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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 21, 2025
VICTORVILLE, Calif. — City of Victorville residents who recycle correctly have a chance to win a $100 gift card by entering “The Right Stuff” Curbside Recycling Contest going on now.
Residents can visit vv.city/therightstuff to sign up for the contest. The contest continues through September 30.
To be eligible to win, residents must sign up for the contest and recycle correctly. Sorting is as easy as 1, 2, 3!
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Use the Green Organics Cart Only for Organic Material—Organic material includes bagged food waste and food scraps such as eggshells, fruit & vegetable peels, bakery items, coffee grounds, meat, poultry, fish, and bones, as well as loose yard trimmings such as branches, grass, flowers, leaves, and more. Food waste should always be bagged, and yard trimmings should always be loose. Remember, the green organics cart must NOT include any recyclables or trash.
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Use the Blue Recycling Cart Only for Recyclables—Recyclable items include glass bottles and jars, tin and aluminum cans, rigid plastic containers (bottles/jars/tubs/trays), as well as clean and dry paper and cardboard. All bottles and cans must be completely empty and free of food residue. Recyclables should be placed loose into the recycle bin, not bagged. The recycle cart must not contain any “trash” or “contaminants” such as plastic bags, soiled paper, food, or garden trimmings.
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Use the Trash Cart Only for Trash—The other part of recycling correctly is to make sure no recyclable items end up in the trash. It is important to recycle cereal boxes, plastic shampoo bottles, junk mail, school papers, yogurt containers, laundry detergent boxes, bottles, etc.
Every week, new contestants are chosen, and their organics, recycling, and trash carts are checked. If the customer has correctly sorted all three carts of waste, then they are announced a winner!
“The Right Stuff” Contest is sponsored by Burrtec Waste Industries in cooperation with the City of Victorville. For more information or to request a paper entry form, residents should call the City of Victorville Environmental Programs Division at (760)955-8615.
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