Waste Management - Partnering with The City of Troutdale to Make Recycling Easy!

2008 RESIDENTIAL CART PROGRAM GUIDE

City of Troutdale Solid Waste & Recycling Program

Improving Your Service :Improving Your Service :

Recycling Recycling Made Easier!Made Easier!

Troutdale Recycles!

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What’s Inside: Improving Your Service 3

General Collection Information 4

Residential Garbage Rates & Services 5

Center Page Pull-Out 6-7

Yard Debris & Backyard Composting 8

Your Recycling Roll-Cart 9

Glass Collection 10

Plastics Recycling 11

2008 RESIDENTIAL CART PROGRAM GUIDE

104 SE KIBLING ST., TROUTDALE, OREGON 97060 503-665-5175 WWW.CI.TROUTDALE.OR.US/SOLIDWASTE-RECYCLING

City of Troutdale Solid Waste & Recycling

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C H A N G E S A R E C O M I N G T O T R O U T D A L E R E C YC L I N G ! ROLL-CARTS: To make managing your waste easier, Waste Management in partnership with the City of Troutdale will provide roll-carts for all your disposal and recycling needs.

Garbage and recycling roll carts will be fitted with a lid securing device to prevent blowing waste on windy days.

For all customers currently using Waste Management provided roll-carts for garbage and/or recycling, Waste Management has already retrofitted your container with a lid securing device. Please contact Waste Management if your garbage or recycling cart has not been retrofitted.

For all customers who don't currently use Waste Management provided roll carts, please watch for delivery beginning February, 2008. New garbage carts will be delivered equal to your current service level along with a new recycle roll cart to replace the current two-bin service.

No more lugging bulky bins! Instead you can now mix (commingle) all your recycled materials (except glass & motor oil) together in your new recycling cart - and roll it to the curb when full.

Improving Your Service

Advantages of Roll-Cart Recycling

• Wheels and handle make the cart easy to move.

• They will keep trash and recyclables from blowing around your neighborhood.

• Standardized recycling containers makes it possible to recycled additional products.

• Recyclables can be mixed together (except for glass and motor oil).

• Less sorting is required.

• The roll carts are user friendly.

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PLEASE FOLLOW THESE GUIDELINES ON YOUR GARBAGE AND RECYCLING DAY:

• Place your materials at the curb in front of your home by 6:00 am on your scheduled pickup day.

• Do not overstuff your roll-carts (garbage, yard debris or recycling). All materials must be able to fall freely when emptied into the truck.

• Roll-carts have maximum allowable weights. The most common cart sizes are listed below:

20 gallon cart maximum is 35 pounds 35 gallon cart maximum is 60 pounds 60 gallon cart maximum is 120 pounds. 90 gallon cart maximum is 145 pounds

• Be sure the lid-securing device is in place and properly strapped.

• Cart should be al least three feet from basketball hoops, trees, cars and mailboxes.

• Do not block mailboxes at any time. Cart handles must face the house, lid opening must face the street.

• Remember to remove emptied containers from the curb as soon as possible so they do not block the sidewalk or become an eyesore.

• Do not dispose of hazardous products in your garbage roll-cart

• Pick-up days change only on Christmas and New Year's Day weeks. In these weeks, the pick-up day for the holiday and all other days following the holiday will be one day later than normal.

General Col lect ion Information

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T routdale’s standard residential services include garbage, recycling and yard debris pick-up. In addition to your garbage roll-

cart, your hauler will also provide you with a 60-gallon roll-cart for yard debris and a 60 gallon roll-cart for recycling in February.

OTHER RATES & SERVICES: In addition to the basic service rates, there are several optional regulated rates and services for Troutdale residents:

• Extra Garbage: $5.00 for each additional 32-gallon can or bag. This charge can also apply to overfilled roll-carts. The lid of your garbage or yard debris roll-cart must close flat or you may be subject to additional charges for extra garbage or yard debris.

• Extra Yard Debris (bags): $4.00 for each additional 32-gallon can or Kraft paper bag. Be sure to use a Kraft paper bag; do not use plastic bags for yard debris since they are not compostable.

• Extra Yard Debris (roll-cart): Each additional 60-gallon roll cart is $7.80/month.

• Off-Curb Service Rate This means the garbage, recycling and yard debris truck driver retrieves your roll-cart from a location other than at the curb: This is a subscription service with a charge of $4.75 for up to 35 feet from the curb. Contact Waste Management for other distances.

• Call-backs available: $15.00. This fee applies when a customer’s roll-cart was not available by 6:00 a.m. or was inaccessible to the garbage truck and the customer requests a return trip prior to the next regular service day.

Type of garbage service rate

Once per month 35 gallon $13.85

Every other week 35 gallon $19.50

Weekly 20 gallon roll-cart $21.25

Weekly 35 gallon roll-cart $25.60

Weekly 60 gallon roll-cart $30.05

Weekly 90 gallon roll-cart $36.50

Rates include weekly recycling and yard debris with a 60 gallon cart

Residential Garbage Rates & Services

For a detailed rate schedule see www.ci.troutdale.or.us/solidwaste-recycling/documents/collectionrates.pdf

PAPER

Flat, clean cardboard

Newspaper, junk mail, magazines

Phone books, catalogs

Paper food boxes (cereal, pasta, etc.) with liners removed

Rinsed milk cartons

Shredded paper (stuffed in a paper, not a plastic bag)

Waxed or coated cardboard

Tissues and paper towels

Paper with food residue

Frozen food boxes

PLASTIC

Rigid plastic containers and bottles #1 thru #7

Clean plastic bottles, jugs or jars (shampoo, soft drinks, detergent, etc.)

GLASS IN BIN

METAL

Empty aluminum, steel and tin cans

Metal caps and lids

Clean aluminum foil and foil baking trays

Scrap metal pieces shorter than 36 inches and less than 40 pounds

Metal with food residue

Cans with food residue

Metal with other attached materials (plastics, etc.)

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Plastic tubs and lids (butter, yogurt, cottage cheese)

Plastic buckets

Clean garden and nursery pots, tubs, and flats

Plastic bags (produce, bread, freezer, shopping, newspaper, dry-cleaning)

Plastic film or bubble wrap

Frozen food and takeout containers

Packing materials (block foam and packing peanuts)

Cups, plates, utensils

Plastic caps and six-pack rings

Plastic packaging material (rigid or soft)

Hazardous or toxic material containers (motor oil, antifreeze, pesticide, etc.)

Plastic toys

Garden hoses

Do not mix glass with other recycling. Please use your bin to keep glass separated from other recyclable materials.

All clean glass bottles and jars

All colors mixed together; clear and colored glass do not need to be separated

Paper labels do not need to be removed

Rinse your glass clean

Lids or corks

Plastic or paper bags, no cartons, no boxes

Ceramics, tableware (cups, plates, vases, etc.)

Window glass, cookware glass, drinking glasses, reading glasses, mirrors, light bulbs

MOTOR OIL Set used motor oil next to your red bin on collection day, in a one-gallon, see-through, unbreakable container with a screw top cap.

NO PLASTIC BAGS, GLASS or GARBAGE in your Recycling Roll-Cart

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PLEASE REMEMBER AS YOU PREPARE YOUR YARD DEBRIS...

Yard Debris & Backyard Composting

NO Plastic bags cannot be used for yard debris. If you have extra yard debris beyond what fits into your cart, you may purchase Kraft paper yard debris bags from many local retailers. (Please note, there is an additional $4.00 charge for each extra yard debris bag).

A typical 60-gallon roll cart may not weigh more than 120 pounds.

No oversized items, dirt, sod, stumps, metal, rocks, ashes, food waste, plastic, lumber, animal waste or household garbage.

Do not overstuff the container - it may not empty properly.

YES Yard debris carts are picked up weekly in the City of Troutdale.

Please place your yard debris cart at the curb on your scheduled day.

Include only leaves, grass clippings, garden waste, weeds, branches and prunings (no greater than four inches in diameter and 36 inches in length).

Contact Waste Management at 503-249-8078 for backyard composting brochures or information.

Customers who back yard compost or retain a commercial landscape maintenance service may contact Waste Management for information on the yard debris exemption program.

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One Cart No bulky bins to lug

Less Sorting Your new 60-gallon roll-cart builds on the “commingled” recycling system that has been

in place the past few years! You can mix everything together: paper, cardboard, tin, aluminum, plastic bottles and tubs—except for glass and motor oil, which must be kept separate.

You can help keep the monthly rate low by putting your roll-cart

at the curb only when it is full.

Your Recyc l ing Rol l -Cart

• Glass in the bin: Since broken glass contaminates other materials it must be kept separate from other recycling. Glass will now be collected in your curbside bin on a weekly basis—but you are encouraged to only set-out your glass bin when it is full.

• Plastic recycling expanded: For the first time Troutdale’s curbside program will begin accepting more plastics. (See page 9 for details.)

IF YOU DON’T NEED YOUR SECOND BIN...

You may keep your recycling bins and use them as you wish: Designate one of your current bins for glass, making it easy to keep glass separate from the rest of your recycling.

Unwanted bins may be returned to your hauler by contacting Waste Management.

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GLASS MUST BE KEPT SEPARATE!

Why?

When glass mixes with other recycling, it often breaks. Broken glass damages processing equipment, creates risk to sorting crews and reduces the market value of the paper mixed with it. For all these reasons, glass must be kept separate from the rest of your recycling. Residents and businesses must keep it separate at the curb and your hauler must keep it separate when collected.

SET OUT YOUR GLASS BIN ONLY WHEN FULL!

This will help keep your garbage and collection efficient! It is much quicker for the recycling truck to stop and pick up glass only when the bin is full, rather than stopping for a single pickle jar or three wine bottles. Putting your glass bin out only when it is full, will help the whole system work better.

Glass Col lect ion

IMPORTANT! DO NOT PUT GLASS IN THE ROLL-CART

When mixed with the rest of your recycling, the glass breaks, causing risk to workers and reducing the quality of

other materials in the recycling process.

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YES Accepted in recycling roll cart...

Bottles, tubs, jugs, pots and buckets

Acceptable rigid plastics include: • Bottles, tubs, and jugs 6oz or larger • Buckets, 5 gallons or less • Nursery plant pots 4” or larger

Rinse all clean of food, soil, or drink residue before placing in cart.

NO Not accepted in recycling roll cart... • Plastic zipper or grocery bags, film or bubble wrap • Blister packaging—tough, clear, molded plastic packaging • Beverage or tub lids (they mix with paper and are disposed

of at the paper mills) • Seedling trays or nursery pots that crinkle • Disposable plates, utensils, cups, bakery and deli take out

containers • Individual-serving containers less than 6oz—apple sauce

or pudding cups. • Styrofoam trays, foam peanuts, or block Styrofoam • Containers that held hazardous waste or chemicals

Plastics not accepted in the curbside collection programs may still be recycled at depots or plastics collection events.

EXPANDED PLASTICS

Plast i cs Recyc l ing

YOU ASKED FOR IT. . . YOU GOT IT! Some of the most frequently asked questions to our Recycling Program concern plastic recycling. Since plastic markets are more consistent and stable than in the past, Waste Management will begin collecting additional plastic items as of February, 2008.

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