Solid Waste -
What's New
For every additional pound of material Mesa
residents recycle over last year’s total between
July 1, 2008, and June 30, 2009, a direct
contribution will be made to the library for the
purchase of new library material up to a grand total
$25,000. For more information visit
Recycle for
Reading.
Learn about the
digital tv transition coming February 17, 2009
and how it will impact your current household
television sets.
Solid Waste Customer Service Representatives are
now available by phone Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.-5:30
p.m. Walk-in office hours will continue to
remain Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Due to a high level of demand for paint through
the Paint Reuse Program, all existing inventory has
been depleted. Additional buckets of paint are
expected to be available after the October Household
Hazardous Waste Collection Event.
New
Federal prescription drug disposal guidelines
urge residents to dispose of any unused, unneeded or
expired medication in the trash or take them to a
pharmaceutical take-back location for safe disposal.
Residents are being asked to avoid throwing them
down the drain as the drugs may pass through sewage
treatment plants and septic tanks into surface
waters, soils, and the groundwater.
Residents can learn about barrel
basics to ensure collection of their black, blue and
green barrels.
Barrel Basics
video (Windows Media)
Plastic bottles and metal food
cans are now being accepted at the East Mesa Service
Center recycling drop-off location. These
items, along with glass bottles, may be dropped off
in any blue barrel located at the site. Visit
drop-off recycling for more information.
In addition to the Salt River
Landfill, residents may now take their large loads
of trash to the Waste Management San Tan Transfer
Station as part of our
Homeowner Landfill
Use Program.
Applications for the
Clean Sweep/Green Sweep
program are now available.
Events will be scheduled on a first come, first
serve basis; subject to container availability.
For more information, call (480) 644-4791.
Residents can now learn about Mesa's recycling
programs by watching the Mesa Recycles video online.
Mesa Recycles
video (Windows Media)
Plastic bag
public service announcement (Windows Media)
Are you filling up your 90-gallon black barrel on a weekly basis? If not,
then consider switching to a 60-gallon black barrel instead. Designed for
customers who do not produce a significant amount of trash, utilizing this
barrel size can reduce your monthly trash bill from $22.66 to $20.22, generating
a $2.44 monthly savings.
Blue Barrel Flyer (.pdf 1
page) - List of acceptable blue barrel items which is suitable for posting on
refrigerator or near recycling container.
For the safety of our drivers and other recycling personnel, Mesa residents
are aked to NOT place propane or oxygen tanks into their blue barrels.
Placing these items into the blue barrels increases the risk of potential
explosions and fire during the recycling process which includes compaction of
the collected materials. Residents should bring these items to our
Household
Hazardous Waste Collection Events for proper disposal. (Tanks do not
need to be empty)
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