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City of Longmont

Public Works & Natural Resources

375 Airport Road

Longmont, CO 80501

PRESORT STANDARD

US POSTAGE PAID

LONGMONT, CO

PERMIT 19

You mde difference! In 2010, city

residents recycled 18,000 tons of material.

Those materials include: curbside recycling

collection, recycling center collections, tree

limb diversion materials, and paper shredding

events. Tnk you for your tremendou

effort to divert wte from te lndll!

6500 ton collected curbside

1875 ton of recyclables collected at the CityRecycling Center

9600 ton of tree limbs and branches

22 ton of shredded material collected at shred events

28,775 ton of trash collected curbside

Thats 46,775 ton of materials collected, of which18,000 ton were recycled

Tt equl 38% diverion rte for Longmont!

YOUR GUIDE TO RECYCLING aND

COLLECTION sChEDULEs

Please use this guide to nd recycling

solutions for your home, school and business:

batteries, bottles, paper, shredded paper,

cardboard and bulky metals.

For more info:

www.ci.longmont.co.u/olidwte

City of Longmont Recycling

& Tree Limb Diversion Center

38% Diversion rateAn informational recycling center newsletterfor Longmont residents.

140 Martin Street

At this location you will nd the Tree Limb

Diversion Center where residents can bring

tree branches and leaves during regular

business hours.

This service is available to residents of the

City of Longmont at no additional fee.

Residents outside the City of Longmont will

be charged a small fee based on volume.

If there is not a bin for a particular item,please take it with you. You may contact us

by phone for additional information on how to

recycle items not accepted at this location.

You can drop off the following itemsat the Longmont Recycling& Tree Limb Diversion Center140 Martin Street

Recycle Drop Off: 24 hours a day/7 days per week

For Tree Limb Diversion Hours: 303-651-8416 or www.ci.longmont.co.us/solidwaste

Tree limbs, shrubs, bushes, and unbagged leaves (during business hours only)

Aluminum cans and foil

Steel cans and metal jar lids

Glass bottles and jars

Milk cartons and drink boxes

Plastic bottles (#1 #7)

Plastic screw-top jars (#1 #7)

Plastic tubs and cups (#1 #7)

Cardboard and brown paper bags

Ofce paper and unopened mail

Magazines and catalogs

Newspaper and phone books

Large paperboard items

Small, low-grade paper items


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Oct 15: Shred event at 140 Martin Street, 9am 1pm

Oct 17 Dec 9: Fall Lea Collection

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2011 Trash and Recycling Collection ScheduleHorario de coleccin de basura y reciclado

Monday East/Lunes Este

East side collectionColeccin del are Este

West side collectionColeccin del are Oeste

Tuesday East/Martes Este

Wednesday West/Miercoles Oeste

Tuesday West/Martes Oeste

Monday West/Lunes Oeste

Thursday West/Jueves Oeste

Wednesday East/Miercoles Este

Thursday East/Jueves Este

Jan 15: Shred event at 140 Martin Street, 9am 1pm

Jan 17: Martin Luther King Day (Trash and Recycling 1 Day

behind, City Facilities and Tree Limb Diversion Center Closed).

Feb 12: Shred event at 140 Martin Street, 9am 1pm

Feb 21: Presidents Day (Trash and Recycling 1 Day behind,

City Facilities and Tree Limb Diversion Center Closed).

Mar 11: Shred event at 140 Martin Street, 9am 1pm

Mar 26: Large Item Stop-N-Drop, 375 Airport Road, 8am 2pm

April 9: Hard to Recycle Event, 140 Martin Street, 9am 1pm

April 11 23: Spring Branch Collection

April 16: Shred event at 140 Martin Street, 9am 1pm

May 7: Landfll Drop Day, Erie Landfll, 6am 2pm

May 21: Shred event at 140 Martin Street, 9am 1pm

May 30: Memorial Day (Trash and Recycling 1 Day behind,


June 18: Shred event at 140 Martin Street, 9am 1pm

July 4: Independence Day (Trash and Recycling 1 Day behind,


July 16: Shred event at 140 Martin Street, 9am 1pm

July 30: Large Item Stop-N-Drop, 375 Airport Road, 8am 2pm

August 20: Shred event at 140 Martin Street, 9am 1pm Sept 5: Labor Day (Trash and Recycling 1 Day behind, City

Facilities and Tree Limb Diversion Center Closed).

Sept 10: Hard to Recycle Event, 140 Martin Street, 9am 1pm

Sept 10: Landfll Drop Day, Erie Landfll, 6am 2pm

Sept 16: Shred event at 140 Martin Street, 9am 1pm

Sept 17: Household Chemical Drop Day, 375 Airport Road,

9am 2pm

Nov 5: Shred event at 140 Martin Street, 9am 1pm

Nov 11: Veterans Day (City Facilities and Tree Limb Diversion

Center Closed)

Nov 19: Large Item Stop-N-Drop, 375 Airport Road, 8am 2pm

Nov 24: Thanksgiving Day (Trash and Recycling Thursday

collection 1 Day behind, City Facilities and Tree Limb Diversion

Center Closed).

Dec 17: Shred event at 140 Martin Street, 9am 1pm

Dec 26: Observance o Christmas Day (Trash and Recycling 1 Day

behind, City Facilities and Tree Limb Diversion Center Closed).

Dec 26 Jan 5: Christmas Tree Recycling

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Below is our Dirty Dozen hit list of the WORST THINGS

TO PUT IN YOUR GREY SINGLE STREAM RECYCLING

CART. Please help make our single-stream recycling

program a success by keeping these materials OUT.

When is PickupTrash is picked up once per week. Recycling is

picked up once every other week on your trash

collection day and must be out by 7 a.m.

HolidaysTrash and recycling collection is not provided

on the following nine holidays: New Years Day,

Martin Luther King Day, Presidents Day, Memorial

Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day,

Thanksgiving, & Christmas. Because of this, if your

collection day falls on the holiday, or later that

same week, your collection will be one day behind

for that week only.

We want to make recycling as easy as possible

for you. Single stream recycling allows for all

recyclable materials to go into one container (grey

container). The only thing you have to do is empty

and rinse! Please do not atten aluminum cansor containers.

Used Automotive Oil Heats Up the

Public Works Maintenance Facility

The sanitation division has a motor oil collection site located at the City Recycling

Center. The oil collected is reused to heat two buildings located at the Public Works

Maintenance Facility. Each year, our collection site receives about 4,000 gallons of

used motor oil. This in turn means lower costs to heat buildings and reuse of used

motor oil. If you ve motor oil tt you need to dipoe of, you cn bring it by te

City Recycling Center in non-opque continer, (gllon milk jug). No cemicl

plee. Te collection ite i open ix dy week: MondyWednedy from 8:30

.m. to 4:30 p.m. Turdysturdy from 8:30 .m. to 5:45 p.m.Just bring your

utility bill indicating you are a trash subscription customer and present that to the

person at the window and they will direct you to the collection bins.

Recycle It Right

Single Stream Items Cereal boxes

Cans (do not crush)

White and pastel colored ofce paper

Phone books, newspapers, magazines

Glass bottles and jars

Plastic bottles and jugs (#17)

Metal jar lids

Corrugated cardboard

Single Stream

Trash

Non-Trash ItemsPlease DO NOT put these

items in the trash cart

Hazardous waste

Liquid paint

Needles or syringes

Cooking oil

Loose or hot ashes

Recycling Basics

Call 303-651-8416for more information

Oil and battery dropoff is located at

140 Martin Street, the Longmont

Recycling and Tree Limb Diversion

Center. Alkaline batteries are not

recyclable and may be placed in

your trash.

NO Pltic Bgin single-stream recycling cartPlastic bags are the WORST contaminants

in the recycling cart. They get wet and

dirty and cannot be recycled. Plastic bags

can be recycled at Eco-Cycle CHaRM or

at participating grocery stores if they are

clean, dry and empty. Find grocery storerecycling locations at www.ecocycle.org/

htrg.

NO Mteril in Pltic Bgin single-stream recycling cartWorkers have to slow the conveyor belts

to rip open bags that contain recyclables

and then add the bag to the heap of bags

bound for the landll. These inefciencies

waste time and money.

NO sredded Pperin single-stream recycling cartShredded paper is too small to sort.

The pieces get wet, gum up the sorting

equipment and cause it to malfunction.

Recycle shredded paper in the bin marked

Paperboard at the Longmont Recycling

Drop-off Center.

NO scrp Metlin single-stream recycling cartScrap metal items of any size should not

go in your curbside cart. These items

cause excessive damage to the recycling

equipment. Please take these materials to

the Longmont Recycling Drop-off Center

and look for the bin marked Scrap Metal.

NO hzrdou Wtein single-stream recycling cartHazardous waste such as paint, automotive

uids, car batteries and pesticides

must be taken to the Boulder County

Household Hazardous Waste Facility, NOT

the Recycling Center. Call 303.441.4800

for more information. The LongmontRecycling Center accepts car batteries and

motor oil for recycling. See hours above.

NO Diper orBiohzrdou Wtein single-stream recycling cartSyringes, needles, diapers and other

sanitary products are not recyclable. Visit

www.ecocycle.org/htrg for information

about handling sharps safely.

NO Non-Recyclble Plticin single-stream recycling cartWhile we have added new plastic items,

many plastics are still not recyclable

because there is no market to accept them.

Plastic lids, Styrofoam and any other

plastics not listed in these guidelines are

not recyclable.

NO Flttened Continerin single-stream recycling cartThe Single-Stream sorting equipment

separates ats (paper) from rounds

(containers). When containers are

attened, the equipment mistakenly

sends them to the paper side of the

facility, signicantly contaminating the

paper were sending to market.

NO Cp or Lidon Gl Bottle or Jrin single-stream recycling cartMetal lids can be removed and recycled loose

in the bin. Plastic lids and caps from glass

bottles and jars should be thrown away.

NO Liquidin single-stream recycling cartWhen we compact bottles for shipping,

liquids drip and splatter, creating a sticky,

smelly mess on the sorting oor. Please

completely empty and quickly rinse out all

containers before recycling.

NO Cermic orNon-Recyclble Glin single-stream recycling cartCeramics, china, dishes, mirrors, light

bulbs, Pyrex, porcelain and window glass

should not go in the cart! Their different

melting points and chemical compositions

will ruin new glass bottles. If our buyer

sees just one of these on the top of a load

of glass, the entire load could be rejected.

NO Frozen Food Boxein single-stream recycling cartPaperboard boxes that were designed

for frozen foods, such as frozen pizza and

entrees, have a plastic polymer sprayed

on them to protect against freezer burn.

That same coating prevents the box from

breaking up in the recycling process. These

materials are not recyclable OR compostable.

Printed with Permission by Eco-Cycle. Copyright Eco-Cycle 2010.


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For year round service, please take your hard to recycle items to:

CHaRM site, Eco-Cycle: Call 303-444-6634 or visit

www.ecocycle.org/charm/index.cfm

Longmont Recycling Informationwww.ci.longmont.co.us/solidwaste

Longmont Recycling Center140 Martin Street

Hours: 24 hours a day/7 days a week303-651-8416

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Your Recycling Challenge:Reduce or eliminate the number of

plastic bags you throw in the trash.

RECYCLINGUPDATE!

Hard-to-Recycle Events

2011 Schedule: April 9 and September 10, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Please call us at 303-651-8416 or visit our website

(www.ci.longmont.co.us/solidwaste).

Where: City Recycling Center, 140 Martin Street

Items Accepted: Computers, electronics, and cell phones are

among the items accepted. There is a fee for recycling certain items.

For more information, call Public Works Operations at 303-651-8416.

Household Hazardous Chemical Drop-Off

2011 Schedule: September 17, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Where: Public Works Maintenance Facility, 375 Airport Road

Items Accepted: City of Longmont sanitation subscription customers only

(please bring your utility bill as verication) may bring unwanted cleaners,

solvents, pesticides, aerosol cans, paint, and other chemical wastes for

disposal at no additional charge. Chemists will be on-site to identify and

properly dispose of many types of household hazardous chemicals.

Not Accepted: Commercial generated wastes of any kind are not accepted.

This event is for chemicals commonly used for residential purposes ONLY.

For year round service, please take your hazardous materials to:

Boulder County Household Hazardous Waste Facility: currently located at5880 Butte Mill Road, Boulder.

The facility will move to its new location, just down the street, to 1901 63rd Street, Boulder in the Spring of 2011.

Please call ahead to verify days and hours of operation at 303-441-4800, or visit

www.co.boulder.co.us/recycling/hhw/hhwhome.htm.

Curbside Leaf Collection

2011 Schedule: October 17 December 9, curbside by 7 a.m.

Where: Curbside

Residents may place bagged leaves only at street curbside during

the designated week.

Leaf collection information will also be published in the CityLine,

Longmont Life, and the Times-Call this fall. For your convenience,

a limited number of compostable leaf bags are available throughout

the City Departments prior to and during the event.

After Halloween, we provide Halloween pumpkin composting at the

Recycle Center at 140 South Martin Street. Refuse collection customers

are welcome to dispose of their pumpkins in the tree limb pile.

Large Item Stop-N-Drops

2011 Schedule: March 26, July 30, and November 19, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Where: Public Works Maintenance Facility, 375 Airport Road

Items Accepted: Sanitation subscription customers may bring large

household items for disposal. If bringing any kind of lumber, all nails must be

removed. City employees will unload your items, as you will need to remain

in your vehicle when on the Public Works Operations property. You must

bring your City of Longmont utility bill to the Stop-N-Drop, as the program is

available at no additional cost.

Not Accepted: Household waste, dirt, rock, sod, concrete, roong materials,

chemicals, limbs, yard waste, tires, auto parts, hazardous waste or

refrigerators. Please call Public Works Operations at 303-651-8416 for

recommendations on how to dispose of these items.

Special Recycling Events in Longmont

About 89 billion plastic bags, sacks and wraps

are used each year in the U.S.

According to the EPA, about 12 percent of

plastic bags and wraps were recycled in 2007.

A ve-year-long study by the OceanConservancy found that small plastic bags

made up about 9 percent of the debris found

along various U.S. coasts.

Surveys routinely show that more than 90

percent of consumers reuse their plastic bags

at least once for things like wastebasket liners,

lunch totes and pet waste pick-up.

Plastic bags are not accepted in either curbside

collection or the Citys Recycling Center (jams

up the processing equipment).

You can return your plastic bags to grocery

store drop off sites for recycling.

All major retail grocers

in Longmont offer

plastic bag collection.

It is now OK to recycle plastic caps from plastic

bottles and jugs. Just screw them back on

the empty bottle or jug and toss it into yourrecycling container. The bottle recycling market

has expanded to accept plastic caps, as long as

they are on the container. Plee note: METAL

CAPS on glass bottles are recyclable, but they

should ALWAYS be removed

from the bottle before

recycling. They are

recyclable, but separate

from the bottle.

Did YouKnow?PLASTIC BAGS

Use reusable grocery bags.

Take your plastic grocery bags back to your

retail grocer. All major grocery stores in

Longmont have a collection point at the front of

the stores to take back plastic grocery bags!

City dog parks can also reuse your plastic

grocery bags, just drop by one of three dogparks and ll up the doggie bag dispenser with

your unwanted bags. The City dog parks are

located at Airport Rd and St. Vrain Rd, 21st Ave

and Francis, and at the Rough and Ready Park

on 21st near Sunlight Drive.

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