COLLECTION CURBSIDE RECYCLING MADE EASY! GUIDELINES GASTON Gaston residents receive weekly garbage and recycling collection. RECYCLING GUIDE Please place containers at the curb by 6 a.m. Three (3) feet apart with lids opening toward street. At least three (3) feet from cars, trees, mailboxes. Wheels as close to the curb as possible. Please remove containers as soon as possible after collection. Do not overstuff carts. All materials must fall freely into the truck.
Maximum allowable weights: 20-gallon cart –35 lbs 35-gallon can - 60 lbs 60-gallon cart - 120 lbs 90-gallon cart - 145 lbs
MIXED GARBAGE RECYCLING 3 feet 3 feet
GLASS Gaston residents can mix all paper, cardboard, metal, plastic Set Out Every Week bottles and tubs in their recycling carts. Only glass and motor oil need to be recycled seperately. HAZARDOUS WASTE Printed on 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper Look inside for detailed recycling and garbage service information. Do not dispose of hazardous waste products (i.e. content? with recycled Can I buy this item
paint, fluorescent light bulbs, pesticides, gasoline, I use it? after this item Can I recycle Can I buy this item used or with less packaging? Can I buy this item solvents, etc.) in your garbage. For information on again? Can I, or someone else, use this item where to dispose of hazardous waste, please visit 1-800-808-5901 Reduce: Reuse: Recycle: Buy Recycled: 1525 B St. Forest Grove, OR 97116 1-800-808-5901 wmnorthwest.com/gaston and then Recycle Reuse Reduce, www.metro-region.org. Did you know? producing from comes footprint carbon Most of an item’s disposing of it. from comes and using it – only a small percentage Before you buy, use or discard an item, ask yourself: GastonResGuide2012 www.wmnorthwest.com/gaston CURBSIDE RECYCLING GUIDE WHY RECYCLE? Mix these items together in your recycling cart. BEYOND CURBSIDE By recycling you are helping to save energy, reduce water pollution, reduce water consumption, preserve natural resources and create jobs. INCLUDE KEEP OUT RECYCLING Newspapers, Includes ads, inserts, phone No rubber bands or ENERGY SAVINGS books and paperback books. Magazines, plastic bags. Recycling aluminum saves 95% of the Catalogs energy needed to produce new aluminum from raw materials. Energy saved from ELECTRONICS RECYCLING Scrap and Junk mail, envelopes, office No bath tissue, paper towels, recycling one ton of aluminum is equal to shredded paper, greeting cards, paper freezer boxes, coffee cups or Forest Grove Transfer Station the amount of electricity the average home paper egg cartons, paper tubes, paper coated with food, wax, 1525 B Street, uses over 10 years. wrapping paper and cereal foil or plastic. -(Keep America Beautiful) boxes. Put shredded paper Forest Grove in paper bags. Open Monday-Saturday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Recycling one glass container saves enough Cardboard Flatten cardboard boxes. No wax-coated cardboard or energy to light a 100-watt bulb for 4 hours. food residue. Bring up to seven working or non-working -(U.S. EPA) laptops, televisions, computers, computer Milk cartons Milk, soup, stock, soy, No plastic straws. monitors and peripherals (keyboards, mice, Recycling one ton of plastic milk jugs saves Drink boxes juice cartons. Rinse clean. printers etc.) for free recycling. enough energy to light a home for a year. -(U.S. EPA) Plastic bottles All plastic bottles. No plastic lids, trays, bags, Car batteries and extra curbside recyclable items can be recycled take-out boxes or motor oil, pesticide or herbicide at no cost. containers. Large appliances and passenger tires (smaller than 16”) are ENVIRONMENTAL SAVINGS No plastic lids, trays, bags, Plastic tubs Yogurt-type containers accepted for recycling for a small fee. Recycling 1 ton of paper saves 17 mature trees, 7,000 gallons (6 oz. or larger), rigid plant take-out boxes or motor oil, pots (4 in. or larger) and pesticide or herbicide of water, 3 cubic yards of landfill space, 2 barrels of oil, and buckets (5 gal. or smaller). containers. 4,100 kilowatt-hours of electricity - enough energy to power the average American home for five months. -(U.S. EPA) Aluminum foil Crumple foil into loosely No food residue. MAIL IN RECYCLING PROGRAMS packed balls. Waste Management offers affordable mail-in THINK OUTSIDE THE BIN collection programs for batteries, electronics, Conserve recources by reducing waste. Metal cans Aluminum, tin, empty and No plastic caps. Do not sharps, toner cartridges and compact fluorescent Aerosol cans non-toxic aerosol cans and flatten or puncture cans or · Buy products in bulk to avoid unnecessary packaging. Reuse old bags or steel food and beverage cans. remove nozzles. light bulbs. Rinse food cans. Put metal lids containers instead of getting new ones each time. inside cans and crimp closed. Visit www.thinkgreenfromhome.com · Choose reusable mugs, water bottles and bags. Store extras in your car or at Scrap metal Smaller than 30 inches in any No plastic,wood or other for more information. work or school so you will be prepared. direction and less than 30 lbs. non-metal attachments. · Select durable products when making new purchases. Look for high-quality RECYCLE SEPARATELY products that are easy to repair. Glass bottles and jars Motor oil · Rent, borrow or share infrequently used items such as trailers, power tools, Glass must be recycled separately in Put motor oil in a clear HOLIDAY SERVICE ladders and lawn equipment. your glass-recycling bin. Mix all plastic gallon jug with a Garbage and recycling are collected on all holidays except Christmas colors. Labels are OK. screw-on lid and place it · Light bulbs, ceramics, broken glass, next to your recycling cart. (Dec. 25) and New Year’s Day (Jan. 1). If your collection day falls on Buy locally produced items to reduce the amount of natural resources needed glassware, window panes and lids Don't mix in other liquids. or after Christmas or New Year’s Day, collection will be one day later for shipping, packaging and transportation. are not accepted. that week, with Friday customers being serviced on Saturday.