Info on Recycling
Let’s
help Evergreen live up to its name! City of Memphis Solid Waste Management offers three recycling programs:
- Curbside recycling - Provided for all
single-family homes and multi-family housing of 8 units or less.
- Recycling drop-off centers - Provided for
residents of apartment complexes and private developments not serviced by City of Memphis Solid Waste Management. Five (5) drop-off centers are located
throughout the city.
- Yard waste recycling - Mulching and
composting of thousands of tons annually of limbs, branches, trees, leaves, shrubbery and
other organic waste commonly generated from residential yards.
Curbside recycling
collection occurs weekly on the same day as garbage collection. All homes are eligible to
receive one recycling bin.
Recyclable items
include: steel cans, aluminum cans, plastic bottles, glass bottles & jars, newspapers,
magazines, corrugated cardboard, paperboard, office paper & mail/junk mail!
For more info on
Recycling including what & how to recycle, how to request a recycling bin & the
recycling schedule, check out the “Recycle Memphis” website by clicking on the
following link: http://memphistn.gov/framework.aspx?page=666.
(Or call (901) 576-6851, ext. 4.)
The website also
contains info on properly discarding Hazardous Wastes at the Memphis & Shelby County Household Hazardous
Waste Collection facility at 6305
Haley Road. Go to the website
& click on “Hazardous Wastes” to find a map to the facility as well as a
list of acceptable & non-acceptable items.
Thanks for
helping keep Ever-GREEN!!!
Thanks to
Evergreen resident Cara Hechinger for providing this information.
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