COMPOST and RECYCLING Guide
Here's help for your best practices in our onsite local Composting and Recycling efforts!
Choose from the outline below any highlighted (italicized) item that you want to know more about and click on it for details (such as DOs and DON'Ts). There are various headings under the two title categories.
NOTE: Links below are shown in Bold Italics.
COMPOSTING —
INTRO ("WHY BOTHER?")
MUNICIPAL "FOOD PLUS" TOTERS (year-round)
ONSITE IN "COMPTOWN"—
• Cold composting (year-round)
• Hot composting (March thru August)
RECYCLING —
INTRO ("WHY BOTHER?")
COMMON HOUSE (Mailroom and NW Porch)— PHOTO VIEWS
• Mixed paper; Soft plastics
• Reusables: brown shopping bags, plastic bags and mailing packets
• Portable electronic devices, cords, chargers & cartridges (ink & laser)
• All unwanted, unbroken light bulbs (NW Porch)
WASTE CORRALS
"What Goes Where" in the Waste Corrals
(This two-page flier is also posted in the Mailroom.)
• PTAG toters (rigid Plastic, Tin, Aluminum, Glass)
• Flattened cardboard dumpster (westside only)
• Metal can (eastside only)
• Landfill dumpster
• Food Plus toters and yard waste dumpster
"RIDWELL" (items regularly collected on Jaco & Barbara's westside porch)
• “Threads” (clothing, textiles, footwear)
• Small plastic container caps
• Small metal bottle caps
• Orange or light green pill bottles
PACKING MATERIALS (collected on Jaco & Barbara's westside porch)
• Bubble wrap (except small bits, which can go with Mailroom plastic)
• Packing paper (even if crumpled); Air pockets; Packing “peanuts”
• Any other types of clean package fill or cushioning
• Bundles of folded brown shopping bags
• Reusable plastic plant pots (of all sizes)