City Temporarily
Suspends Glass Recycling, Reminds
Residents Of Free Paper Shredding Day, And
Begins Composting Partnership
NEW
ORLEANS
– Today, the City of New Orleans Department of Sanitation announced that its
glass processing contractor is expanding its facility and capacity to hold
recycled glass for the city’s residents. Until the expanded space is finalized
and is able to accept glass, the City will temporarily suspend glass recycling
at the monthly drop-off events at the City’s Recycling Drop-Off Center (2829
Elysian Fields Ave.) until the glass processor resumes operation.
Beginning Saturday, April 14, glass will
not be accepted at the Recycling Drop-Off Center as the glass recycling
facility utilized by the City is currently unable to accept glass. The City’s
contractor utilized to transport the glass, Metro Services, has agreed to store
the glass collected in prior events, until the end of April 2018.
Persons may recycle glass at Target
stores in the area at no cost. Target has recycling stations located in
front of their store locations. For more information, visit target.com.
In September 2015, the
City began curbside glass recycling each week in the French Quarter and the
Downtown Development District (DDD). Due to low participation, the City
replaced the curbside glass recycling program in the French Quarter and the DDD
by the addition of glass to the City’s monthly Recycling Drop-Off Center’s list
of accepted items in January 2017, so that all Orleans Parish residents could
recycle glass.
City Begins to Offer
Composting Service
On Saturday, April 14, 2018, the City of
New Orleans Department of Sanitation will kick off its partnership with The
Composting Network. The City will accept composting materials this Saturday
from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the City’s Recycling Drop-Off Center (2829 Elysian
Fields Avenue) during its monthly drop-off event.
Beginning this Saturday, individual
residents will be able to bring frozen food scraps to be composted by the
Composting Network. The Composting Network will accept fruit and vegetable
scraps (peels, skins, pits, or seeds), tea bags, coffee grounds including paper
filters, eggshells, nutshells, seed shells, plain bread, grains, and plain
pasta. The Network will not accept meat, dairy, bones, or foods with oil.
Free Paper Shredding
Day on Saturday, April 14
On Saturday, April 14, 2018, the City of
New Orleans Department of Sanitation will also host another free paper
shredding event from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the City’s Recycling Drop-Off Center
(2829 Elysian Fields Ave.)
During Shred Days, which are held four
times a year, Orleans Parish residents can bring up to 50 lbs. of personal or
sensitive documents to be shredded safely and securely by Iron Mountain in its
on-site mobile unit. Iron Mountain will shred mixed office paper, light
cardboard and similar materials. They will not shred plastic, compact discs,
DVDs or other metal (other than paper clips or staples).
These companies offer their services at
no cost to the public as a community service in conjunction with the City’s
Recycling Drop Off events, held on the second Saturday of each month.
On the second Saturday of each month,
Orleans Parish residents can drop off paper products (newspapers, junk mail,
phone books, catalogs, office paper, color inserts); plastics #1 through #7
(water, soda, juice, detergent, plastic pots from nurseries, plastic bags,
etc.); metals (aluminum, tin and steel cans); cardboard; boxboard (cereal
boxes); Mardi Gras beads; batteries (AA, AAA, AAAA, C, D, 6 & 9 volt,
Lithium); light bulbs (incandescent and fluorescent); and electronics such as
computers, laptops, phones, televisions (limit 4), microwave ovens (limit 4),
tires (limit 4) and designated organics for composting.
Since the City initiated a Recycling
Drop Off Center in August 2010, a total of 929 tons have been recycled.
Since the current curbside recycling program began in May 2011, a total of
46,500 tons have been recycled. Properties which are eligible to
receive solid waste collection by the City, are also eligible to register to
receive free recycling services.
For more information, or to order a
curbside recycling cart, please call 311 or visit nola.gov/sanitation/recycling.
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