By Alan Scafuri
Because Thursday is Thanksgiving, pick up for eastside residential recycling in the City of Chelsea will take place on Friday, Nov. 29. As always, the Western Washtenaw Recycling Authority (WWRA) thanks residents for their patience and cooperation; without you, recycling in Western Washtenaw wouldn’t so successful.
The new bin order is due to arrive late this week, and the bins will be delivered to residents Thanksgiving week, as well as the following week. The bin order is later than we were told because of production issues at the plant.
The WWRA must first assemble the bins, which takes time, but the bins will be delivered as soon as possible. Also, no new bins will be ordered until September, 2014, so if you have not yet ordered a bin, please use your own containers to put out your recycling in the city. It will be picked up.
As a reminder, the following is list of what the WWRA will accept, as well as some items that are not accepted.
Acceptable:
- Newspaper, junk mail, glossy inserts
- Magazines, catalogues, paperback and phone books
- White office paper
- Cardboard, cereal boxes, and paper bags (Also, please flatten corrugated cardboard boxes and boxboard, such as cereal boxes.)
- Plastic bottles
- No. 1-7 plastic bottles such as milk jugs and detergent bottles, cottage cheese, yogurt, etc. (Please remove caps and lids, rinse well and flatten, labels may be left on.)
- Rigid plastics such as plastic buckets, soda crates, plastic pallets, coolers, drums, toys and playhouses, plastic flower pots, laundry baskets, empty garbage cans, plastic pet containers.
- Glass bottles and jars of clear, green, or brown only. (Please remove caps and rinse well. Steel caps may be recycled with the can.)
- Tin and aluminum cans and lids (Please remove labels, rinse well, flatten if possible.)
- Empty aerosol cans
- Small metals and aluminum (Please, no propane tanks of any kind.)
- Car and truck batteries
Bring used motor oil to the Werkner Road site only; do not leave these at the bin sites or curbside.
Not Acceptable:
- No motor oil containers
- Plates, china, ceramics, mirrors, window glass, or light bulbs
- No tires
- No paint
- No household batteries
- No blue glass
- No styrofoam of any kind
- No computers, monitors, keyboards or printers
