It's new. It's blue. It's knocking
Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 15 years, 2 months AGO
Open the Door to 64 ...
... gallons, that is. The City of Coeur d'Alene's recycling service is expanding. Starting in mid-October, residents will be able to recycle more items and they will all go into one, new, blue, 64-gallon cart, which holds five times as much as the current recycling bin.
Once the new recycling program begins, the 64-gallon recycling cart is the only container Coeur d'Alene/Waste Management customers will have to use.
Until that time, please continue to use your current recycling bin. If you don't want to keep the bin for other uses, put it upside down at the curb next to your recycling cart, and it will be collected for recycling.
The blue, 64-gallon recycling cart ushers in a new program: single-stream recycling. This means that more recyclables are accepted now, including a wider variety of paper products - cereal boxes, junk mail, and office paper. Even plastic containers will now be accepted, including beverage containers, dairy tubs, plant containers, laundry detergent bottles, and plastic cups, plates and trays.
This is thanks to a partnership between the city of Coeur d'Alene, Kootenai County, and Waste Management. With single-stream recycling, just about everything can be tossed into the 64-gallon recycling carts, doubling both the amount and types of items that can be recycled (the only things that can't be recycled at the curb are glass and plastic bags).
Your new recycling carts will be emptied every other week. Garbage will still be collected weekly. When your cart arrives, a collection calendar and detailed guidelines will come with it to help you keep track of your recycling week and all the items that can now be recycled.
"This is a program that will provide great benefit to the citizens of Coeur d'Alene - less waste in the landfill and more products being recycled is a winner for our wallets and our environment," said Councilman Mike Kennedy. "I hope we see a massive increase in participation because it's easy, it's convenient, and it's the right thing to do."
For more information about the single-stream recycling program, please call Waste Management at 765-4968 or visit the website at www.wmnorthwest.com/coeurdalene.