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Departments Mayor's Office Youth Advisory Comm. Clerk-Treasurer City Court City Council Police Dept WPD Crime Watch EMA Animal Control Fire Dept Building Dept Economic Development Parks Dept Law Dept Engineering Dept Street Dept Recycling Program Living Green Utilities Contact Us Advanced Search Sitemap Advertise With Us	Recycling Program Why does Whiting Recycle? Whiting recycles because it benefits the environment and it reduces the cost of solid waste disposal. You can learn how recycling improves the environment by visiting the City's "Green Initiative" web pages and see how recycling reduces the cost to dispose of the City's trash and waste by reviewing our "Recycling Saves Report". Reducing the cost of disposal not only saves property tax dollars, but in Whiting, it has been the primary reason why a monthly trash pick-up fee has not been instituted to date. YOUR RECYCLING EFFORTS ARE SAVING YOU MONEY!! GO GREEN: Read about Whiting's Green Initiatives by clicking here. View a printable Recycling Program Flyer by Clicking Here Watch a video explaining the "Single Stream Recycling" process here. View Obsolete Electronics Recycling Guidelines by clicking here. Whiting was named winner of the 2007 IACT Community Achievement Award for its Alley Recycling Program. Download a video about the Recycling Program via the following links: High Quality (7.8 MB) \| Low (2.4 MB) View the City's 'Trash & Recycling Survey' tabulated results by clicking here. The 3 R's - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Video Clean Up - Living Green in Whiting: Video WHITING RECYCLING PROGRAM GENERAL INFORMATION Please do not place recyclables in plastic grocery bags or plastic garbage bags. Place all recyclables loose in your 65-gallon recycling cart. NEWSPAPER Any inserts found in newspaper are acceptable. Your Option: Place in 65-gallon recycling cart loose or into brown paper grocery bags. MAGAZINES, CATALOGS, JUNK MAIL, and TELEPHONE BOOKS Your Option: Place in 65-gallon recycling cart loose or into brown paper grocery bags. COMPUTER PAPER Your Option: Place in 65-gallon recycling cart loose or into brown paper grocery bags. CORRUGATED CARDBOARD Remove all Styrofoam and packing material - (garbage) Flatten boxes and place in or beside 65-gallon recycling cart CHIPBOARD/CARDBOARD EXAMPLES: CARDBOARD BEVERAGE CONTAINERS, POP AND BEER CASES, CEREAL AND DRY FOOD BOXES, PAPER TOWEL AND TOILET TISSUE CORES, FROZEN FOOD AND GIFT BOXES Remove all Styrofoam and packing material - (garbage) Flatten cardboard and place loose in 65-gallon recycling cart. TIN and ALUMINUM CANS EXAMPLES: ALUMINUM, BIMETAL, AND TIN CANS, ALUMINUM PIE TINS Labels can be left on Rinse clean to avoid an odor problem Flatten to save space Place loose in 65-gallon recycling cart PLASTIC CONTAINERS EXAMPLES: TWO-LITER SOFT DRINK AND GATORADE BOTTLES, MILK JUGS Remove caps Labels can be left on Rinse clean to avoid an odor problem Flatten to save space Place loose in 65-gallon recycling cart GLASS BOTTLES EXAMPLES: CLEAR, BROWN, AND GREEN GLASS BOTTLES AND JARS Remove caps Labels can be left on Rinse clean to avoid an odor problem Place loose in 65-gallon recycling cart YARD WASTE Yard bag pick-up for the entire City of Whiting will be conducted weekly. Grass and leaves to be picked up, free of garbage and litter, must be placed in the alley in biodegradable yard bags. Yard bags of grass and leaves will be collected by a truck. Plastic garbage bags may not be used as an alternative to biodegradable yard bags. Plastic garbage bags don' t compost and at times are *difficult to distinguish from garbage. Loose piles of unbagged grass or leaves will not be picked up* by the City. Residents placing loose piles of grass or leaves in the alley, garbage carts, or recycling carts will be notified. HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE** For the schedule for Household Hazardous Waste pick up points for the 2013 please refer to this link: http://www.lcswmd.com/householdhazardouswaste.htm The City of Whiting's recycling program is a single stream collection system. This system allows the City to pick up co-mingled recyclables with a designated packer.
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