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Trash & Recycling Options in Riverdale Park
| Item | Service | When | Service Provider | Notes |
| Household trash | Curb pickup | NEW! The whole town is now serviced on Mondays & Thursdays | Bates Trash Collection 301-773-2069 is the new private contractor Comments to: Town of Riverdale Park Public Works 301-864-1803 | New totes have been delivered to all households ConsultTown Crier or other sources for schedule changes during holiday weeks |
NEW!Electronics Recycling Acceptance SiteCPUs, mice, keyboards, laptop computers, fax machines, telephone systems, printers, computer speakers, main frames, copiers, scanners, surge protectors, pagers, cell phones, cable, wire, circuit boards, cd players, radios/stereos, VCRs, any individual PC CPU component parts, ink jet and toner cartridges (from printers and fax machines) | Brown Station Road Sanitary Landfill 11611 White House Road Upper Marlboro, Maryland (301) 883-5045 | Hours of Operation Thursday, Friday and Saturday - 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sunday - Closed | Prince George's County Government | Non-commercial vehicles only Businesses may call (301) 883-5045 to obtain information on electronic recycling. |
| NEW! "Single-stream recycling" Remember to rinse all items & remove lids! Mixed - those Tetra-paks you get your soy or rice milk, chicken broth, etc. in CAN BE RECYCLED Cans - aluminum, steel and bi-metal Aluminum pie plates Glass - clear, brown and green glass food and beverage containers Paper - office paper, wrapping paper, newspaper, magazines, small catalogs, hard-and soft-bound books, telephone books and glossy inserts, corrugated cardboard Plastic - milk and water jugs; beverage containers; detergent bottles; and bleach bottles (for more specific info see here) | Curb pickup. New 65-gallon recycling bins were distributed ahead of schedule by PG County in Riverdale Park in December, 2007. For now, you may use cardboard boxes marked with an "X" for recycling as well as, presumably, the old yellow bins (order one here or call 301-952-7630). | Wednesdays | Prince George’s County, Dept of Environmental Resources 301-952-7630 | No need to separate anything now. Just make sure to rinse cans and bottles, and remove the lids. NOTE: No typical plastic yogurt containers: see below (bottom of page)* |
| Cardboard products: Cardboard and cardboard boxes (cereal boxes, shoe boxes, shipping boxes)and other paper | Drop-off for recycling | Saturday from 9 AM to 5 PM | Public Works (5012 Queensbury Rd) | This service appears to be redundant with the new county "single-stream recycling" |
| Other things you can recycle | Ideas on Reducing Waste & Recycling More | |||
| Yard waste | Curb pickup | Yard Waste Collection: WednesdayContact Bates at 301-773-2069 | Bates Trash Collection 301-773-2069 is the new private contractor | |
| Leaves | Watch TownTalk or Town Crier for notices re fall leaf collection "Leaf season will begin on October 29th, 2007 and end on January 11th, 2008." Please make sure the leaf piles contain only leaves! | |||
| Bulk trash and metal collection | Curb pickup | Bulk Trash Collection: Wednesday by Appointment | Bates Trash Collection 301-773-2069 is the new private contractor | |
| Specialty items: Tires, dehumidifiers, air conditioners, refrigerators/ freezers | Call Public Works??? 301-864-1803 | Tires: $2.50 ea Dehumidifiers: $5.00 ea Air Conditioners: $15.00 ea Refrigerators/freezers: $25.00 ea State law requires doors be removed when set out for pickup. All seniors shall receive a twenty percent (20%) discount on these fees for specialty services | ||
| Oil | Drop off | Saturday 9 - 5 | Public Works (5012 Queensbury Rd) | No paint |
the below information is now out of date with PG County's upgraded single stream recycling: Up to #5 triangle packaging (which includes yogurt containers) can be recycled!
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*NOTE on plastic yogurt containers (thanks to Rumi Matsuyama who posted this info to the Hyattsville HOPE email list):
For what it's worth, "drinkable" yogurt containers are recyclable. Basically, you need to look for either a 1 or a 2 inside a triangle on the bottom of any plastic container before recycling it -- anything that's not 1 or 2 isn't accepted by our county recycling.
Here's what Stonyfield says about the great yogurt container debate:
HDPE (#2) vs. Polypropylene (#5) Plastic
As a result of the Tellus Study, we decided to convert our yogurt packaging to the lightest weight plastic that would protect our product. Despite not being recyclable in most communities, we moved to polypropylene plastic. In using polypropylene (#5) packaging, Stonyfield uses significantly less plastic than we would if we made our cups with HDPE #2 plastic. One of the most beneficial characteristics of #5 plastic is that its structure allows the container to be made of thinner walls, while maintaining the same structural integrity. Our quart containers are over 30% lighter today than they were 10 years ago. By using #5 plastic instead of #2, each year we prevent the manufacture and disposal of over 100 tons of plastic, resulting in environmental savings from the decreased air emissions and resource depletion from the manufacture and distribution of the packaging. In addition, the polypropylene is manufactured without the use of chlorine, thus eliminating the hazards of deadly dioxin releases during manufacture and incineration, which occur with certain other plastics.
Still, many of our customers have requested that we use HDPE (#2) plastic because it's the only yogurt container recycled in their community. Unfortunately, although many communities accept #2 plastic for recycling, in most cases, the #2 wide mouth containers are actually recycling bottles only. Bottles and wide-mouth containers such as yogurt containers have different melting points, thus rendering them undesirable for recycling together. Many communities accept all HDPE plastics to avoid consumer confusion, then they landfill or incinerate all but the bottles. The 1997 national recycling rate for HDPE bottles was over 24%, but less than 2 % of wide-mouthed HDPE plastic (such as yogurt cups) was recycled-equal to the rate of recycling for wide-mouthed polypropylene packaging. (R.W. Beck 1997 National Post-Consumer Plastics Recycling Rate Study).
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