Starting Monday, Longmont residents who are residential solid waste utility customers will have about two weeks in which they’ll be able to dispose of recyclable items they cannot normally leave out for city collections from their curbside recyclable materials bins.
Longmont is hosting what it’s calling a “Hard to Recycle Event” that’s to run from from 9 a.m.to 3:50 p.m. Monday through Oct. 16, and again from 9 a.m.to 3:50 p.m. Oct. 18, through Oct. 22, according to a city news release.
The event is open to any Longmont residential trash service customers. Residents must make reservations to drop off their hard-to-recycle materials at Green Girl Recycling, 21 S. Sunset St., which city officials said is its partner in the program.
Hard-to-recycle items are materials that are recyclable, but cannot go in the city’s curbside recycling cart for standard bi-weekly pick-up by Longmont solid waste collection crews.
Examples of items that will be accepted at the Longmont Hard-to-Recycle Event, officials said, include: computer monitors, keyboards and cables; flat-screen and box cathode-ray-tube TVs; printer cartridges; electronics with cords, such as toasters and printers; hard-cover books and manuals and more.
Not being accepted are such items as: household and automobile oils; plastic bags; cardboard; Styrofoam; washers and dryers; paint and other household chemicals; light bulbs and refrigerators.
For a more complete list of accepted and not accepted items, people can visit the city’s Hard-to-Recycle webpage, tinyurl.com/yevbhnfa . That website also has a link people can use for making reservations for their drop-off visits to Green Girl Recycling. City officials said reservations, which are required, will be made in 10-minute increments.
Anyone who would like to participate but cannot make a reservation online can call the city’s Customer Service Center at 303-651-8416 and ask for help. Since the event is available to Longmont residential trash customers only, people are asked to bring a recent city of Longmont utility bill and proof of identification when dropping off materials.
City staff said in its news release that the Hard to Recycle Event “reflects the Longmont City Council’s commitment to creating a more sustainable community through enhanced services such as recycling and composting. The Council had originally targeted 2022 to launch Hard-To-Recycle events but the City chose to host the event sooner.”
The city is partnering with Green Girl Recycling for this event. City officials said in their news release that “Green Girl Recycling is a Longmont-based, woman-owned business founded by Bridget Johnson in 1998. Originally focused on providing recycling services to Boulder County’s mountain communities, Green Girl has continued to expand its services as it acquired other local recycling businesses.”
The city will pay Green Girl an agreed to fixed-fee for each of the various items collected to cover their business expenses, according to Public Works and Natural Resources Operations Director Bob Allen.
“We are using common market pricing for hard to recycle items,” Allen said in a Friday email. “We expect that the majority of those items will be electronics. There is no charge to the resident or cost to the City for some items that have a commodity value. That will include specific electronic items such as computer towers, laptops, cell phones, circuit boards, etc.
“In that case, Green Girl will keep any revenue from selling those commodities to also cover event costs.”
The Link LonkOctober 10, 2021 at 12:01AM
https://www.timescall.com/2021/10/09/longmont-hosts-two-week-hard-to-recycle-event
Longmont hosts two-week hard-to-recycle event - Longmont Times-Call
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