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Thursday, November 26, 2009: Thanksgiving Day - No County-provided recycling or trash collections on November 26; Thursday and Friday collections that week shift by one day. Transfer Station closes at 5 p.m. on November 25; closed November 26. Effective September 21, 2009, our recycling program expanded to accept additional blue bin and mixed paper items! |
Talking TrashThis blog offers you a practical peek into the Montgomery County, MD, Division of Solid Waste Services -- it's a sort of "Behind the Scenes" course... online! |
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Friday, November 20, 2009Thanksgiving Day 2009 - modified trash and recycling collection scheduleThursday, November 26, 2009 - Thanksgiving Day - is a recycling and trash collection holiday. After the holiday, all County-provided recycling and trash collections will slide, and be one day later than normal.
If you have any questions or concerns about your County-provided collection, please contact our Customer Service staff online or call 240-777-6410. Note: if you (or your community) have a private contract for your trash collection, or if you live in a municipality, these schedule announcements may not apply to your trash service -- check with your hauler or community manager. Shady Grove Solid Waste Transfer StationTransfer Station location, hours and other details
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--posted by Susanne
Monday, November 16, 2009Put leaves in nothing fancier than brown bags or reusable cans What ferocious "pumpkins"! With leering smiles, they munch on leaves!
Look again, and you'll see that they are sporting a bit of extra orange... That's one of our rejection tags, indicating that these carefully bagged leaves were unacceptable for recycling collection. As you prepared your autumn leaves for weekly curbside yard trim recycling collection, please set them out only in paper yard trim bags, or in labeled, reusable cans. We shred and compost the yard trim we receive. During this process, plastic bags which come in are broken into a gazillion tiny pieces that create tremendous problems at our facilities. To help prevent this, we are unable to accept yard trim packaged in plastic. If you'd like to try your hand at composting your own leaves - it's easy, and the resulting product is wonderful for your lawn and garden - pick up one of our bins at no charge. Saturday, November 14, 2009Lots of shredding (and donating) going on!Our celebration of America Recycles Day is in full swing this weekend! We had two paper shredding and household donation events today. If you missed them, we've got two more for you tomorrow in Bethesda and Silver Spring.
Here are a few images from today's event in Germantown. The weather was overcast -- and thankfully, precipation was limited to the occasional light drizzle. Our staff and volunteers were in great spirits as they greeted event participants, with a friendly competition between sites to see which one had the most number of cars, paper shredded, and donations received!  A steady stream of cars came through (thank you all for coming out!). With many hands on deck for unloading, there was essentially no wait time. Participants were in and out in minutes.
 Volunteers welcomed participants, handed out information, and answered questions about recycling.
 Donations rolled in a trunkload at a time, with the collective results filling up the truck.
 If you miss this weekend's events, remember that we accept paper you shred at home yourself in our weekly mixed paper recycling collection. (Please bundle the shreds -- that prevents them from blowing out of your container as they await collection, and as crews empty your container.) Your donations are welcomed year-round by local charities and organizations; consult our Use It Again Guide at Use It Again Guide for suggestions, if you don't already have a favorite donation spot.
--posted by Susanne
Monday, November 09, 2009The Fall 2009 Leaf Vaccuming begins today!Today is the first day of the 2009 leaf vacuuming program! The Montgomery County Department of Transportation's Division of Highway Services, one of our sister agencies, provides this service in the Leaf Collection District. This District's general boundaries are: south of Bel Pre Road, east of I-270/I-495 and west of New Hampshire Avenue, to the District line. Please help crews by
Read full details on leaf vacuuming, including a service area map and progress updates. Don't have leaf vacuuming service in your neighborhood? We provide our weekly curbside yard trim collections -- including leaves in paper yard trim bags or reusable cans -- year-round! You may order yard trim decals for your cans online. Also, consider composting leaves. We offer compost bins at no additional charge to you. Keep all of our yard trim links handy through one convenient web page: http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/yardtrim --posted by Susanne
Friday, November 06, 2009Community Service Day RecapOn October 24, residents at Manchester Manor Apartments, Tanglewood Apartments, and Sligo Hills Apartments in Silver Spring were treated to on-site paper shredding/recycling and the opportunity to donate clothing and household goods to families in need.Montgomery County collaborated with Office Paper Systems, A Wider Circle, and the Housing Opportunities Commission to provide these services in the parking areas of these properties. Montgomery County volunteers and staff also went door-to-door, placing apartment-sized recycling bins and recycling information at the door of every apartment, and replaced the labels and posters at the collection areas to raise resident recycling awareness. This event was part of the countywide Community Service Day, a day of volunteering to encourage the spirit of giving among county residents. From the November 2009 issue of our TRRAC Newsletter for multi-family properties.
CATEGORIES: Apartments/Condo Recycling (TRRAC) , Recycling , Reuse , Volunteers
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