In the Recycle bins  
Every community collects different commodities based on the ability to
find local markets for that item. When
people move to a new location, the rules may seem to be arbitrary.
Here are the items that Rutherford County is able to place with a
company that can use them and how those companies would like them prepared.
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Glass
Food-grade container glass bottles can be recycled
Clear,
brown and green glass are
collected in separate sections
Do NOT include
lids, window glass, mirrors, aquarium glass, cookware (Corning Pyrex, coffee pots, etc.)
vases, or drinking glasses.
Do Not put plastic bags or
cardboard 6-pack carriers in the bins.
To Prepare Glass:
Please rinse jars and remove lids. Throw
away the plastic lids. Metal lids can be recycled with steel cans. It is not
necessary to remove labels.
Please sort your bottles by color: clear, brown and
green. If
the jar is not clear or brown, put it with the green glass.
Blue glass goes with green.
Only glass that was a container can be recycled.
No other glass,
such as glass cookware, drinking glasses, mirrors, pottery and window glass will
make the load unacceptable. Put ONLY glass in the bin. Plastic bags should be
recycled in the store and cardboard carriers recycle with corrugated.
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If the glass is not completely clear,
or if it is only partly
brown,
put it with the green glass.
Blue glass is sorted with green.
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enlarge)
This is a good load of brown glass.
There are no bags or lids
and it contains ONLY brown glass.
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Corrugated Cardboard
Please help
with flattening your boxes this saves space for everyone
also taxes
and reduce air pollution when only full loads are picked up.
What Goes: Brown
cardboard boxes; brown paper bags; six-pack cartons.
What Doesn’t: Styrofoam;
cereal boxes, waxed boxes, plastic wrap, plastic bags, magazines and junk mail.
How to prepare cardboard: Please break down
your boxes before putting them in the container. Cardboard should be clean and
dry. Most cereal and cracker boxes are not corrugated. An easy test is to
tear the material. If it is brown (as are most beverage carriers) it can go. If
it is gray, it cannot. (This is previously recycled material; the gray color is
the residue of ink.) The gray material can be included only with mixed paper.
Brown paper bags can be included with cardboard at the Kroger locations.
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This load of Corrugated cardboard
has been sorted and broken
down.
Newspaper
What Goes: Everything
that comes with your newspaper – Except for the plastic bag – can
be recycled with the paper. Slicks and inserts may be included.
What Doesn’t: Anything
that is not a newspaper cannot be included. No magazines, cereal boxes,
cardboard or junk mail should be recycled with newspaper. Also, plastic or paper
bags, string, or tape used to package the paper must be removed.
Note: These requirements apply to newspaper recycled in the
Southeast Paper containers located at schools as well.
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This newspaper bin at
South Tennessee Boulevard
needs to be sorted
Aluminum
Please help
with flattening your Cans this saves space for everyone
also taxes
and reduce air pollution when only full loads are picked up.
What Goes: Aluminum soft
drink cans, aluminum beer cans, clean aluminum foil or baking pans.
What Doesn’t: Do not put
anything else in the container. Aluminum siding, unwashed food wrappers, plastic
bags and steel cans should not be included.
How to Prepare:
Please rinse and flatten cans. If a magnet won’t
stick to a food can, it is probably aluminum. Clean aluminum foil and disposable
aluminum baking pans may be recycled with the cans. (These items can be cleaned
without using excess water by leaving them in the sink while you are doing other
things.) Please do not put plastic or paper bags in the bin.
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enlarge)
This load contains only aluminum cans.
Notice that most have
been flattened.
Flat cans not only save room
in the recycling bin, it makes a
smaller load to carry to your
recycling center.
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Plastic
Please
help with flattening your Plastic Bottles this saves space for everyone
also taxes
and reduce air pollution when only full loads are picked up.
What Goes: Any
#1 or any #2 plastic container with a neck may be recycled. (except Anti-freeze,
Petroleum and Hazardous containers.)
What Goes: This includes milk jugs, soda bottles, cleaning and personal care
product containers made from #1 or #2 plastic.
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Plastic containers that may be recycled
What Doesn’t:
No other plastic may be included. Throw
away oil cans, antifreeze cans and other automotive fluid containers. Sour
cream containers, yogurt cups, food storage containers are not #1 or #2
plastics. They cannot be recycled with plastic. Some whipped topping
containers are marked #2, but they do not have a neck. If you cannot reuse it,
throw it away. Plastic bags, toys, Styrofoam, dome covers, and plastic cups
are more examples of what can't be recycled.
Hints: To find the grade
of plastic, turn the object over and look for a number in the chasing arrows.
How to Prepare Plastic:
Only clean plastic with the #1 or #2 "chasing arrow designation can go in
the plastic recycling bin. In addition the container must have a neck (whipped
topping containers do not) and should not have contained a product for your
car (motor oil, transmission fluid, etc. Plastic that contained cleaning
material and personal care items are fine, if they are #1 or #2. Do not
put anything else in the container.
Plastic Bags
Most grocery
store bags, Dry cleaner bags, produce bags, lightweight
bags that newspapers come in and any bag that is the same weight or density as
these.
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Plastic Bags:
Most grocery stores collect used grocery bags inside their buildings.
Kroger’s will accept bags and any bag that is the same weight or density. That includes their produce bags, dry cleaner bags and lightweight
bags that newspapers come in. They do not want the heavier grades of plastic.
It is as heavy as a disposable diaper or has a handle, throw it away. Please
be sure the bag is empty, clean and dry. Plastic bags left in the recycling
bin will be thrown away. Plastic bags recycled in the store are recycled
to make plastic wood.
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This
picture was taken of the plastic Recycle Bin at South Tennessee Blvd.
This is a poor load because of the mix of items
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We
all can do better!
When we
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Steel ("Tin") Cans
Please help
with flattening your Cans this saves space for everyone
also taxes
and reduce air pollution when only full loads are picked up.
What Goes: Clean,
empty cans. Cans that contained soup, vegetables, fruit, food for people or for
pets. Empty aerosol cans are recyclable, too. If a magnet sticks to a can, it
goes in here. Empty paint cans are recyclable here. You do not have to
remove labels.
What Doesn’t:
Do not put aluminum, coat hangers and scrap
metal in here. Do not put plastic bags in the container.
How to prepare: Please rinse
your cans. (Leave them in the sink while you are working and you won’t use
extra water.) You do not have to remove the label. If you remove the top and
bottom of the can and flatten it with them inside, you will have less to carry.
You can include metal lids from glass jars and the top of frozen juice
containers. If you not sure, see if a magnet will stick to it.
A clean load of steel
cans! Notice, some have been flattened
and there are no plastic or paper bags present.
No material except for steel can be seen here.
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Other Paper:
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All
mixed paper
MTSU, Greenland Drive
Recycle Center. Put white paper in a box outside of bin students monitor this
site and keep this for a all white paper collection. Mixed Paper includes colored paper, file folders, junk mail, and cereal
boxes, to name a few.
Should go in the bin marked Mix
paper. Save
magazines an put them in the bin marked for them. Save newspapers and put them
in the bin marked for it.
BFI has a mixed paper collection at their Middle Point Landfill.
Mixed Paper includes colored paper, file folders, junk mail, and cereal
boxes, to name a few.
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Magazines
are collected by Recycle Rutherford volunteers the
fifth Sat.
of the Months that have one like Nov. 30,2002
at the Farmers
Market near Cannonsburg. See The
Calendar for dates also
there are bins at MTSU and some schools.
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Newspapers
are collected at schools
are collected at schools,
MTSU and County Convenience centers in bins
marked
for it. Everything
that comes with the newspaper, except the plastic bag, is included in the
collection.
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Scrap Metal
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Scrap Metal The
Convenience Centers in Rutherford County will recycle this material.
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Metal
and Appliances:
Bellow are locations that will accept appliances, scrap metal,
non-ferrous (copper, aluminum, lead, and brass).
Also, Jerry Pelham will accept
old cars. All locations ask that compressors be removed.
Locations:
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Jerry Pelham
Iron and Metal, 1572 Mt. Herman Road, Murfreesboro, Phone 893-8731
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Clark Iron
and Metal, 217 Hilliard Drive, Murfreesboro, Phone 893-7281
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Mid Tenn
Metal Exchange, 118 South Rutherford, Murfreesboro, Phone 848-1727
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Automotive
Products
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Automotive
Products:
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Wood for
mulch
Branches and
limbs pruned from trees, grass, leaves, and christmas trees also
Free mulch
for all who want it
In the city limits of Murfreesboro
The city of Murfreesboro will pick-up Branches and limbs pruned from trees
also Grass, Leaves and Christmas Trees Without all decorations and lights. If
you live in the city limits.
Mulching and Composting helps divert useful items from going to the landfill.
Here is what you need to know about the city's pick-up of wood. Things the
trucks won't pick-up include limbs that have been cut by a professional tree
surgeon. Nor do they pick-up woods that has bin used in construction or fencing
which contains chemicals hazardous to plants, or wood that may have nails or
metals mixed in that might damage there equipment. Brush piles shouldn't be left
on the street and keep it away from cars, utility poles, fire hydrants and other
items that prevent the knuckle boom from grabbing up your pile and putting it
into the truck. No trees larger than 22 inches in diameter and no longer than 6
feet long.
The city's mulching operation is located on Old Nashville Highway in front of
the general Bragg parking area of the greenway. You can pick-up free mulch
24 hours a day 7 days a week. You can put it in trash bags and haul it off in
the back of your car or load up a truck or trailer full it there for you to take
for free.
Come and get it!
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