City Recycling Center will no longer be accepting glass as of Monday
Sumner Newscow report – Sunset Glass Recycling has notified us that they will no longer be collecting glass. Therefore, the City Recycling Center will not be accepting glass after Monday, February 19.
Recycling of various materials is becoming more challenging due to market changes and increased processing costs for most recyclable material.
The City Recycling Center will continue accepting the following materials:
Please separate all materials into the product categories listed below. Each category will be handled differently. All material must be clean, dirty containers will be landfilled by the processors rather than recycled. Information will be provided to the public to assist in the education of different materials as it becomes available.
Product Category- Examples of Type of Materials Accepted:
- Magazines – magazines, catalogs, postcard type mailers, waxy mail/newspaper inserts
- White office paper – white paper with black ink only
- Mixed paper – colored paper, envelopes, phone books
- Corrugated cardboard – shipping boxes, shoe boxes
- Chipboard cardboard – food and canned beverage boxes (no orange juice containers or juice boxes as they have a thick wax coating)
- Newspaper
- Aluminum cans
- Tin cans
