Recycling

Announcing a new curbside recycling program

for rural communities

The initial pilot project with Neighbors NWA helped Boston Mountain Solid Waste District recognize what works well for rural areas in a bagged, curbside recycling program. The project ran from the end of January to June 30, 2024.

We are now looking to work with more haulers to bring the rural curbside recycling program to more communities. See below for how it works!

Blue bags hold 20 – 30 gallons and are for your mixed paper, shredded paper, paperboard, junk mail, newspaper, and magazines. Flatten cardbroad and place it underneath the bags.

Green bags hold 55 – 60 gallons and are for your #1 and #2 plastic bottles, aluminum cans, and steel cans.

Each household participating in rural curbside recycling receives five bags for per quarter. If your household needs extra bags, contact your hauler to receive up to five additional bags for the remainder of the quarter. At the beginning of the next quarter, an additional five recycling bags will be dropped off at your household.

How the Rural, Curbside Recycling Program Works:

-Contact your hauler to see if they offer curbside recycling service

-If you trash hauler participates in the bagged, curbside recycling program, they will bring you five recycling bags to for a three-month period.

-The bags are large. Put them by the curb on pickup day only once they are almost full.

-Five more recycling bags will be dropped off at your home for the next quarter.

What Belongs in Your Recycling Bags:

Green Bags -

• #1 Plastic bottles (water bottles, soda bottles)

• #2 Plastic bottles (milk jugs, detergent bottles)

• Aluminum cans

• Steel cans

Blue Bags -

• Mixed paper

• Paperboard

• Junk mail

• Newspaper, magazines