WASTE & RECYCLING

If you are a new property owner please contact this office to have the waste and recycling changed into your name and also find out what day your waste is picked up. The waste billing is done on a quarterly basis and is currently $45.35 per unit. This includes household waste and recycling.

HERE ARE SOME BASIC GUIDELINES TO FOLLOW

Need a
Recycling Bin?
Call  931-8840

•  Weekly household trash may consist of an unlimited number of regular size trash cans and/or plastic bags with a maximum capacity of 30 gallons each and shall not exceed 75 pounds of weight per container. Always use tight fitting lids, to avoid blowing trash and animal messes.
   

• All wooden and cardboard paper boxes must be broken down and tied into small bundles.

• Yard waste may be set out with household waste. Branches and shrub must be tied up in bundles no more than 4 feet in length and 2 feet in diameter and weighing no more than 75 pounds. Carpet and padding must also be cut up and rolled in lengths no longer than 4 feet, tied up and weighing no more than 75 pounds.

• Put trash out the night before pickup.

• Recycling is included, use red recycle bin, available at City Hall.

• HOUSEHOLD WASTE ONLY. NO HAZARDOUS WASTE, NO TIRES, and NO BUILDING SCRAP (DRYWALL, PLYWOOD, 2X4 WOOD, ETC..) call  Rumpke at 742-2900 for info.

• If you have large items (stoves, washers, furniture etc…) call Rumpke at 742-2900 two days in advance. (refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners and de-humidifiers must have CFCs removed prior to disposal with proper certificate attached). Contact Rumpke for proper instructions.

Refrigerator
Freezer
Air Conditioner
Collection Program
For Mt. Healthy
residents only.
ALL REFRIGERANT IS RECOVERED
IN COMPLIANCE WITH EPA
GUIDELINES
CALL 931-8840

ACCEPTABLE RECYCLE MATERIALS FOR CURBSIDE PICK-UP

• Newspapers with inserts, magazines, catalogs and telephone books, Paperboard, such as cereal boxes, Junk mail, Computer paper, and other mixed office paper, Corrugated cardboard broken down to 3'x3', Pizza boxes with all grease and food residue removed.

• All colored glass bottles and jars. Please rinse and remove rings and lids. Sorry, no windows, sheet glass, mirrors, light bulbs, drinking glasses or mugs, and oven/cooking glassware

• All plastic bottles and jugs. Please rinse and remove rings and lids.

• Aluminum & Bi-Metal soda, pop, beer, steel food or soup cans are acceptable. Sorry, no pots or pans, coat hangers, or scrap metal.

IF YOUR WEEKLY HOUSEHOLD WASTE OR RECYCLE PICK-UP WAS MISSED, PLEASE CALL 513-931-8840 EXT. 131 TO RESOLVE THE PROBLEM.

Congratulations Mt. Healthy residents! In 2008, you recycled 248 tons of metal, glass, plastic, and paper. Mt. Healthy recycled 96 more tons in 2008 than 2007! Your recycling efforts benefited the environment and the local economy in a big way.

The recycling efforts in Mt. Healthy:

*        Saved 2,391 trees

*        Avoided the need for 29 tons of iron ore, limestone, and coal

*        Conserved enough energy to power 40 average homes for an entire year

 *    Reduced greenhouse equivalent to removing 167 cars from the road for a year.

Recycling reduces pollution so the air we breathe is cleaner, conserves natural resources so we will have them to use in the future, and decreases the amount of waste going to the landfill. Recycling also boosts our local economy by creating 169,000 jobs and $6 billion in annual wages just in the State of Ohio.

On average, each household in Mt. Healthy recycled 154 pounds in 2008. That's a lot of pop cans and newspapers! Don't have a bin? Mt. Healthy makes it easy! Call 931-8840 to request your bin today!