Yay! The
Richland County Recycling webpage has finally been updated with the new items that are accepted for curbside recycling. Unlike the
Twitter announcement last year, it doesn't mention aluminum pie pans. But the rest of the items seem clear. They're even taking glass in the curbside bins now, wow.
Oh... Just found
this news article from November on The State website:
Early next year, Richland County will begin to phase in larger recycling rollcarts, expecting to collect more reusable materials such as plastic, cans and glass.
To start with, only two areas of unincorporated Richland County will see changes in service.
By 2015, however, all of the county’s 88,000 customers will convert from 18-gallon bins to full-sized recycling rollcarts.
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Starting in February, service will change significantly for about 19,000 homes in the north-central part of the county and in the southeast:
• Yard waste, such as leaves and twigs, will have to be put in containers.
• Materials to be recycled will be picked up every two weeks, instead of each week.
I wonder what they mean about putting yard waste in containers. When I rake leaves, the pile gets pretty large, even when it is pressed down to compact it. I hope that bagging leaves won't be mandatory; that seems to me to be a waste of plastic. I've always liked how the trucks use a big suction tube to take in piles of leaves; although I've also seen workers with pitchforks sometimes.
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