City officials announced Friday that they plan to restart curbside recycling for residences and businesses, as well as dumpster service, next week. Recycling pickup was stopped April 13 because of an equipment breakdown at the recycling center.
Acceptable items are:
- Aluminum and steel cans
- Plastic screw-top bottles and jugs
- Dry corrugated cardboard with packing material removed
- Glass bottles and jars, both colored and clear.
Never bag recyclables. They should be put in the blue cart or recycling dumpster loose.
Residents can still take clean paper — newspapers, office paper, paper mail, magazines and catalogs — to one of the yellow recycling bins. The closest bin to Mentelle Neighborhood is in the parking lot behind the Herald-Leader building off Midland Avenue near Short Street.