Service Guidelines
Green Cart: Non-hazardous waste, Household
Additional service required for these materials, please call for more information about disposing of:
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Paints
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Chemicals; Fluids (may cause a mess and additional clean up)
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Rocks, Cement, Gravel, Dirt
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State Mandated Medical Waste; State Mandated Hazardous Waste
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Heavy items or additional waste that “overfills” the cart preventing the lid from closing.
It is highly suggested that regular light household waste is placed in a garbage bag and sealed to prevent waste from spilling and creating a mess when dumping, it will also keep carts clean for a long period of time. It is your responsibility to keep your carts clean, if you want to switch them out Brandt’s can change out your carts for a fee.
Brown Cart: Yard Debris
Service is every other week (bi-weekly).
Acceptable items include:
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Grass
- ALL FOOD WASTE is Accepted!
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Leaves
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Twigs
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Brush
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Pine Needles
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Christmas Trees (trimmed down)
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Pumpkins
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Limbs (not over 4” in Diameter).
These items are not acceptable in the brown bin:
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Ashes
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Dirt
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Sod
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Rock
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Gravel
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Stones
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Cement
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Stumps
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Logs
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Animal waste or litter
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Painted or finished wood
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NO PLASTIC BAGS!
Items must be free from contamination (no plastics, plastic bags or any bags for that matter, household waste, and “garbage”). The lid must be closed completely to prevent the excess mess.
All Food waste can be disposed of in your Yard Debris (brown cart).
Additional dumps are not allowed for yard debris pick up especially on recycling weeks. If you have more demand for space in your yard debris bin composting is an affordable option. If you happen to need additional yard debris bins that is an option with a monthly charge associated with it as well as a delivery fee.
Blue Cart: Recycling/Commingle
Service is every other week (bi-weekly).
Acceptable items include:
- Cardboard/Greyboard: These items must be separated from other contaminants and flattened.
- Please take Styrofoam out of cardboard it is a household waste and should be placed in the GREEN cart.
- Plastic packing materials must also be separated and placed in the GREEN cart because it is WASTE and non-recyclable.
- We encourage you to self-separate your cardboard and greyboard from your BLUE cart and bring down to our convenient 24-hour recycling depot and placed flattened in our large red cardboard containers.
- NO PIZZA BOXES or EGG CARTONS!!
- Paper:
- Magazines
- Newspaper
- Phone books
- Paperback books
- Catalogs
- Clean mixed paper
- Office paper
- Copier printer paper
- Paper bags, and notepaper.
- Please do not bundle paper, no plastic bags, no glitter and the newest one NO SHREDDED PAPER!!
- Tin & Aluminum:
- Acceptable items include
- All food safe tin & coffee tin, please rinse and clean out food waste.
- Things that are NOT acceptable for tin or aluminum would be
- Metal products (brass, bronze, cast iron, copper, and steel)
- Cooking products
- Foil or aerosol cans!
- Plastics: All plastics must be rinsed, cleaned and dried.
- Please follow the new universal recycling list which is on our resources page.
- lids need to be brought to our recycling center to our PRO Depot, follow the signs and sort accordingly.
These items are not acceptable in the blue bin:
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To go, take out, clamshell containers (all sizes)
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Solo cups or Drink Cups (No dutch bros cups, coffee cups)
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Child toys
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Car parts
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Plastic Bags
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Plumbing piping (PVC pipes) or Gutters
All items placed in Blue Recycling/Commingle Cart must be empty, clean & dry.
Yellow Bin: Glass/Oil
Service is every other week (bi-monthly) and is always the same week as Recycling (Blue Cart).
Acceptable items include:
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Glass bottles and jars
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Motor Oil that isn’t mixed with any other liquid and placed in a sealed container (2 gallons max)
These items are not acceptable in the yellow bin:
- Brown paper bags
- Broken glass
- NO LIDS!! – These should be placed in Recycling cart if they are Aluminum.
- Light bulbs
- Window glass
- Flower Vases
- Ceramics
- Mirrors
- Cardboard drink carriers
- Plastic Bags
- Any chemicals or liquids.
- Motor oil is the only acceptable liquid in the yellow bin
*We accept batteries, ALKALINE batteries only, Lithium batteries need to be taken to the Marion County Household Hazardous Waste Facility, only small household batteries and they need to be placed in a sealable bag, in your yellow bin.
