Garbage pickup in the NE, SE, and SW areas of town is
early Friday morning. Pickup in the NW area is
early Wednesday morning. Containers should be placed
on the curb in front of your residence or in the ally
behind your residence, depending on the common practice
on your street. Each household is allowed two 30 gallon
containers (bags or cans) each week for the $14.78 monthly
charge. Additional containers, or larger items such as
chairs, etc., require a tag which can be purchased at
Super Valu, or City Hall for $1.50 each.
The Recycling Center started in 1990 in Barnesville
with the current facility being built in 1992. Below
is a list of those items accepted by the Recycling Center.
Location: 205 Front Street
North
Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays
12:00 noon to 8:00 p.m., Saturdays 8:00 a.m. to 12:00
noon
ITEMS ACCEPTED AND HOW TO PREPARE:
Aluminum Cans
Rinse, flatten. DO NOT MIX WITH TIN CANS.
NO foil, pie tins, lawn chairs, aluminum
doors, or any other aluminum.
Tin/Steel/Bi-Metal Cans
Clean, remove labels, flatten if possible with lids
inside of can.
NO paint cans, pesticide cans, car parts,
or other scrap iron.
Glass Bottles & Jars
Clean, remove caps/lids/rings. Labels OK!
Metal lids go in with steel cans.
Sort by color: clear; brown/yellow; green/blue NO
opaque colored bottles and jars, lightbulbs, window
glass, mirrors, dishes, drinking glasses, mugs, crystal,
corning/pyrex/visionware, TV tubes, leaded glass, chemical/medicine
bottles, test tubes, candle holders, or any other glass
which is not a bottle or jar. These materials will cause
rejection of the entire load.
Plastic #1 & #2 Containers
(# on bottom of bottle)
Clean, remove caps/rings/lids and discard, flatten.
#1 containers (clear/green soda bottles, salad dressings)
#2 containers (narrow-mouth bottles: i.e. milk jugs,
orange juice, detergents, shampoos; wide-mouth containers:
i.e. whip cream, margarine, some cottage cheese, etc.)
NO motor oil bottles, solvent or pesticide
bottles, styrofoam, plastic cups, plastic bags and film,
hard plastic (toys, pails, etc.), syringes, nor any
#3 through #7 plastics.
Newspaper & Phone Directories
Stack in paper grocery bags, colored inserts OK! NO
magazines, cardboard or any other paper mixed with news.
Newspaper must be free of food, paint, fish waste, etc.
Cardboard & Containerboard
Flatten, 3 ft. x 3 ft. maximum size, cut to size.
Corrugated cardboard: clean, non-waxed.
Containerboard: gray/brownboard (food, beverage)
NO pizza boxes or any other food-contaminated
cardboard (i.e., milk, orange juice, raisins, etc.).
NO tinfoil-coated containers (i.e., potato
chips, peanuts, etc.).
Magazines, Junk Mail, Scrap
Paper
Glossy and non-glossy magazines, catalogues, TV guides,
school papers, junk mail, envelopes, birthday and holiday
cards without glitter or foil.
NO plastic bags, plastic cards, books,
spiral notebooks and calendars (unless spiral is removed),
facial tissue, paper plates, paper towels, fast food
containers
The following materials are also accepted at the Recycling
Center. Special fees apply as noted below and are to
be paid at the Recycling Center.
Tires
(without rim)
Fee applies.
Major Appliances
Residential/commercial furnaces, boilers, dehumidifiers,
water heaters, air conditioners, clothes washers/dryers,
dishwasher, freezers, refrigerators, stoves and microwave
ovens. Fee applies
Yard Waste
The compost bin is located at the Recycling Center for
your use. The branch burn pile is located by the lagoons
for you to dispose of sticks and branches. This area
is open daily for your convenience. PLEASE no garbage,
furniture, carpet, etc. at the brush pile.
The city does not have a place for disposal of cement
or other demolition. Dumping of such materials is illegal
and subject to fines.
Clay County has a variety of recycling programs that
may be of interest to Barnesville residents. Click on
the programs below for more information.
For more information on recycling, compost or any other
hazardous waste issues, please contact the City Hall
at 218 354-2292.
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