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Austin Establishes Single Stream Recycling Program

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Real Estate Agent with Stepstone Realty

The Single Stream recycling program allows customers to mix recyclable paper, plastic and glass in one bin, plus residents can recycle MORE and more types of items.

The program rolls out the beginning October 2008, extending through the end of the year. Small blue bins will no longer be used and crews will deliver new blue, 90-gallon recycling carts to City of Austin Solid Waste Services residential customers. Recycling collection will occur every other week. Single Stream Recycling instructions and a calendar showing collection schedules will be delivered with the new recycling carts.

Items that can be recycled include: 

Paper: (newspaper, office paper, junk mail, cereal and soft drink boxes, corrugated cardboard) Aluminum and metal cans: food cans (labels left on OK), soda cans Glass: Jars and bottles Rigid plastics: # 1 through # 7, including yogurt and margarine tubs

Items that cannot be recycled:

Plastic bags, Styrofoam (cups, egg cartons, take-out containers)

Questions on the new recycling program can be directed to Solid Waste Services at 974-1945.

To read more about green living in Austin, visit www.LiveGreenInAustin.com

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Robert Rauf
CMG Home Loans - Toms River, NJ

My area went to the single stream for paper... Prior to that we had to separate cardboard, magazines, newspaper etc....   Now every paper item is in one bin... and they wont take Pizza boxes even if they are corrugated cardboard! 

One of these days some one needs to figure out how to recycle Styrofoam!

Oct 15, 2008 06:21 AM
Robert Rauf
CMG Home Loans - Toms River, NJ

Hi Angela!  Where have you been?  you are missed in the Rain!!

Oct 30, 2008 06:49 AM
Lynn Krogseng
Keller Williams Premier Partners - Vancouver, WA

How do they do that? Here in Vancouver Washington we have 4 different bins for recycling.  Is your city paying someone to sort everything once it gets to the recycling center? Is there some magic machine that figures out what is what?  Has it improved recycling rates?

Oct 31, 2008 06:29 PM