North Fork Recycling How it works

How it works

CURBSIDE PROGRAM

After North Fork Recycling receives a sign up form by email or paper version and you initiate payment with us we will begin to collect your recycling at the curb. The collection day will be the 3rd Saturday each month please have your items out by 8:00 am.

SORTING FOR CURBSIDE PICKUP

Please sort your recycling into these separate containers or bags at the curb.

Paper Products:

Newspapers, magazines, catalogs, junk mail(please open and remove any sticky return address labels or plastics), paperback books, white or pastel office quality paper, and envelopes. Shredded paper is also accepted.

In another bag Single-layer paper/chipboard: such as flattened cereal/cracker boxes (liners removed please), 6pk/12pk beer or soda containers, paper egg cartons, and toilet/paper towel tubes, fluorescent-colored paper, gift wrap, greeting cards, construction paper and poster board.

Please remove and discard plastic sleeves,wraps, and/or bags.

We do not collect the following:
christmas wrap, plastic newspaper delivery bags, carbons, ream wrappers, photographs, tissues or paper towels, milk/juice cartons, paper plates/ food soiled paper, laundry/dish detergent boxes or waxy paperboard.
Phone books are okay.
Please remove plastic wrap and magnets. Stack separately or place on top of your paper mix.
Corrugated Cardboard:

Just non-glossy, unwaxed, corrugated cardboard. Please flatten all boxes and discard packing materials. Keep brown paper sacks with your boxes (not with newspapers). Unflattened boxes will not be collected.

Cardboard can be stacked and your other cotainers set on top to keep it from blowing away.

Plastics #1, #2, #5 :

Solid plastic containers with the #1 or #2 located inside the recycling triangle on the bottom of the container, steel cans (this includes metal lids from jars). Please remove and discard all plastic lids. Rinse and Drain food containers. Completely drain non food containers.

We do not collect the following: #3,#4,#6,#7 plastics, NO styrofoam. NO plastic bags. (Check with local grocery stores for plastic bag collection/recycling)

Steel / Tin cans:

Pleas clean out

Glass Jars and Bottles:

All colors of jars and bottles, emptied, rinsed and with lids discarded. (Steel lids can be recycled with cans)

If you are willing we ask that you sort your glass into two different bags/containers: colored and clear.

We do not collect the following:
glass that is not a bottle, jar, or jug. We do not take pyrex, ceramics, drinking glasses, vases, plate glass, light bulbs, corks, foil, etc.

Aluminum Cans:

Beer and soda cans in one bag, pet food cans, pie tins, foil and other aluminum in a different bag.

We do not take steel scrap.

Containers

Participants may use any containers that suit their needs, making sure that those containers are in good repair and do not collect water. Brown paper bags, plastic grocery bags, trash bags and small to mid-sized packing type boxes all make good recycling containers. Wheeled trash cans and plastic totes are also acceptable. Please make sure that your containers weigh no more than 40 pounds with material included, as we must lift these containers overhead to empty them into our trailer. We may not be able to collect material in overweight or otherwise unmanageable containers.

DROP OFF SERVICE

After you set up an account via email or paper sign-up form and we receive your set-up and first months payment we will give you the location of the drop off trailer. Please do not disclose this information to anyone not in your household. The success of the program is based on an honor system.

You may start bringing your recycling to the trailer any time you like 7 days a week during daylight hours.

Sorting for drop off site (Please read the curbside guidelines above for what we take as well)

Put items into appropriate containers at the site:

Plastics #1 #2 #5 only please

Tin cans (no aluminum pet food cans. Use a maganet if not sure.. maganet won't stick to aluminum)

Glass (please sort it into colored and clear)

Mixed paper = all junk mail, office paper, newsprint, magazines, etc.

Pile your flattened corrugated cardboard in the trailer (Also brown paper bags and kraft paper go here)

Aluminum cans

Other household aluminum (foil, pet food cans, baking pans)

Phone books

Paper-board = cereal boxes and the like

**PLEASE DON'T LEAVE UNSORTED BOXES OR BAGS OF RECYCLING AT THE SITE** THANKS

More info for both drop off and curb side

Here is my PLEASE do list:
     Remove all lids, corks, caps etc... (a sealed empty glass container can become very dangerous)
     Break down your own boxes (Help keep our costs low)
     Try to keep stuff dry and somewhat clean
     recycle only plastic that has a # on it (no toys or other items with no recycle #)
     recycle only food and beverage container glass (no dishes, windows etc...)
     recycle only recyclable items (no trash... at this time #3-#7 plastic are trash)
     Separate aluminum soda and beer cans from pet food, foil, pie tins etc
     If not certain if item can be recycled lean toward tossing it... (this will likely happen anyway, no need to transport it around)

*Please help us by flattening as much material as you can... plastic gallon jugs in particular!!!

Please don't bring recycling from your work beyond personal items. Please don't "share" or "split" the services with more than one household. If for some reason you know your household to produce more than "normal" amounts of recycling (like if you have more than 5 persons or run a business from your home) let us know so we can set up a custom account.

Why so much sorting? We at NFR strive to make sure 100% of your efforts end up actually being recycled. Mixing materials lessens their value and up to %30 can end up in the landfill. Also, glass shards or other contaminants can damage expensive equipment at processing mills. The trash company Waste Management in Montrose and Grand Junction actually just crush up all glass recycled with them and put it in the landfill! We make sure our glass and other recyclables go to a facility that ships the materials off to make new products!