The City of Lakeway is starting a new recycling program that will begin the week of April 1st in an effort to further reduce landfill waste. The recycling service will be one day per week on the same day as trash service. Residents will be provided with a 65 gallon blue cart which will be delivered between March 20th and April 1st. Current recycling containters will be picked up during the month of April.
Visit the City of Lakeway website for more information.
The program will be more comprehensive and will include the following items:
- #1-#5 & #7
- Water, soda and juice bottles, milk jugs, shampoo, conditioner & liquid soap bottles, detergentbottles, bleach and all-purpose cleaner bottles, margarine tubs, yogurt containers, empty medicine bottles, Clean frozen food trays, plastic lids from bottles, plastic takeout containers, plastic produce containers, plasticdisposable plates, cups and utensils (check for recycling number).
- Newspapers and Inserts, magazines, catalogs, junk mail and envelopes (No product samples; envelope labels and windows are OK), boxboard (thin cardboard like cereal boxes, shoe boxes, soda cartons, etc.), holiday and greeting cards, phone books, home office paper (sticky notes, manila envelopes and file folders and paper ream wrappers are OK), paper bags, except gift bags.
- Aluminum cans, such as soda cans, tin & steel cans, such as soup cans and tuna cans, empty aerosol cans, metal lids from glass jars.
- Clear, green and amber glass. Put the glass containers in your recycling cart with all your recyclables. There is noneed to remove labels. Metal lids from glass jarsmay also go in your recycling cart.
- Corrugated cardboard is thick and has a wavy middle layer. Moving and mailing boxes areusually made from corrugated cardboard.
Recycle Sign by Petr Kratochvil
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