Trim your Waste-Line Program
To help you reduce your contribution to the waste-stream, we offer a missed recyclables pick-up program.
Monroe County is currently not able to recycle every product with recycling potential. The only plastics the county can currently recycle are #1 and #2.
Many well-meaning folks include other plastic items in their curbside ‘blue bins’ believing they will be recycled, when in fact what happens is they are later culled and sent to the landfill. Many food packages, for example, are #5.
Fortunately, curbside is not the only recycling option. Several of the items our county doesn’t accept for recycling can be recycled elsewhere, but doing so can require taking them to specialized re-users, finding recyclers outside the county, and sometimes recycling in bulk.
Fundamental Green offers a home pickup of many of these items that are not on our county's recycling lists. Items like:
Batteries (regular and rechargeables);
Computers and other personal electronics;
Christmas lights.
Call for rates.