[Gaspar]

Having green bins has made me a complusive recycler.  One question I've got is junk mail.  I've been putting it in a paper bag with used envelopes and other paper bags.  Does all that get recycled and can I put old phone books in there? 

Is there a way I can get the weekly sales circulars stopped from coming to my house or phone books?  I never use a phone book anymore.  I hate seeing the waste as I generally throw the sales stuff directly in the bin.

I take all of our junk mail and put it in the pre-paid return envelopes of the other junk mail that we get.  I'm sure Capital One is thrilled to get valuable coupons from Homeland.  This gets it out of my trash and helps to put a dent in the 7 Billion dollar deficit that the US Post Office runs every year.

If everyone did this it could reduce the amount of junk sent in the mail by transferring additional money to the Post Office from the junksters and credit card companies.

[Conan71]

I take all of our junk mail and put it in the pre-paid return envelopes of the other junk mail that we get.  I'm sure Capital One is thrilled to get valuable coupons from Homeland.  This gets it out of my trash and helps to put a dent in the 7 Billion dollar deficit that the US Post Office runs every year.

If everyone did this it could reduce the amount of junk sent in the mail by transferring additional money to the Post Office from the junksters and credit card companies.

That's freaking rich!

[carltonplace]

I take all of our junk mail and put it in the pre-paid return envelopes of the other junk mail that we get.  I'm sure Capital One is thrilled to get valuable coupons from Homeland.  This gets it out of my trash and helps to put a dent in the 7 Billion dollar deficit that the US Post Office runs every year.

If everyone did this it could reduce the amount of junk sent in the mail by transferring additional money to the Post Office from the junksters and credit card companies.

Bwaaa-ha-ha!