Loading ...CITY OF WIMBERLEY TO LAUNCH FIRST INTEGRATED SINGLE-STREAM RECYCLING PROGRAM
Posted By admin on December 13, 2010
More convenient, expanded recycling program for residents and businesses in Wimberley starts in January Wimberley, TX – The City of Wimberley and Texas Disposal Systems (TDS) have announced plans to implement an integrated business and residential single-stream recycling program in Wimberley — the first of its kind in Central Texas.
The new integrated recycling program will begin the first week in January. The new program is part of a three-year contract extension between the City of Wimberley and Texas Disposal Systems. The agreement expands recycling services and allows businesses to recycle efficiently for the first time.
“We are always looking to further our efforts in sustainability to improve the Wimberley community as a whole,” said Bob Flocke, Wimberley Mayor. “Both businesses and residents asked for single-stream recycling and we are pleased to deliver a service that is going to make it easier to recycle in Wimberley.”
TDS will switch out the 18-gallon recycling bins for 96-gallon carts when single stream recycling begins in January. The program expands the list of acceptable materials and allows customers to put all their recyclables, unsorted, into the larger cart.
The expanded list of recycled materials now accepted includes paper (newspaper, office paper, shredded paper, junk mail, magazines, boxboard and cardboard); tin and aluminum (food or beverage cans); glass (unbroken glass and bottles of any color); and plastic containers (labeled PET 1-7).
“Single stream recycling helps recover and re-use valuable materials,” said Bob Gregory, Chairman and CEO of Texas Disposal Systems. “TDS is proud to expand our partnership with the City of Wimberley to reduce the amount of waste going into the landfill.”
The materials collected through the expanded recycling program in Wimberley will be transported to a state-of-the-art processing facility TDS recently opened at its landfill and recycling operation in Creedmoor.
Items recycled at the facility create an environmental benefit because recycling materials such as paper, glass, and metal helps protect valuable natural resources, save energy, promote clean air and water, and conserve landfill space.
TDS will pick up residential recycling carts curbside every other week. Business can have either a recycling dumpster or the 96-gallon single-stream recycling carts, which will be serviced as often as necessary.
“We expect to significantly increase the city’s recycling volumes with single-stream recycling,” said Mayor Flocke. “Everyone is encouraged to participate in this program and take advantage of the expanded list of materials that can be recycled.”
Comments