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 In early February 2008, Walker Garbage Service began delivering new recycling rollcarts to customers in unincorporated Washington County. Portland and Beaverton residents may be on a different schedule, check your mail for information.
These carts will be collected on an every-other-week schedule that is the alternate week of your current yard debris collection schedules. If your yard debris is collected during a “red” week, your recycling will be collected on a “green” week and vice versa. So rather than setting out your recycling in your red bins every week, you will be setting out the new rollcart every other week.
If
you are unsure when yard debris is collected on
your street, ask a neighbor, take a look at when people on your street are putting them out, or call the office at 503-531-6330 or email us with your street address.
Keep your red bin, however, and use it to recycle glass containers, which still must be kept separate from other recyclables. Motor oil should still be set out in see-through jugs. Everything else can be combined in the new carts.
In addition to the new carts and the new schedule, we will be able to recycle additional plastic materials in the rollcart, along with all the familiar items we’ve been recycling.
Information on the new program is available at the Washington County Cooperative Recycling Program website: recyclewise.org where you can print out the new schedule and a poster with details about the new recycling systems. You can download and print the brochure that the county prepared for the program here.
Preparation Instructions: With all items, rinse clean and let air dry. Labels OK. Set recyclables in your roll cart and roll it to the curb on your scheduled recycling collection day.
Commingling
Place all these products together in your recycling rollcart.
In the rollcart:
Newspapers & Magazines: Just toss into the rollcart.
Corrugated Cardboard: Flatten boxes and
toss into the rollcart. For large boxes, flatten and place under the rollcart
- stack no larger than 3’ x 3’ wide. Do not include wax-coated
cardboard.
Scrap Paper (Scrap paper includes: unwanted
mail, envelopes, fax paper, greeting cards, paper egg cartons, paper
tubes,
and cereal boxes). Place scrap paper into a brown paper
bag and toss into the
rollcart. Do not include tissue paper, paper towels, or paper
coated with food, wax, foil,
or plastic.
Metal Cans: (including aluminum and tin/steel
food cans). Rinse the can clean, and toss it into the rollcart. No need to remove labels.
Aerosol Cans: Thoroughly empty the can
through normal use, remove and discard the plastic cap,
and toss the can into the rollcart.
For safety do not flatten the can, puncture the
can, or remove the nozzle.
Scrap Metal: (Scrap metal includes foil, bolts, hangers,
and other all metal objects. Place all metal which is smaller
than 36 inches long and less than 40 lbs into the rollcart. Do
not include metal that is contaminated with plastic, food,
or other non-metal materials.
Plastic Bottles and Milk Jugs: (plastic
bottles have a neck that is smaller than the base). Remove
and discard the lid,
rinse the container clean, and toss into the rollcart. Do
not include plastic bottles that have come into contact
with motor oil, pesticide, or herbicide. (Plastic bottle
recycling may not
be available in some rural areas at this time. )
Rigid plastic containers and bottles including bottles, containers, and tubs 6 oz. or larger;
milk containers—do not crush or flatten;
margarine/butter/yogurt/cottage cheese tubs—no lids please!
rigid buckets 5-gallons or less—with/without a handle
rigid plastic plant pots 4” or larger (not the kind you can easily crush)
Milk cartons and drink boxes: Remove any plastic (handles, spouts etc.),
rinse clean, drip dry, and place into the rollcart. Do not
include the plastic straw that comes with drink boxes.
Beside the rollcart:
Glass Bottles and Jars: Use your old Red Bin to collect recyclable glass. Remove the lid
and rinse the container clean.
Do not include
window glass, mirrors, cookware, or drinking glasses.
No broken glass! Place the Red Bin next to your rollcart.
Motor Oil: Pour used motor oil into a "see-through," unbreakable
container (one-gallon preferred) with a screw top lid.
Place next to your recycling rollcart.
Information on the new program is available at the Washington County Cooperative Recycling Program website: recyclewise.org where you can print out the new schedule and a poster with details about the new recycling systems.
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