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City of Manchester Recycling Program
DISPOSING ELECTRONICS
As of July 1, 2007, the City of Manchester Refuse Division will no longer collect TVs and computer monitors at the curb. Residents will be required to bring these items to the Drop-Off for free disposal.
The City is also offering free disposal of computer peripherals and electronics. Click here for more information.
On March 1, 2006 Corcoran Environmental Services took over as the City's recycling and yard waste contractor. Recycling collection is now weekly, on the same day as your trash collection.
Our program is COMMINGLED; all containers together & all paper together but separate from one another, they go in different compartments of the collection vehicle.
Curbside pickup of recyclables is available to any resident who normally has curbside pickup of household trash by the City.
Click Here for more information on Manchester's curbside collection program and Corcoran Services' role in recycling in the city.
Extra bins are available at the Highway Dept. at 227 Maple Street & the Drop-off Center at 500 Dunbarton Road
DISPOSAL OF FLOURESCENT LIGHT BULBS
Leblanc’s True Value Hardware, located at 621 Hayward Street, has partnered with the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services to accept and dispose of fluorescent light bulbs from City residents. Mr. Phil Leblanc stated that Leblanc’s will take up to six (6) light bulbs (up to eight (8) feet long), as well as circular fluorescent bulbs.
RECYCLING OF PACKING PEANUTS AND BUBBLE WRAP
Packing peanuts and bubble wrap can be recycled at any of the three UPS store locations owned by Mr. Steve Sacca. The stores include 373 South Willow Street and 497 Hooksett Road in Manchester, as well as the UPS store located at 7 Colby Court in Bedford.
The owner, Steve Sacca, will accept clean packing peanuts and bubble wrap for reuse. No bubble bags will be accepted at this time.
Recycling is environmentally and economically necessary! Natural resources are captured and returned to the marketplace for reuse. And by removing them from the City's waste stream we save tax dollars by avoiding disposal costs.
Click here to view the Collection Map and Schedule.
Click Here for information on our Yard Waste Collection Program
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Acceptable/Unacceptable Recyclables:
Paper Products:
Place paper products beside the recycling bin, in a brown paper grocery bag, or tie with string
Acceptable:
Newspapers, Magazines, Inserts, Paperboard (cereal boxes, tissue boxes, etc.), Phone Books, Flattened clean corrugated cardboard
Unacceptable:
Loose Paper, Food-soiled paper, Plastic bags, Tissue Paper, Napkins
Glass Products
Glass must be rinsed clean, labels are ok but remove all caps.
Acceptable:
Glass bottles, jars, all sizes and colors
Unacceptable:
Window glass, Pyrex, ceramics, light bulbs, broken glass.
Metal Products
Rinse clean, labels may be left on, CRUSH metal to save space, place in the bin with the other recyclables
Acceptable
Deposit and Non-deposit beverage cans, Metal food cans, Aluminum foil, Empty aerosol cans.
Unacceptable
No paint cans, or any other metal not listed above.
Plastic Products
Remove and discard caps and pumps, rinse clean, CRUSH to save space, place in bin with other recyclables
Acceptable
Check bottom of containers for numbers.
All plastic soda bottles with "1" symbol and all milk, water, or juice bottles, also "2", all colored laundry detergent bottles and personal care bottles.
Unacceptable
No "3" through "7" recycling symbols. No plastic bags, and no motor oil bottles.
COMPLETING THE RECYCLING CYCLE
You can help make recycling work for everyone by "closing the loop"
Like many other Americans, you collect and sort items that can be recycled. That's good, because you help your community reduce the amount of garbage going to the Landfill. But putting items out for collection or dropping them off at a local center is only the first of three steps in the recycling process. It may surprise you to learn that what you BUY is just as important as saving the things your recycling collection center takes.
To market, to market...
Today, approximately 21% of our trash is recovered annually for recycling. Where do these millions of pounds of recyclables go after collection? Manufacturers use them to make new products-recycling's second step. The third and final step returns the new products to the marketplace. This step is one that YOU need to support if recycling is to remain part of the solution to the country's garbage issue.
Why Should I Buy Recycled?
You "close the loop" when you buy items or packaging made from recycled materials. They have now come full-circle: from bag or bin to a manufacturer, to the store shelf, and back to your home. And after using the item, you can start the loop again by saving it for the local recycling program.
When you buy recycled, markets are created and a use is assured for recyclables being collected in your community and in thousands of others. Manufacturers will respond by continuing to use recyclables in their products.
Without informed consumers and a ready market for products made of recycled materials, local recycling programs will become more costly and fewer recyclables may be collected and processed. More reusable material will end up in landfills, and communities will need to deal with an increased amount of garbage.
How do I Find Products and Packaging Made from Recycled Material?
Products and packaging made from recycled material are everywhere-in stores that sell groceries, office supplies, auto parts, and everything in between.
Recyclables are transformed into an amazing variety of new products. Plastic milk jugs return to yards and parks as plastic lumber and picnic tables. Steel food cans return to the hardware store as nails and screws. Newspapers become egg cartons. There's no limit to the things that can be made from recyclables.
Many products are identified "recycled" or "partially recycled" on the label or on the product itself. Others may contain recycled material but may not be identified. For instance, there's a good chance that the glass containers, aluminum and steel cans, paperboard boxes and plastic detergent bottles you buy are made of some recycled material.
Some products and packaging also have labels describing the amount of "pre-consumer" waste that was used. "Pre-consumer" waste is also known as manufacturing waste and includes any scraps, trimmings, over-runs, etc. from the manufacturing process. "Post-consumer" waste is a product or other material that has served its intended use and has been discarded and then collected for recycling.
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