Trash and Recycling Information

Trash pickup is Friday.

Recycling day is Wednesday.

Dumpsters are brought in periodically.

Trash & Recycling:

Please put your trash and recycling out no earlier than 6pm the evening before collection day. It should be put out by 6am. Please remove trash cans and recycle containers before the end of pick-up day. If you let your trash cans sit out beyond pick up day, the board may have the property manager remove them.

• New Year's Day
• Memorial Day
• Independence Day
• Labor Day
• Thanksgiving Day
• Christmas Day

Recycling will be picked up the following week on the regular recycling day. Trash will be picked up the next weekday.

Amount allowed
There is no limit on the numbers of bags or cans that can be placed out for collection. Each item must weigh no more than 40 pounds. Please be sure trash is put out in trash cans with tight fitting lids or sturdy plastic bags that are closed securely to discourage animals from being able to tear them apart.

Prohibited items
Liquids such as wet paint and motor oil
Hazardous, toxic, or flammable materials
Bulk items (such as large appliances, carpets, mattresses, or large pieces of furniture)
Car parts - tires, wheels or batteries

For more information go to www.co.ho.md.us/DPW/Trash_Collection.htm

Trash reduction
Please consider donating useable items to reduce your trash. A Salvation Army donation center it just down the road at the crossing of Guilford Road and Route 1. They are very happy for everything you drop off and it is a tax deductible donation. Or consider joining your local email group of www.freecycle.org

Recycling

- Yard Waste is accepted from April 1 to December 31
- Curbside Holiday Tree Recycling January 2nd through January 22nd

County Recycling Program participants may place their recyclables out all together. Metal cans, plastic bottles, and glass bottles and jars can be combined with mixed paper and cardboard, without any need for bagging or binding the paper separately. One bin or see-through bag is all you need for your recyclable containers, mixed paper and cardboard. Yardwaste is still placed out separately.

Cardboard
Cardboard recyclables must be clean. Remove food, plastic liners, waxed paper or styrofoam from inside boxes. WAXED CARDBOARD can't be recycled - no recycler wants it. No pizza boxes. Put them in the trash, not with your recyclables. Cut boxes to fit into the 2 feet x 4 feet x 6 inch opening in the recycling truck (i.e., the size of a large bath towel and thickness of a pillow).

Glass
Empty contents. Rinse lightly. Remove lids. Label and ring may stay on. NO window glass, drinking glasses, mirrors, ceramics, crystal fluorescent or light bulbs, Corning Ware or Pyrex.

Metal cans
Empty contents. Rinse lightly. Crush if possible. Label may stay on, but paper labels are recyclable! Remove lids and put in trash. (OUCH! Lids cut our friends at the Recycling Center.) YES to aluminum, steel & tin cans. This includes drink, food (even pet food!)and ALL EMPTY aerosol cans. NO to foil or pie trays, propane cylinders, siding, beach or lawn chairs, pots, pans or other scrap metal, motor oil or other automotive fluid cans.

Mixed paper
Paper recyclables must be clean. Remove food, plastic liners, waxed paper or styrofoam from inside boxes. Your pizza boxes, egg cartons, paper plates and paper towels can't be recycled. They are contaminated and the Recycling Program cannot accept these items. Put them in the trash...not your recycling bag! YES to newspapers & inserts, phone books, junk mail (even window envelopes), CLEAN and EMPTY food & snack boxes, text books, greeting cards, gift wrap, mail order catalogs, magazines, paper towel & toilet paper tubes, household paperboard boxes. NO to food contaminated boxes such as pizza boxes or egg cartons, plastic bags or wrappers, or other waxed paper or boxes, styrofoam, paper towels, tissues paper plates or cups, foil type gift wrap.

Plastics
Empty contents. Rinse lightly. Remove lids and crush. Label and ring may stay on. REUSE or RECYCLE extra plastic bags at a nearby grocery store that recycles plastics bags! YES to plastic bottles, milk jugs, soda bottles, laundry detergent, salad dressing, cooking oil, shampoo, cleaning bottles (any containers with "shoulders"). NO to margarine or yogurt containers, plastic trays, toys, cups, flower pots, styrofoam, extra plastic bags, motor oil, pesticide or solvent bottles.

Yard waste
There is a 40 pound weight limit for each item - a bag of wet grass or leaves can be very heavy. This is the main reason why bags of grass or leaves may be left behind. YES to leaves, grass, small brush, YES to small limbs and sticks bundled in 4foot lengths, hedge clippings, dry seed pods (such as pine cones or sour gum balls). NO to dirt, sod, stones, fruit or vegetables, man made or miscellaneous materials mixed with yard trimmings (such as paper, plastic, glass, stones, metal wire or pottery). A separate trash type truck picks up yard waste recyclables. Place in paper or plastic bags. Leave bags open or use open containers such as trash cans, etc. (No cardboard boxes as containers) and remove lids, or tie or bundle light brush with string.

To reduce your yard waste we suggest using a mulch lawn mower which eliminates the need to dump grass clippings.

For more information go to www.co.ho.md.us/DPW/recycling

Or call (410) 313-SORT Trash & Recycling Action Hotline

Dumptsters

The association arranges for large dumpsters to be dropped off and picked up over a weekend twice each year. These dumpsters are for large/bulk items that are not allowed in regular trash pickups. These dumpsters should not be used for items which can be put out on regular trash days or recycled.