Single Stream Recycling in Baltimore County!

Beginning February 1, 2010 Baltimore County will collect single-stream recycling!  This means that you no longer need to sort items, everything goes in one bin, and that single container of everything will be collected weekly.  If you had been avoiding recylcing before now worried about sorting or you did not like to wait two weeks letting your cans and bottles pile up, your worry is over.  Simple recycling is here! 

In addition to the switch to weekly, single-stream service, Baltimore County will also be accepting a greater number of items for recycling.  Number 5 plastics, most yogurt and cream cheese containers, will now be accepted.  If you have a neighbor or two who still set their carboard out on trash day, please use this change in service as an opportunity to encourage them to begin recycling.  It is one of the simplest things that we can all do to save enegy and tax dollars. 

Keeping our community clean and reducing, reusing, and recycling the waste we generate is key to being a good neighbor and critical to living green.  Below are some resources for helping you do just that!

Baltimore County Trash and Recycling Collection - find your collection schedule, who to contact about problems with your trash and recycling collection.

Reuse Directory (PDF) - connects you with nonprofits where you can donate unwanted items for re-use.

Habitat for Humanity ReStore - accepts donated building materials including functional appliances, doors, windows, lighting, cabinets, and much more.

Freecycle Dundalk - Dundalk has its own FreeCycle community.  People can join this web-based community reuse program to offer everyday items no longer in use (but still functioning/useful) and to accept items from others in the community as they are offered. 

Baltimore County Electronics Recycling:

You can take items like TVs, VCRs, cell phones, stereos, computers, printers, and cables to 3 different locations in Baltimore County:

Eastern Sanitary Landfill Solid Waste Management Facility, located off the 11400 block of Pulaski Highway (Monday-Saturday, 7:30am - 3:30pm)

Baltimore County Resource Recovery Facility, located on Drop-Off Drive, off Warren Road, between Beaver Dam Road and York Road (Monday-Saturday, 7am - 4pm)

Western Acceptance Facility, located at 3310 Transway Road, off the 4500 block of Hollins Ferry Road (Monday-Saturday, 7am-4pm)

No appliances or commercial or institutional electronics will be accepted. 
For more information, residents can call 410 887-2000 or go to www.baltimorecountymd.gov/recycling