City of Fayetteville Recycling Day Tour November 15, 2011

November 15th is America Recycles Day and the City of Fayetteville will celebrate the day by offering a tour of the City’s Transfer Station and Recycling Center located at 1560 S. Happy Hollow Road in southeast Fayetteville beginning at 10 am at the Solid Waste and Recycling office. The tour is conducted outdoors so please dress appropriately for the tour. If there is rain, the tour will be canceled.

In addition to the tour, the City proudly announces that two new programs have been introduced within our Recycling programs. Apartment recycling is now occurring at two large apartment complexes in Fayetteville. The Cliff’s on Crossover and North Creekside on Leverett have begun recycling service using a specialized container that allows for source separated recycling of the four highest valued commodities in our recycling program; aluminum cans, steel cans, and plastic #1 and #2 bottles. Recycling containers for cardboard and one for mixed paper are also part of the service for recycling. The program is looking for apartment complexes over 100 units that are willing to participate.

The second program being introduced is recycling collection for #3 through #7 bottles and containers is being made available at the Recycling Drop Off located at 1420 S. Happy Hollow in southeast Fayetteville which is open 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. The service will not be available immediately through our curbside service due to the need for modifications on our recycling trucks.

Inclusion in the curbside program will occur at a later date. It is extremely important to not include plastic bags into the drop off container. Plastic bags will get into the sorting equipment used at the site processing the plastic and cause mechanical failures. Large blocks of Styrofoam is also not acceptable. So please start saving the #3 through #7 bottles and containers and bring them down to our recycling drop off located at 1420 S. Happy Hollow Road.

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