Talking Trash

Monday, June 27, 2011

Independence Day 2011 - modified trash and recycling collection schedule

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Monday, July 4, 2011 - Independence 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 your normal collection day is	Your collection day for the week of July 4, 2011, is
Monday	Tuesday, July 5
Tuesday	Wednesday, July 6
Wednesday	Thursday, July 7
Thursday	Friday, July 8
Friday	Saturday, July 9

If you have any questions or concerns about your County-provided collection, please call the Montgomery County Customer Service Center at 3-1-1 (out-of-County: 240-777-0311, TTY: 240-773-3556)

If you (or your community) have a private contract for your trash collection, or if you live in a municipality, our schedule announcements may not apply to your trash service -- check with your hauler or community manager.

Shady Grove Processing Facility and Transfer Station

• Monday, July 4, 2011: Administrative offices and facility drop-offs closed
• Transfer Station location, hours and other details

Poolesville Beauty Spot

• Saturday and Sunday, July 2 and 3, 2011: normal weekend hours
• Beauty Spot location, hours and other details

Friday, June 17, 2011

Have end-of-the-school-year books and papers to recycle?

The end of the school year comes with cleaning out of files, shelves, desks and more.  

It's easy to drop your loose papers into the next paper recycling container. 

But, what about books?  If you receive Montgomery County-provided curbside recycling collection, these book types  can all go into your paper bundles or wheeled paper recycling carts:

• spiral-bound books
• hardback books
• softcover/paperback books

The exception is leather-bound books: leather bindings cannot be recycled with paper.  If it's possible to remove the book's pages, you could add those to your paper recycling, and then dispose of the binding as trash.  Otherwise, please put the entire leather-bound book into the trash or put it to creative reuse.

Read more paper recycling do's and don'ts

For confidential papers and spring cleanups, we've got one more paper shredding and household good donation event on our Spring 2011 schedule.  See time and location details on our paper shredding page.

-- posted by Susanne

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