Curbside Recycling
Curbside recycling is included in your monthly refuse service bill. Simply place all recyclables together in bin and set at the curb by 6 a.m. on your normal trash pick-up service day. Feel free to place your name and address on your bin.
Questions? Contact Waste Management at 866-797-9018 or our environmental program coordinator at 269-966-3355 ext. 1889.
Also check out Waste Management's
Recycle Often Recycle Right web page.
Plastic
All rinsed narrow-neck and wide-mouth plastic bottles and containers (Number 1-7). Examples include: c
at litter buckets, hair care bottles, juice bottles, large plastic pails, laundry soap containers, medicine bottles, milk cartons and molded kids' furniture. Caps and labels may be left on the bottles.
No motor oil containers, plastic bags, plastic tubs from ice cream or margarine.
Glass
All color glass bottles and jars are accepted. Please rinse clean, labels are okay. No lids, light bulbs, window glass, ceramics, cookware, drinking glasses.
Metal
Empty tin or steels cans (soup, vegetable, tuna, etc.), aluminum cans, foil, pans and small scrap metal are accepted. Rinse, clean and flatten (if possible).
No paint or aerosol cans.
Mixed paper & cardboard
Cardboard and box board are accepted; they must be cut down into 2-foot by 2-foot squares. Examples include pizza boxes, shipping boxes and food boxes (all food removed). No cardboard or paper items with metal edges or plastic.
Styrofoam
Sorry, no Styrofoam! Watch our
calendar and
calhouncountyrecycling.com for separate Styrofoam collection events.