Wait! Don't Put That In Your Garbage Can!

As we talked about on >Rockville Central Radio last Friday, you need to change the way you think about plastics in your garbage. The City of Rockville expanded the curbside recycling program to include many new plastic items. Take a few minutes to make sure you aren’t adding to the landfills and costing the City tipping fees in order to haul these items way.

Effective immediately, here’s the list of new items we can recycle:

Wide-mouth containers:
peanut butter jars
yogurt containers
margarine/butter tubs
prescription bottles.
Lids and caps do not need to be removed before recycling.

Rigid plastic items:
milk/soda crates
buckets with metal handles
laundry baskets
lawn furniture
coolers
flowerpots
drinking cups
toys
empty plastic garbage/recycling bins.

You can use old garbage cans for lawn waste. If you decide to get rid of your old plastic garbage cans/recycling bins put a sign on them indicating they are for recycling. It’s good to know that as we change over to carts, all our garbage cans can be recycled.

Plastic film:
grocery and newspaper bags
shrink-wrap from new packages
bubble wrap
You must put all this plastic film into a plastic bag. Single bags cannot be collected, so save them up until a plastic bag is full and then put it out on the curb.

These items should be placed into recycling containers along with all other recyclables, including cardboard and mixed paper.

Any recycling items that do not fit into your blue recycling bin should be placed next to the bin in paper bags. Large plastic items should be marked with the word “recycling” and placed next to the blue recycling bin or in the new brown recycling cart once you receive it.

Do NOT recycle vinyl siding, PVC pipe, paint containers and bottles containing hazardous materials.

If you need more information, visit the City’s Recycling page or call 240-314-8568 with questions. Rockville’s Channel 11 also did a video on the changes for the Cityline program.

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