What goes in your recycling bin?

smb — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:05:28 +0000

After our clean up this month, I discovered that many people do not know what to recycle.

Yes, take tops off bottles and rinse them. Here’s more from Rumpke’s website:

What goes in your bin?

Paper

Newspaper, newspaper inserts, magazines,

catalogs, junk mail, envelopes (with and without

windows), computer paper, brown paper bags,

paperboard (i.e. cereal boxes), cardboard

boxes (broken down into 3 ft. x 3 ft.) and

telephone books.

Plastic Bottles #1-7

All plastic bottles #1-7, such as milk jugs, soft

drink, laundry detergent and shampoo bottles.

Please remove caps and rinse bottles. Plastics

other than bottles are not acceptable. No wide

mouth containers or buckets.

Glass

Clear, brown, green and blue glass food and

drink containers, bottles and jars.

Aluminum & Steel Cans

Aluminum and steel beverage, soup and food

cans, empty aerosol cans and aluminum siding

and gutters.

No Separation Required!

Simply place all items in your bin and put your bin

at the curb the night before your collection day.

What does not go in your bin?

Oil jugs, plastic bags, plastics other than

bottles, wide mouth containers and buckets,

window and drinking glass, pots, pans.

80 Volunteers – 7/12/08

smb — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:03:21 +0000

VIC MAGARY AND HIS FAMILIES ARE THE BEST

This is the second year Vic asked his families to “practice defense” and, in this case, it’s our neighborhood brook’s health their defending. Approximately 80 people (youth/families) removed litter from the brook. Each person took a bag to fill with brook litter. Then we recycled it! That left only 13 bags of trash to haul to the city landfill. The Durst family took the recyclables to CURB at the Weiland Shopping Center. Our group provided pizza, fruit, and water to the volunteers. We composted, used cloth napkins, taught our children what is recyclable and what goes to the landfill, and talked about clean water as good for our bodies, neighborhood, wildlife, and the planet.

These 23 Adena Brook neighbors joined Vic’s families:

Jeff and Phyllis Beuter

Ken Burkhard

Stacy and John Durst, Tanner

Molly Fisher Ryan

Lisa Fosco and James

Ann Laubach, Manny and Dominic

Nan and Bill Platt

Christy Tull, Mitchell, Rayna

Karen Snyder

Susan Michael Barrett

John Carney, candidate for Ohio House Representative, District 22, and Mark Lundine, Vision 2012 Commission City Planner, worked with families to remove litter.

Maureen Lorenz, Columbus Recreation and Parks, planted more swamp milkweed in the rain garden.

Greg Schneider, ODNR, Natural Areas and Preserves, led Will and Marilyn Weiss, Bishop Watterson teachers, on a plant walk as a step towards developing study projects with their students next year.

Mark and Carina Carter continue to maintain the Cooke Road/Indianola/Overbrook corner. Mark mows weekly. Their work is more than our once a month effort. Many thanks for their efforts to improve this area of the neighborhood.

Thank you Bill Platt for photographs.

Adena Brook » Recycling

What goes in your recycling bin?

80 Volunteers – 7/12/08