Remember to recycle this holiday season

’Tis the season for out with the old, in with the new … but don’t just throw out the old! As holiday parties conclude and Christmas gifts are opened, please keep in mind all of the opportunities for recycling offered by the City of Johnson City.

• After your holiday baking and parties are complete, please be sure to recycle food and beverage packaging: paperboard (most all cardboard food packaging such as cracker and cereal boxes), aluminum cans, all plastic containers marked with a 1 or 2 on the bottom, as well as clear, brown and green glass.
• While all types of paper are accepted, avoid putting wrapping paper in the recycle bin. A lot of it is foil-backed, which contaminates acceptable paper products.
• Gift boxes and other cardboard are ideal for recycling – just remove any plastic packaging such as that used for many toys.
• Set aside any old electronics that have been replaced by new gifts and bring to the Solid Waste Services Complex located at 91 New St. Accepted items include computers, laptops, electronic tablets, printers, monitors, cameras, microwaves and televisions (up to 35-inch).
• Live Christmas trees will be collected for the City’s tREeCYCLE event until Jan. 20. Simply place trees at your curb or deliver to the Winged Deer Park boat ramp parking lot. (Trees are no longer accepted at the Liberty Bell Complex.) Trees will be recycled into fish habitats or will be used as mulch for industrial boiler fuels.
• If curbside recycling service is not available to you, please deliver your recyclables to one of the City’s drop-off locations: Solid Waste Services, 91 New St.; behind Sonic Drive-In, 3302 W. Market St.; Kroger rear parking lot, Browns Mill Road; Winged Deer Park boat ramp parking lot, Carroll Creek Road; and adjacent to the Johnson City Power Board, Boones Creek Road.

Johnson City’s recycling program will be adding household batteries, fluorescent bulbs and tubes, and used cooking oil to its accepted items in late January. More information will be available soon!

For more information about Johnson City’s recycling efforts, please call Eva Hunter at 979-6318.