Trash and Recycle Collection
IMPORTANT CURRENT TRASH COLLECTION NOTICE: Dear customers, a new 3-year trash contract with Waste Management has been approved. The contract allows for emptying two 96 gal trash bins weekly and one 96 gallon recycle biweekly. All items must be inside the bins for both trash and recycle. Items must be in Waste Mgmt bins. Extra bins can be added for $6/mo - contact WM directly -- you will be billed for extra bins to be emptied directly by WM. Call WM directly if you don't have two WM trash and one WM recycle 96 gallon bin. Bins will be provided free of charge. WM: (800)482-6406. Make sure to tell them you are with the East Valley Metro Contract.
TRASH COLLECTION
The East Valley Metro District coordinates a weekly community trash collection service through a private trash hauler for the residents of Algonquin Acres. Residents in the Valley Country Club Estates are obligated to a similar community contract through their home owners association and may have a different vendor and trash day. For EV residents, a monthly trash charge appears on the water bill. The EV service rate is up to 50% less than if each homeowner individually arranged for trash services and thus the reason a community contract was arranged. A community collection contract also eliminates multiple trash haulers coming into the neighborhood, likely on different days.
See and download the every other week RECYCLE SCHEDULE on the Reports/Forms page. East Valley weeks are highlighted in gold.
PLACING TRASH CANS
To assist with automated dumping and other factors...
- Put rolling bins with the wheels and lid hinge facing your house
- Put rolling bins about 2 feet apart
- Do not place cans next to mail boxes, trees or too far up into you driveway so that the driver can get to the cans with the automated collection arm.
- Our US Mail carrier has requested that trash/recycle bins not be placed in front of mail boxes, this impedes their ability to quickly drive up to the mail box for efficient delivery.
- Recycle items MUST be put in marked recycle containers of any type. Markings for recycle include a yellow or purple lid and/or stickers/logos on the container saying “recycle” or having a recycle symbol.
OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
- Please try to place cans out no earlier and take in no later than 24 hours of the day of service.
- Cans with items like limbs & lumber sticking out considerably above the top may not be taken.
- Pickup day will be delayed one day when a holiday falls during the week before our pick up day.
- Rarely, but sometimes, things like storms, staffing and equipment issues may delay trash pick a day or two, please leave your items out.
RECYCLING WEEKS and INFORMATION
Recycle is picked up every other week. You can view and download the East Valley trash recycle schedule, our weeks are highlighted in gold, on the Reports/Documents page
For information on what can and cannot be recycled see below please or go to our vendor’s web site at this link and then click on the “Download the Guide” button. The materials included in our curb-side recycling program are chosen for their ability to be returned to commerce in a method that is economically viable to re-manufacturers. We encourage you to make your purchasing decisions with this in mind.
Where do the recyclables go? As part of Waste Management's nationwide Recycle America program, your recyclables are collected, sorted and baled. They are then shipped by rail and truck to various recycling mills within the U.S. and overseas. Your recyclables are then re-manufactured into new products. More at http://www.wm.com/location/colorado/co/index.jsp
