RECYCLING PROGRAM:The city supports recycling and urges residents to follow the recycling guidelines and rules described below:Place blue bag recyclables on the curb next to your rubbish for pick up on your scheduled collection day. Although recyclable materials should be placed at the same time as rubbish, blue bags may be picked up at a different time on that day. Please note that blue bags containing rubbish (garbage, trash) will be left at the curb with a request that they be appropriately repackaged. Glass, plastics and cans may be co-mingled in blue bags and placed on the curb on Friday. Blue recycling bags are available wherever rubbish bags are sold. Home Depot Kicks Off Nationwide CFL Recycling ProgramRecycling compact fluorescent light bulbs just got easier. Home Depot announced it will offer free CFL recycling at each of its 1,973 locations. Customers can drop off expired, unbroken bulbs at the returns counter of any Home Depot store. This is in response to customers' concerns about improper disposal of the bulbs, which contain small amounts of mercury.Medicine and the EnvironmentOne of the most commonly recommended methods of disposing of unwanted medication has been flushing the medicine down the toilet or rinsing it down the drain. Your doctor or pharmacist may even tell you to do so.But when medicines are flushed or rinsed down the drain, they flow to your septic tank or to your local wastewater treatment plant where they can harm the beneficial bacteria that break down wastes. Septic tanks and municipal treatment plants are not designed to remove these medicines, so they pass through the wastewater treatment plant unchanged. When the treated water is released into rivers and lakes, it can still contain these medicines. Our local agencies are working to keep these medicines out of our wastewater, rivers, and lakes. Currently the safest option for disposing of unwanted medicine is to SECURELY PACKAGE THE MEDICATION AND PUT IT IN THE TRASH OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN AND ANIMALS. However, simply throwing away medicine can be dangerous. Steps should should be taken to make it difficult for any person or animal to unintentionally ingest the discarded medicine. If your pharmacy will not accept unwanted medications: Keep the medication in its original packaging. The labels may contain necessary information and the caps are usually childproof. Remove all personal information from the packaging. Use a marker to black out name and insurance information. Make the medicine unusuable. Crush or dissolve pills with a small amount of water. Absorb liquid medication with flour, table salt, or another non-toxic substance. Wrap blister packs in layers of strong tape. Place the package inside a non-transparent container. Any empty yogart or margarine container works best. Free Service To Reduce Your Unwanted Catalogs Over eight million tons of trees are consumed each year in the production of paper catalogs. Now there's a free service that allows you to reduce the stream of unwanted catalogs flowing into your home: http://www.catalogchoice.org All you need is the customer number (printed near the name/address field on the back of the catalog.) This process is much simpler than telephoning requests to stop and the site maintains a record of catalogs you've eliminated. GLASS Recycle all glass beverage bottles and jars. Please rinse containers and remove lids and neck rings. Paper labels don’t need to be removed. Do not include used pesticide or herbicide containers, window glass, light bulbs, mirrors or ceramics -- place them with rubbish. PLASTIC Recycle rinsed plastic milk containers and plastic soda bottles and containers that have the number 1 or 2 stamped on the bottom. Exclude items #3 through #7 containing motor oil, antifreeze, pesticide and herbicide containers -- place them with rubbish. ALUMINUM & STEEL CANS Recycle rinsed aluminum and steel cans. Remove paper from cans and comingle them in blue recycling bags along with plastic and glass curbside. Aluminum cans may also be taken to our recycling bin, located behind our Fire Station on Bagley Road. You may recycle cans 24/7, 365 days a year. Proceeds are donated to the Metro Burn Unit. NEWSPAPERS In an effort to make recycling easier, place all newspapers in a separate brown paper grocery bag or tie them with rope or string. Please do not include magazines, color or glossy prints. ABITIBI PAPER CONTAINERSWe have contracted with Abitibi Consolidated to place special green and yellow containers at eight locations for recycling all kinds of paper products including newspapers, magazines, catalogs, junk mail, school and office paper, envelopes, shredded paper, self-stick notes, softbound books, computer and fax paper, poster paper, folders and colored construction paper. Color and glossy prints are included. Please visit www.paperretriever.com for further information.The Abitibi containers are located at:
CARDBOARD The City of Middleburg Heights Service Department has established a program for cardboard recycling. The container for cardboard is located at the Service Center at 7375 Engle Road 24/7 for your convenience. The container is located near the Abitibi Paper Recycling container in front of the Service Center. Cardboard is excluded from curbside pick up and from the Abitibi containers. COMPUTERS Household computer equipment such as CPU’s, monitors, keyboards, mice, printers, terminals, modems, software and other peripheral devices and accessories may be taken to our City Service Center at 7375 Engle Road, from April through September. Please call the Service Department Administrative Office at 440-234-2216 to schedule a time between 9:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. to bring your computer equipment. For more information, please visit www.cuyahogaswd.org/residents/comprec.htm. During the other months, take your computer equipment to RET3 Job Corp., 1814 E. 40th St., Cleveland, OH 44114. Call (216) 361-9991. Televisions and other electronics are not accepted. HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTEHazardous household waste is not allowed for curbside pickup. This includes oil-based paint, sealers, varnishes, polyurethanes, shellacs, spray paint, automotive products, kerosene, gasoline, lighter fluid, pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, paint thinner, mineral spirits, turpentine, caustic household cleaners, adhesives, roof tar, driveway sealer and mercury. Cuyahoga County schedules hazardous-waste round-up times at the Berea Fairgrounds where household hazardous materials can be dropped off by residents and disposed of free of charge. For further information log on to the county solid waste disposal website at www.cuyahogaswd.org. CAR TIRES & BATTERIES Car and truck tires, and tires from other vehicles, are not permitted in curbside pick up. Call a tire dealer or service station to dispose of these items properly. Motor vehicle batteries cannot be accepted for curbside pickup. They should be recycled with battery dealers or service stations. PROPANE TANKSPropane tanks present a fire and explosion hazard and are not acceptable for curbside pickup. These tanks are to be recycled through propane dealers and retail stores that sell propane, such as Lowe’s and Home Depot. MERCURYMercury is a health hazard that is not acceptable for curbside pick up. For free disposal of mercury, please call the Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District at (216) 443-3749 for drop-off locations. RECHARGEABLE BATTERIESRechargeable batteries contain hazardous materials and should not be included with household waste. These batteries can be recycled by the store from which they were purchased. For further information about recycling, please contact Recycling Coordinator Rose Volpe at (440) 234-2216. MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS SHRED-IT DAYMiddleburg Heights residents are invited to shred their personal documents on Saturday, July 12, 2008 at the Middleburg Heights Service Center, located at 7375 Engle Road. A shredding truck from Shred-It Mobile and Recycling will be available for free, quick and easy destruction and disposal of documents from 9:00 a.m. - 12 p.m.Shred-It staff will be available to handle the documents and shred while participants watch. Each household may bring material equivalent to the capacity of two standard size copy paper boxes. Documents shredded may be in plastic bags. The City is pleased to offer this service to residents. Shredding personal paperwork is a way to counteract identity theft and protect private information. The company's cross-cut shredding process creates a crisscross cut of paper no longer that 5/8" in size, which provides for greater security than conventional strip-cut shredders. Then the shredded material goes directly to the company's recycling facilities where it is baled and delivered to recycling mills. For further information about the shredding event, log on to www.middleburgheights.com or call the Middleburg Heights Service Department at 440-234-2216. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT SHRED-IT DAYIf it rains, will the event be cancelled? No, Rain or Shine Is there a charge for the service? No, shredding is free Do I have to remove staples, paper clips, etc.? No, but take paper work out of binders and notebooks Do I need to sort the paper? No What can be shredded? Financial and legal documents, receipts, tax and medical records, plus floppy disks and CD's Is there a limit? Two standard size copy paper boxes What happens after the paper has been shredded? The destroyed documents are transferred to a recycling facility, where they return to the marketplace in the form of items such as recycled household paper products.
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