What We Accept

CARDBOARD - Located in Trailer #1.

• Corrugated Cardboard
• Pasteboard - i.e. cereal boxes, gift boxes and the like

Flatten all cardboard. Small cardboard and slick pasteboard pack into available boxes along the wall of the trailer tightly.

Volunteers have to climb the stack to load the trailer so we build the stack so that it is safe to do so. Slick pasteboard in the stack creates dangerous “fault lines” which is why we ask that they get boxed. Please follow these instructions to help the Volunteers and the Public be safe.

Please do not leave water logged cardboard, greasy or oily cardboard, food in cardboard (remove pizza remnants) or cardboard that is heavily dirty. These are all contaminants.

PAPER - Located in Trailer #2.

• Newspaper
• Magazines
• Office paper
• Mail
• Soft Bound Books

If you are able, please pack in a paper bag or bundle with twine so that we can periodically build paper walls to hold the paper back in the trailer to the height required to maximize tonnage. The target height is marked by orange tape on the walls near the front of the stack.

Please do not keep paper in plastic bags or boxes as they are contaminants. Remove and throw all loose paper as far back in trailer as possible and recycle bag and box in appropriate location.

Hard Bound Books are not recyclable even with their hard covers removed. This is because the binding gums up the equipment causing issues during the re-pulping process.

• Shredded Paper – Bag and place in Green Shed. We allow the public to use it for animal bedding, gardening, crafts, etc. If the shed gets full we top fill Trailer #2 with it to finish out the load.

Please make sure that you do not bring wet paper as it can mold in trailer and contaminate the load.
Wet Paper = Trash.

PLASTIC

• Plastics coded #1, 2, 4 and 5 (Look on the bottom of the container in the recycling triangle)
  
  Put loose plastics in labeled totes. If you have a garbage bag of plastic that you are leaving, place bag over by bin of plant containers.
  
  Small Plastics - Lids can remain on containers but if removed please place them along with any other small plastics, such as straws, in the garbage can labeled “Small Plastics”.
  
  Plastic lids with steel inserts need to be recycled with steel. Ensure and Snapple Beverage Containers are a good examples.
  
  
• Plastic bags – Separate the plastic bags from all other plastics and place them in large garbage bags that are located in various convenient locations at MARC:
  (1) far end of the clear and brown glass rolloff, (2) in front of the plastics compacter (3) at the end of Trailer #1 and #2.
  
  Plastic Bags can be grocery bags as well as any other type of plastic bag.
  
  
• Flower/Planting Pots – When the Gardening Dept. is open at Lowe’s during the summer, please take your pots there as they recycle them and that is where we haul them. When the Gardening Dept. is closed, we can accept flower pots but no planting packs as they are #6’s and not recyclable.
  

What's not recyclable in plastics?

• Plastics coded #3, 6 and 7
• Vinyl siding
• PVC pipe
• Foamed polystyrene
• Styrofoam
• Any plastic with metal: screws, springs, hinges

METAL

• Steel -
  Food cans such as fruit, vegetable, juice and soup cans. All food cans must be empty and rinsed.
  Empty Steel paint cans
• Aluminum -
  Beverage cans, aluminum foil, pie plates and misc. aluminum scrap.

Special Sorting Instructions:

• Aluminum foil & Pie Plates (Aluminum) –
  Separate from other aluminum and place in garbage can with “Aluminum Foil”
• Cat Food & Dog Food (Aluminum) –
  Separate from other aluminum and place in garbage can with “Cat and Dog Food Aluminum Only”.

What's not recyclable in metals?

• No aerosal containers.
• Coat hangers.

GLASS – Bottle Glass Only

• Clear Glass
• Brown Glass
• Green & Blue Glass

Rinse and make sure lids are removed. Glass should be separated by the three groups above. Clear and Brown go in marked totes. Green & Blue go in special green trailer marked for this glass.

What's not recyclable in Glass?

• Mirrors
• Window glass
• Ceramics
• Light bulbs
• Drinking glasses
• Pyrex or other tempered glass
• Cosmetic containers

Drop Off Sites for Miscellaneous Materials

• Motor Oil: Autoparts Stores
• Yard Waste: Greenleaf Compost Farm

Special Collection Days by the Southeastern Ohio Joint Solid Waste District:

Household Hazardous Waste:

• Household Hazardous Waste Collection - go to www.wasteabate.org for schedule – Biannual Event next in 2020
  Solvay Employees Park 11 River Lane Marietta, OH 45750

Tires:

• Scrap Tire Collection Day – www.wasteabate.org for schedule – Annual Event
  Washington Co. Garage 1405 Colegate Dr. Marietta, OH 45750

Appliances/Computers:

• Appliance Collection Day - go to www.wasteabate.org for schedule – Annual Event
  Washington Co. Garage 1405 Colegate Dr. Marietta, OH 45750
• Computer/TV Collection – go to www.wasteabate.org for schedule - Annual Event
  Washington Co. Garage 1405 Colegate Dr. Marietta, OH 45750

Other Recycling Opportunities in Marietta and Surrounding Area:

• Marietta Curbside Recycling Program
  Contact: Rumpke
  Phone: 888-786-7531
  
• Southeastern Ohio Joint Solid Waste Management District -
  County Trailers - Go to their website www.wasteabate.org for schedule and locations
  Phone: 740/732-5493 or 800/860-8103

Do you need these? We would like to have them reused before recycling...first come first serve!