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Please Don’t Bag Anything But Paper Products!
Bagging plastic, glass, tin, and aluminum causes problems for the Recycling Center. Please put these items in your recycling bin loose. If you have questions, please call the Recycling Center at 641-683-0685.
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Plates – disposable type – plastic, paper or Styrofoam
Dispose of with your regular weekly trash.
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Office Paper
put in see-through plastic bags and place in curbside recycling bin or drop off at Recycling Center.
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Cardboard Recycling
Paper & Cardboard Recycling Cardboard and paper products are some of the most prevalent materials in the waste stream. In the recycling and waste industry, these products are referred to as “fiber” due to the microscopic fibers that make up the products. This category of recyclable materials includes products such as corrugated cardboard, paperboard, office paper, newspaper and magazines. While each of these materials is easily recyclable, it’s estimated that each year much of it is L...
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Improper Disposal of Lithium Batteries Starts Fires
Automotive oil, transmission fluid, antifreeze, automotive batteries, ni-cd batteries, hard and paperback books, and sharps may be brought to the Ottumwa/Wapello County Recycling Center at 2415 Emma Street. Hours, Monday—Friday 7am—4pm & Saturday 7am—Noon. Lithium batteries can cause fires. Don’t dispose of them in your trash. They have caused many Landfill and Recycling Center fires throughout the Country. Some fires have burned for very long periods of time. The Recycling Center i...
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Post Holiday Ideas
COVID-19 had a way of postponing and disrupting many holiday plans this year and it’s likely you may still have holiday decorations up. Before packing things up for next year or throwing anything away, consider these tips: Compost your greenery. Live trees and wreaths can be composted in Franklin County by placing them at the curb on your yard waste collection day. Make sure to remove any lights and decorations first. Donate decorations or lights. Before you pack up and put away items, consid...
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Recycle Right- Recycle Often
Recycling right can help you make a positive impact on your community. This effort reduces landfill emissions, protects local jobs and ensures the environment is healthy and clean for future generations. To help the Ottumwa/Wapello County Recycling Center Recycle Right and make a difference, follow these five tips for recycling: Don’t mix paper products in bags with plastic, tin, glass, and aluminum: These products go to separate areas to be sorted. Bagging them altogether makes mor...
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Tips for saving a little green and the planet
How are you dealing with old newspaper, expired milk, broken latex gloves, and scraps? Besides disposing them into trash, is there any ways we could reuse them? Here are some tips on how to take advantage of this waste. Old newspaper: 1. Maintain and polish the shoes How: Make the newspaper into balls and plug them into your shoes. It allows your recently worn shoes to contract and prevents moisture. You could also use newspapers to wipe the black shoes with shoe polish. 2. Clean the windows Ho...
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Summer BBQ Tips for Reducing Waste and Saving Some Coin
Fill up pitchers of water, lemonade and iced tea instead of buying large quantities of personal-sized beverage containers. This not only reduces waste, but saves money. Buy in bulk: Purchase large bags of chips and large bottles of ketchup and other condiments rather than individually packaged items. This will cost less money and will result in a lot less packaging waste. Encourage recycling by placing clearly labeled recycling bins next to garbage cans. Keep the bins side by side to inc...
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Recycling News Article
The Ottumwa Recycling Center opened in June of 1992. Recycling operations have remained relatively unchanged. The communities we serve were the same then as now, with the exception of Eddyville leaving our planning area to join Mahaska Counties planning area. All but the very smallest communities had curbside collection then, and still do. The only items we have added to our list of accepted items are, newspaper inserts, paperboard, rechargeable batteries, electronics, and fluorescent tubes. W...
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Preparing Recycling For Collection
As you go through your week, and the recycling is accumulating, please keep these things in mind as you are assembling things in your recycling bin: When you bag all materials together, someone has to go through all of it and separate it. Paper is baled separately from cardboard. Glass, plastic, tin, and aluminum should never be bagged with any paper because it is a contaminate. Only newspapers, office paper, paperback books, magazines, catalogs, and phone books can be bagged together. Some of t...
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Broken Glass
carefully wrap in newspaper or cardboard and dispose of in your regular trash.
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Waste Management Facts
Reduce Reducing waste requires people to think of efficient ways to prevent trash and household hazardous waste from ending up in the garbage can. Garbage is inevitably buried in the landfill to never be used again. For starters, avoid buying and using disposable items like paper products, straws, and single serving containers. Another habit you should highly consider is to use products that will not harm human health and the environment. Using natural non-toxic cleaning products will limit the...
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Garbage Collection
Trash Every household in Ottumwa has been assigned a 64 gallon, wheeled trash cart for weekly curbside pickup. All trash should be bagged before it’s placed in the cart. Place all trash in the cart and close the lid. Don’t stack trash on top of the cart. Extra trash can be collected in 32-gallon trash bags with an extra container sticker attached. Extra trash stickers are for bags only, cost $1.00 each and will still be available at local grocery store...
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Natural Resource Savings From Recycling
Do you wonder if placing that material in your recycling bin is doing any good? It really is. The Ottumwa/Wapello Recycling Center receives an Environmental responsibility report from one of the companies we ship cardboard and newspaper through. Between July 1, 2017, and September 30, 2017, Davis and Wapello County Residents and businesses saved 1,119,597 Kilowatts of electricity, 1,111 cubic yards of Landfill space, 5,278 pounds of air pollution, 1,943,900 gallons of water 4,721 trees, and 1,...
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Natural Resource Savings From Recycling
Do you wonder if placing that material in your recycling bin is doing any good? It really is. The Ottumwa/Wapello Recycling Center receives an Environmental responsibility report from one of the companies we ship cardboard and newspaper through. Between October 1, 2014, and December 31, 2014, Davis and Wapello County Residents and businesses saved 1,978,326 Kilowatts of electricity, 1,965 cubic yards of Landfill space, 8,284 pounds of air pollution, 3,437,910 gallons of water, 8,349 trees, and...