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Business Curbside Recycling Collection

Business curbside recycling will be picked up on Mondays and Wednesdays.

All paper products (ex: office paper, newspaper, books, magazines, junk mail, dry food containers, and cereal boxes) should be put together in 1 clear plastic bag.

Everything else which includes plastic bottles, aluminum and tin cans, and all colors of glass bottles and jars without caps and lids in another clear plastic bag. All containers should be rinsed out and should be empty of water or any other content.

When a bag is full, place it beside your regular garbage at the pickup location or beside a dumpster if your business has one on a Monday or Wednesday and it will be collected.

Several large recycling dumpsters have been located throughout the Central Business District and at other business locations for cardboard to be placed in, so use those if they are convenient. If not, place the cardboard beside your recycling bags and it will be picked up on Mondays or Wednesdays.

Residential Curbside Recycling Collection

Residential recyclables will be collected on the same day as regular garbage collection, and must be placed in a clear plastic bag. Do not put garbage in clear trash bags.

All paper products should be put in 1 clear plastic bag. Examples are:

• office paper
• newspaper
• books
• magazines
• junk mail
• dry food containers
• cereal boxes

Everything else should be placed in another clear plastic bag. All containers should be rinsed out and should be empty of water or any other content. Lids or caps MUST BE removed as they could present a danger during the baling process. Examples of other recyclables are:

• plastic bottles and containers numbers 1 through 7 without caps or lids
• aluminum and tin cans, foil, trays
• aerosol cans (must be empty)
• all colors of glass bottles and jars without caps or lids

Items which ARE NOT recyclable include:

• no rigid plastic toys
• no styrofoam (egg cartons, packing materials, plates, cups)
• no waxed milk or juice cartons
• no batteries.

When a bag is full, place it beside your regular garbage at the pickup location and it will be collected. Cardboard should be broken down or flattened and placed at the collection point.

For residents who live in the Central Business District or live over businesses in the downtown or who live in apartment buildings, your recyclables will be collected on Wednesdays along with the business recycling collection. Place your clear plastic bags and cardboard at your normal pickup location or beside the dumpster of the business and it will be collected every Wednesday.

All recycling collection routes will be picked up on all holidays except Christmas Day which will be collected on the next work day after Christmas.

The following businesses have clear plastic bags for recycling:

• Buddie's True Value Hardware, 517 East Nelson Street
  • Hefty 13 and 30 gallon
• Cool Spring Organic Market, 800 South Main Street
  • Hefty 13 and 30 gallon
• Food Lion, 84 East Midland Trail
  • Food Lion brand 39 gallon
• Kroger, 422 East Nelson Street
  • Presto 39 gallon
• Lexington Building Supply, 114 McLaughlin Street
  • Ruffy, 30 gallon
• Rockbridge Farmer's Coop, 645 Waddell Street
  • Ruffy 33 gallon
• Wal-Mart, 1233 North Lee Highway
  • Hefty 13 and 30 gallon
  • Glad 13 gallon
  • Ruffy 33 gallon

If it is a true hardship for some residents to obtain the recycle bags, please call Public Works at 463-3154.

White goods, refrigerators, stoves, washing machines, dryers, hot water tanks, etc., should be placed at the collection point for pick up by the brush truck. See Brush Collection.

If you have any questions concerning the curbside recycling collection program, please call the Public Works Department at 463-3154.

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