Maximum Holiday Recycling Program
When the holidays are
over most Warwick residents have a lot of extra material to dispose
of; all that crumpled wrapping paper and crunched up gift boxes.
Most of that gift wrap
is recyclable. You can help by continuing the gift giving the
week after Christmas by giving all that unwanted paper and cardboard
to Warwick's Maximum Holiday Recycling Program. Don't let all
that material take up space in the landfill when it can be used
over and over again in recycled paper.
We
are asking all Warwick residents to join together to recycle their
used gift wrap and cardboard / gift boxes. Trying to fit all that
paper in small grocery bags is impossible, it just doesn't work!
During the Christmas season we want to make this mandatory program
as simple as possible. Again this year , we will be collecting
these items in the large yard waste bags.
Fill up the bag with
your wrapping paper and small cardboard boxes and put it out on
the curb next to your blue bin on your first collection day after
Christmas. If you miss the collection, December 26 thru December
31, you may drop off your material at the Municipal Recycling
Facility or put the material out the following week in grocery
bags (not in the large yard waste bags).
- Use yard waste bags for the
recycling of your gift wrap, tissue paper and small cardboard
boxes for one week only, December 26 - December 31. Place
at curbside next to your green bin.
- There are two kinds of gift
wrap that are not recyclable: paper and boxes that have a
plastic or foil coating. Those go in the trash.
- You can put any other kind of
paper that we normally collect, like junk mail, writing paper,
holiday cards, etc. Larger cardboard boxes must be bundled
and tied.
- Do not put paper out in plastic
bags.
This additional collection
of paper in the large bags will only last one week. Please do
not put paper in these large bags after this week or any other
time of the year. During this one week, please do not place anything
else in the bags other than materials outlined above. We are adding
this extra collection to make it convenient for everyone to recycle
these mandatory items, if there are things other than recyclable
paper/cardboard in the bags we will not be able to hold this extra
collection again next Christmas.
For more information
on the Maximum Holiday Recycling Program contact the Warwick Recycling
Office at 738-2000, ext. 6513.
Thank you for your participation
& enjoy the holidays.
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