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RECYCLING GUIDE
RECYCLING GUIDE
An informational recycling center newsletter
for Longmont residents.
The 2011 Longmont
PostConsumer
YOUR GUIDE TO RECYCLING and
collection schedules
Please use this guide to find recycling
solutions for your home, school and business:
batteries, bottles, paper, shredded paper,
cardboard and bulky metals.
For more info:
www.ci.longmont.co.us/solidwaste
Si usted necesita esta publicación en
Español favor de llamar al 303-651-8416
City of Longmont Recycling
& Tree Limb Diversion Center
140 Martin Street
At this location you will find the Tree Limb
Diversion Center where residents can bring
tree branches and leaves during regular
business hours.
This service is available to residents of the
City of Longmont at no additional fee.
Residents outside the City of Longmont will
be charged a small fee based on volume.
If there is not a bin for a particular item,
please take it with you. You may contact us
by phone for additional information on how to
recycle items not accepted at this location.
Congrats Longmont!
You made a difference! In 2010, city
residents recycled 18,000 tons of material.
Those materials include: curbside recycling
collection, recycling center collections, tree
limb diversion materials, and paper shredding
events. Thank you for your tremendous
38% Diversion Rate
effort to divert wastes from the landfill!
6500 tons collected curbside
1875 tons of recyclables collected at the City
Recycling Center
9600 tons of tree limbs and branches
22 tons of shredded material collected at shred events
28,775 tons of trash collected curbside
That’s 46,775 tons of materials collected, of which
18,000 tons were recycled
That equals a 38% diversion rate for Longmont!
City of Longmont
Public Works & Natural Resources
PRESORT STANDARD
375 Airport Road US POSTAGE PAID
Longmont, CO 80501 LONGMONT, CO
PERMIT 19
You can drop off the following items
at the Longmont Recycling
& Tree Limb Diversion Center
140 Martin Street
Recycle Drop Off: 24 hours a day/7 days per week
For Tree Limb Diversion Hours: 303-651-8416 or www.ci.longmont.co.us/solidwaste
• Tree limbs, shrubs, bushes, and unbagged leaves (during business hours only)
• Aluminum cans and foil
• Steel cans and metal jar lids
• Glass bottles and jars
• Milk cartons and drink boxes
• Plastic bottles (#1 — #7)
• Plastic screw-top jars (#1 — #7)
• Plastic tubs and cups (#1 — #7)
• Cardboard and brown paper bags
• Office paper and unopened mail
• Magazines and catalogs
• Newspaper and phone books
• Large paperboard items
• Small, low-grade paper items
 2011 Trash and Recycling Collection Schedule
Horario de colección de basura y reciclado

January/Enero February/Febrero March/Marzo

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Feb 12: Shred event at 140 Martin Street, 9am – 1pm Mar 11: Shred event at 140 Martin Street, 9am – 1pm
Feb 21: President’s Day (Trash and Recycling 1 Day behind, Mar 26: Large Item Stop-N-Drop, 375 Airport Road, 8am – 2pm
Jan 15: Shred event at 140 Martin Street, 9am – 1pm City Facilities and Tree Limb Diversion Center Closed).
Jan 17: Martin Luther King Day (Trash and Recycling 1 Day
behind, City Facilities and Tree Limb Diversion Center Closed).

April/Abril May/Mayo June/Junio

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April 9: Hard to Recycle Event, 140 Martin Street, 9am – 1pm May 7: Landfill Drop Day, Erie Landfill, 6am – 2pm June 18: Shred event at 140 Martin Street, 9am – 1pm
April 11 – 23: Spring Branch Collection May 21: Shred event at 140 Martin Street, 9am – 1pm
April 16: Shred event at 140 Martin Street, 9am – 1pm May 30: Memorial Day (Trash and Recycling 1 Day behind,
City Facilities and Tree Limb Diversion Center Closed).

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August 20: Shred event at 140 Martin Street, 9am – 1pm Sept 5: Labor Day (Trash and Recycling 1 Day behind, City
Facilities and Tree Limb Diversion Center Closed).
July 4: Independence Day (Trash and Recycling 1 Day behind, Sept 10: Hard to Recycle Event, 140 Martin Street, 9am – 1pm
City Facilities and Tree Limb Diversion Center Closed). Sept 10: Landfill Drop Day, Erie Landfill, 6am – 2pm
July 16: Shred event at 140 Martin Street, 9am – 1pm Sept 16: Shred event at 140 Martin Street, 9am – 1pm
July 30: Large Item Stop-N-Drop, 375 Airport Road, 8am – 2pm Sept 17: Household Chemical Drop Day, 375 Airport Road,
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with m o u te Driv We want to make recycling as easy as possible • Phone books, newspapers, magazines
You r R for you. Single stream recycling allows for all • Glass bottles and jars

A Note recyclable materials to go into one container (grey • Plastic bottles and jugs (#1 – 7)
container). The only thing you have to do is empty • Metal jar lids
• Corrugated cardboard
from the Drivers
and rinse! Please do not flatten aluminum cans
or containers.

Below is our Dirty Dozen hit list of the WORST THINGS

The Dirty Dozen TO PUT IN YOUR GREY SINGLE STREAM RECYCLING Trash
CART. Please help make our single-stream recycling
program a success by keeping these materials OUT.

1NO Plastic Bags

in single-stream recycling cart
Plastic bags are the WORST contaminants
in the recycling cart. They get wet and
dirty and cannot be recycled. Plastic bags
can be recycled at Eco-Cycle CHaRM or
5
NO Hazardous Waste
in single-stream recycling cart
Hazardous waste such as paint, automotive
fluids, car batteries and pesticides
9
NO Caps or Lids
on Glass Bottles or Jars
in single-stream recycling cart
Metal lids can be removed and recycled loose
must be taken to the Boulder County in the bin. Plastic lids and caps from glass
Household Hazardous Waste Facility, NOT bottles and jars should be thrown away.

at participating grocery stores if they are
clean, dry and empty. Find grocery store
recycling locations at www.ecocycle.org/
htrg.
10
the Recycling Center. Call 303.441.4800
for more information. The Longmont NO Liquids
Recycling Center accepts car batteries and in single-stream recycling cart
motor oil for recycling. See hours above. When we compact bottles for shipping,

2NO Materials in Plastic Bags

in single-stream recycling cart
Workers have to slow the conveyor belts
6
NO Diapers or
Bio–Hazardous Waste
in single-stream recycling cart
liquids drip and splatter, creating a sticky,
smelly mess on the sorting floor. Please
completely empty and quickly rinse out all
containers before recycling.

to rip open bags that contain recyclables
and then add the bag to the heap of bags
bound for the landfill. These inefficiencies
waste time and money.
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Syringes, needles, diapers and other
sanitary products are not recyclable. Visit NO Ceramics or
www.ecocycle.org/htrg for information Non-Recyclable Glass
about handling sharps safely. in single-stream recycling cart

3 7 Non-Trash Items
Ceramics, china, dishes, mirrors, light
NO Shredded Paper NO Non-Recyclable Plastics bulbs, Pyrex®, porcelain and window glass
in single-stream recycling cart in single-stream recycling cart should not go in the cart! Their different Please DO NOT put these
Shredded paper is too small to sort. While we have added new plastic items, melting points and chemical compositions
The pieces get wet, gum up the sorting many plastics are still not recyclable will ruin new glass bottles. If our buyer items in the trash cart
equipment and cause it to malfunction. because there is no market to accept them. sees just one of these on the top of a load
Recycle shredded paper in the bin marked Plastic lids, Styrofoam® and any other of glass, the entire load could be rejected. • Hazardous waste

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“Paperboard” at the Longmont Recycling plastics not listed in these guidelines are • Liquid paint
Drop-off Center. not recyclable. NO Frozen Food Boxes

4NO Scrap Metal

in single-stream recycling cart
Scrap metal items of any size should not
go in your curbside cart. These items
cause excessive damage to the recycling
equipment. Please take these materials to
the Longmont Recycling Drop-off Center
and look for the bin marked “Scrap Metal.”
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NO Flattened Containers
in single-stream recycling cart
The Single-Stream sorting equipment
separates “flats” (paper) from “rounds”
(containers). When containers are
flattened, the equipment mistakenly
sends them to the paper side of the
facility, significantly contaminating the
paper we’re sending to market.
in single-stream recycling cart
Paperboard boxes that were designed
for frozen foods, such as frozen pizza and
entrees, have a plastic polymer sprayed
• Needles or syringes
• Cooking oil
• Loose or hot ashes
on them to protect against freezer burn.
That same coating prevents the box from
breaking up in the recycling process. These
materials are not recyclable OR compostable.
Printed with Permission by Eco-Cycle. Copyright Eco-Cycle 2010.

Used Automotive Oil Heats Up the

Public Works Maintenance Facility
The sanitation division has a motor oil collection site located at the City Recycling
Center. The oil collected is reused to heat two buildings located at the Public Works
Maintenance Facility. Each year, our collection site receives about 4,000 gallons of
used motor oil. This in turn means lower costs to heat buildings and reuse of used
motor oil. If you have motor oil that you need to dispose of, you can bring it by the
City Recycling Center — in non-opaque containers, (gallon milk jugs). No chemicals
please. The collection site is open six days a week: Monday–Wednesday from 8:30
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Thursday–Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. Just bring your
utility bill indicating you are a trash subscription customer and present that to the
Call 303-651-8416 person at the window and they will direct you to the collection bins.
for more information

Oil and battery dropoff is located at

140 Martin Street, the Longmont
Recycling and Tree Limb Diversion
Center. Alkaline batteries are not
recyclable and may be placed in
your trash.

Did You
Know?
Plastic bags
• About 89 billion plastic bags, sacks and wraps
are used each year in the U.S.
• According to the EPA, about 12 percent of
plastic bags and wraps were recycled in 2007.
• A five-year-long study by the Ocean
Conservancy found that small plastic bags
made up about 9 percent of the debris found
along various U.S. coasts.
• Surveys routinely show that more than 90
percent of consumers reuse their plastic bags
at least once for things like wastebasket liners,
lunch totes and pet waste pick-up.
• Plastic bags are not accepted in either curbside
collection or the City’s Recycling Center (jams
up the processing equipment).
• You can return your plastic bags to grocery
store drop off sites for recycling.
All major retail grocers
in Longmont offer
plastic bag collection.
Your Recycling Challenge:
Reduce or eliminate the number of
plastic bags you throw in the trash.
• Use reusable grocery bags.
• Take your plastic grocery bags back to your
retail grocer. All major grocery stores in
Longmont have a collection point at the front of
the stores to take back plastic grocery bags!
• City dog parks can also reuse your plastic
grocery bags, just drop by one of three dog
parks and fill up the doggie bag dispenser with
your unwanted bags. The City dog parks are
located at Airport Rd and St. Vrain Rd, 21st Ave
and Francis, and at the Rough and Ready Park
on 21st near Sunlight Drive.
Recycling
update!
It is now OK to recycle plastic caps from plastic
bottles and jugs. Just screw them back on
the empty bottle or jug and toss it into your
recycling container. The bottle recycling market
has expanded to accept plastic caps, as long as
they are on the container. Please note: METAL
CAPS on glass bottles are recyclable, but they
should ALWAYS be removed
from the bottle before
recycling. They are
recyclable, but separate
from the bottle.
Longmont Recycling Information
www.ci.longmont.co.us/solidwaste
Longmont Recycling Center
140 Martin Street
Hours: 24 hours a day/7 days a week
303-651-8416
Si usted necesita esta publicación en
Español favor de llamar al 303-651-8416
Special Recycling Events in Longmont
Hard-to-Recycle Events
2011 Schedule: April 9 and September 10, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Please call us at 303-651-8416 or visit our website
(www.ci.longmont.co.us/solidwaste).
Where: City Recycling Center, 140 Martin Street
Items Accepted: Computers, electronics, and cell phones are
among the items accepted. There is a fee for recycling certain items.
For year round service, please take your hard to recycle items to:
CHaRM site, Eco-Cycle: Call 303-444-6634 or visit
www.ecocycle.org/charm/index.cfm
Household Hazardous Chemical Drop-Off
2011 Schedule: September 17, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Where: Public Works Maintenance Facility, 375 Airport Road
Items Accepted: City of Longmont sanitation subscription customers only
(please bring your utility bill as verification) may bring unwanted cleaners,
solvents, pesticides, aerosol cans, paint, and other chemical wastes for
disposal at no additional charge. Chemists will be on-site to identify and
properly dispose of many types of household hazardous chemicals.
Not Accepted: Commercial generated wastes of any kind are not accepted.
This event is for chemicals commonly used for residential purposes ONLY.
For year round service, please take your hazardous materials to:
Boulder County Household Hazardous Waste Facility: currently located at 5880 Butte Mill Road, Boulder.
The facility will move to its new location, just down the street, to 1901 63rd Street, Boulder in the Spring of 2011.
Please call ahead to verify days and hours of operation at 303-441-4800, or visit
www.co.boulder.co.us/recycling/hhw/hhwhome.htm.
Curbside Leaf Collection
2011 Schedule: October 17 — December 9, curbside by 7 a.m.
Where: Curbside
Residents may place bagged leaves only at street curbside during
the designated week.
Leaf collection information will also be published in the CityLine,
Longmont Life, and the Times-Call this fall. For your convenience,
a limited number of compostable leaf bags are available throughout
the City Departments prior to and during the event.
After Halloween, we provide Halloween pumpkin composting at the
Recycle Center at 140 South Martin Street. Refuse collection customers
are welcome to dispose of their pumpkins in the tree limb pile.
For more information, call Public Works Operations at 303-651-8416.
Large Item Stop-N-Drops
2011 Schedule: March 26, July 30, and November 19, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Where: Public Works Maintenance Facility, 375 Airport Road
Items Accepted: Sanitation subscription customers may bring large
household items for disposal. If bringing any kind of lumber, all nails must be
removed. City employees will unload your items, as you will need to remain
in your vehicle when on the Public Works Operations property. You must
bring your City of Longmont utility bill to the Stop-N-Drop, as the program is
available at no additional cost.
Not Accepted: Household waste, dirt, rock, sod, concrete, roofing materials,
chemicals, limbs, yard waste, tires, auto parts, hazardous waste or
refrigerators. Please call Public Works Operations at 303-651-8416 for
recommendations on how to dispose of these items.