Spotlight
CFL RECYCLING
The City of Kirkwood accepts Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs (CFLs) for recycling at the Finance window at City Hall, 139 S. Kirkwood Road, during regular business hours (Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm). Residents will receive a new CFL bulb for every used CFL that is turned in for recycling. CFLs should NOT be placed in recycling carts or in regular trash bags for collection. CFLs are hazardous waste. Thank you!
STYROFOAM RECYCLING NO LONGER COLLECTED AT SCHEIDEGGER RECYCLING DEPOSITORY
The City will no longer collect or accept Styrofoam at the Scheidegger Recycling Depository, 350 S. Taylor Avenue,
effective immediately. Midwest Recycles, the City's Styrofoam hauler, informed the City that it will no longer be able to haul Styrofoam from the Depository and will remove its collection trailer on December 30. This is the decision of the recycler. However, the City is extremely disappointed and will work to find an alternative method to recycle this material.clean. Some oily foods may contaminate the containers and make them ineligible for recycling. Please place those with your regular waste for trash pick-up. "Peanuts" or similar small packing materials can and should be bagged.
KIRKWOOD CITIZENS MAKE CURBSIDE RECYCLING A HUGE SUCCESS
Curbside recycling came to Kirkwood in January 2011, and so far, thanks to the participation of the great citizens of this City, it has been an incredible success.
A recent story on the Kirkwood Patch Website told the whole story.
For a list of what can be placed in your recycling cart, visit us at KIRKWOOD RECYCLES!!
Public Works
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The City has NEW recycling trucks with automated (robotic) arms. For the trucks to operate correctly, however, there needs to be an area of clearance of three (3) feet around the carts in all directions. We ask for your assistance with the following:
Please Practice Correct Cart Placement:
~ Do not place items on top of the cart.
~ Do not lean items (bags or cardboard) against the cart or place items in front of the cart (between the cart and the street).
~ Carts need to have three (3) feet of clearance from all obstructions—other carts, trash bags, mail boxes, shrubs, light posts, utility poles, and parked cars.
~ Since collection is automated, the cart handle and wheels should face the house.
For additional information, you can download these cart-placement diagrams (in a PDF). [Please note that these diagrams say to allow "four feet" in clearance, but in the City of Kirkwood, we require only three feet.]
Parking on Collection Days:
~ These trucks are WIDE. If you live on a narrow street, please do not park directly across from another car. The trucks may not be able to get through.
Need More Information about Recycling? Check out this Website: RECYCLING BECOMES ME
Styrofoam No Longer Collected at Scheidegger Depository
The City will no longer collect or accept Styrofoam at the Scheidegger Recycling Depository, 350 S. Taylor Avenue, effective immediately. Midwest Recycles, the City's Styrofoam hauler, informed the City that it will no longer be able to haul Styrofoam from the Depository and will remove its collection trailer on December 30. This is the decision of the recycler. However, the City is extremely disappointed and will work to find an alternative method to recycle this material.
RECYCLING TOPICS:
The City of Kirkwood added curbside recycling to its list of sanitation services on January 3. To accomplish this important launch, the City had to change sanitation routes. All customers now have all of their sanitation - all trash, recycling, and yard waste - picked up on just one day per week. For your convenience, an Excel spreadsheet is provided here with all sanitation addresses and their assigned pick-up day. You can open the file and search for your address here:
Sanitation Addresses - Excel Spreadsheet. This is a PDFs (Portable Document Format) and may take a moment to open. You may also be able to use this
Sanitation Route Map to help determine your sanitation collection day.
On weeks when there is an observed City holiday (see list below), all sanitation routes will be delayed by one day. For example, if a holiday falls on a Monday, ALL routes will be delayed by one day, so Monday routes get picked up on Tuesday, Tuesday routes get picked up on Wednesday, etc. If the holiday falls on a Thursday, only Thursday and Friday routes get delayed by one day. FRIDAYS: If your regular collection day is Friday and there is an observed holiday that week, your sanitation will ALWAYS be collected on Saturday.
THE FOLLOWING DATES ARE SANITATION HOLIDAYS IN 2012:
January 16 (Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday)
May 28 (Memorial Day)
July 4 (Independence Day)
September 3 (Labor Day)
November 22 (Thanksgiving)
The City of Kirkwood led the way with recycling in the metro area in 1971 when the first St. Louis-area recycling depository was opened here—the Francis Scheidegger Recycling Depository, at 350 S. Taylor.
PLEASE NOTE: The Recycling Depository is open 24 hours per day, seven days per week.
What is accepted at the Recycling Depository?
- Telephone books
- Newspapers
- Aluminum cans
- Glass bottles, with metal removed
- Corrugated Cardboard
- Mixed paper (junk mail, boxboard, office paper, computer paper)
- Catalogs & magazines (less than 1 1/2” in thickness)
- Steel (tin) cans
- Plastic Containers: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, & #7. Recyclable plastic containers usually are marked on the bottom, indicating the type of plastic inside the universal, triangular recycling symbol. Plastic containers for beverages, food, personal care, household products, and many other non-hazardous materials can now be recycled. See below what is not accepted.
- Tupperware is acceptable IF it has the proper plastic recyclable # on it.
- Cell phones
- Textiles (clothing, sheets, draperies, linens)
What is NOT accepted at the Recycling Depository?
- Styrofoam, or polystyrene foam, products (effective December 30, 2011).
- To avoid pollution and for health reasons, the depository cannot accept containers that held antifreeze or motor oil
- Disposable diapers, frozen food bags, or hazardous materials are not accepted
- No metal pipes, siding, any construction materials, or sheeting will be accepted.
- No trash, furniture, appliances, rugs, mattresses, sofas, yard waste / brush, tree limbs, wood, concrete, bricks, tires, batteries, oil, or scrap metal will be accepted.
How Effective is Recycling?
The objective of recycling is to divert as much trash and refuse as possible from landfills. Each month, the City compiles a
Year-to-Date Tonnage Report (below) on the materials that have been diverted from landfills by maintaining the Francis Scheidegger Recycling Depository. At the end of the year, we compile and post an End-of-Year Report (below).
Year-to-Date Recycling Totals 2011
End-of-Year Recycling Tonnage Report for 2010