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About Us...
I started the Green Girl Recycling myself (knocked
on
a million doors for over 100 days straight) back in
98' - I focused on the mountain community w/i Boulder
County providing a complete recycling package to every
house and business in the areas spanning Lyons to Cole
Creek Canyon.. from Broadway in Boulder to the Peak to
Peak Hwy.
We pick-up recycling from people's garages,
sheds, etc..
so it's SUPER easy for people to use the service!
Normal Recycling:
1. Paper Products: Newspapers, Office Paper, Junk Mail, Magazines, and Paperboard.
2. Co-Mingled Items: Glass (brown, green & White), Aluminum Cans, Steel Cans, Plastics (#2, #4), and Milk Cartons.
3. Cardboard Boxes: Flattened please!
Hard-to-Recycle Items:
1. * Packing Peanuts-tied in plastic bag, books, sneakers, small scrap metals, clothing, computer components, & loose plastic bags (#4). Many other items as well
The following is a list of all of the items that The Green Girl recycles and how to prepare them for recycling.
GLASS
Jars and bottles only (Green, White & Brown)
No dishes, mirrors, light bulbs, window glass, auto glass or drinking glasses
Please rinse glass out well, labels o.k.
CANS/STEEL/ALUMINUM
Aluminum, tin and steel cans (rinsed please)
Aluminum foil (please rinse if soiled)
Aluminum pie pans and to-go containers (rinsed)
No scrap metal with the aluminum please
PLASTICS
#1 Bottles and screw-top jars
#2 Milk jugs and any other translucent white beverage bottles with a #2 on bottom
#2 Colored bottles (detergent bottles, shampoo & conditioner bottles)
No motor oil bottles
No lids please
MILK CARTONS/JUICE BOXES
Cartons - ie. soy milk or soup containers (rinsed)
Remove and discard straws, rinse and flatten
No paper cups please
NEWSPAPER
Newspaper, including inserts that come with the paper
OFFICE PAPER
Copy and type paper, loose leaf paper, pamphlets, memos and post-it notes, FAX paper, greeting cards, pastel and legal paper, adding machine tapes
Manila and pastel folders
Slick or glossy ads
Envelopes - discard stickers or decals, windows are o.k.
No paper with serious food contamination
PHONE BOOKS
All telephone books are recycable
MAGAZINES AND CATALOGS
All magazines
No catalogs with glue bindings larger than 1/4" thick
PAPERBOARD
Cereal/cracker boxes and other simmilar boxes
(no inside bags)
Egg cartons, cardboard type
Gift boxes
Hanging file folders
Paper bags, shopping bags (not brown-these go with cardboard), paper tubes, shoe boxes
Six pack cartons and 12-pack boxes
NON-RECYCLABLE PAPERS
Paper contaminated with food
Carbon paper
Fet food, charcoal or fertilizer bags
Tyvek envelopes (used for overnight packages)
Used tissues, napkins or paper towels
Photographs
Foil lined boxes
CARDBOARD
Corrugated cardboard (two layers with waves inbetween them) Brown paper bags.
Please flatten all cardboard at seams
HARDER TO RECYCLE ITEMS-ITEMS TAKEN FOR AN EXTRA CHARGE
Computer equipment, scrap metals, books, small furniture pieces, light bulbs.
Salvation Army type items - (clothing, sneakers, kitchen utensils)
Loose plastic bags (#2, #4) all bags tied into one larger bag (completely clean and dry)
Packing peanuts (tied tightly into one large plastic bag)
For a complete list of harder to recycle items throughout Boulder County contact Eco-Cycle http://www.ecocycle.org/
ITEMS WE CAN NOT RECYCLE
Fluids, styrofoam blocks, food grade styrofoam, chemicals, oil
or hazardous waste.
All hazardous materials can be taken to CHaRM (updated info available soon...)
REDUCING JUNK MAIL
Send sample labels from unwanted mail that show all variations of your name to:
Mail Preference Service Direct Marketing Association, Inc.
P.O. Box 9008
Farmingdale, N.Y. 11735-9008
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