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New Lebo Recycling Rules

Thanks to Mike over at Blog Lebo for posting the new rules about local recycling for Mt Lebanon:

Cardboard, phone books, junk mail, magazines and newspapers will all be picked up as part of curbside recycling beginning next month.

The South Hills Area Council of Governments (SHACOG), of which Mt. Lebanon is a member, has awarded a new trash pickup contract to Waste Management, Inc., which will take effect in January. Under the terms of the contract, recycling will be handled by Green Star, an automated Neville Island facility that is equipped to handle single stream recycling. This means all of your recycling can be co-mingled in one container.

Under the new contract, the municipality pays a fl at fee to the hauler, instead of a price per ton. Mt. Lebanon will pay $1.4 million a year for trash pickup and $288,000 a year for pickup of recyclables. This breaks down to about $138.84 annually per household for the two services.

Beginning in January, the following materials will be collected by the recycling contractor: brown and green glass; aluminum, steel and bi-metal cans; plastics marked with numbers 1 through 7; copier paper, paperback books, colored paper, fi le folders, hardback books (minus the hard covers); mail inserts, business cards, shredded paper, catalogs, telephone books, poster board, greeting cards, newsprint, magazines and corrugated cardboard. Material can be placed into the recycling bins as-is, with the exception of corrugated cardboard boxes, which must be flattened and can be no more than three feet wide or long.

Recycling will be collected every other week. Inserted into this month’s issue is the trash and recycling collection schedule for 2009. Copies of the schedule are also available on weekdays from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Mt. Lebanon Customer Service Center, located in the lobby of the Mt. Lebanon Municipal Building, 710 Washington Road.

via: [Blog Lebo]