Historical February–March 2005 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
New Year’s resolutions are notoriously hard to keep, but here’s one idea that’s easy to stick with: Recycling. Thanks to a special program offered by the City of St. Louis, residents of the 63112 zip code can receive weekly curbside recycling pickup at a nominal cost.
The program is run by the City’s Refuse Division, with funding from the Jefferson-St. Louis Solid Waste Management District.
The City contracts with a private company, Earth Circle Recycling to provide the hauling service. Paper, glass, plastic and cardboard can all be recycled.
To enroll, send a $37.50 check (covers 10 months of recycling) payable to Earth Circle Recycling, P.O. Box 3505, St. Louis, MO 63143. Enrollment is limited, so call or email the Refuse Division first to make sure that slots are still available in the program: 353-7176 or hamiltonj@stlouiscity.com. Enrollment deadlines are the 15th of each month for service to begin the following month. Once your payment is accepted, Earth Circle will bring you a blue collection bin and notify you of your first pickup day. Recycling can also be dropped off free of charge at area collection sites.
In the Central West End, there is a collection site at the former Lashly Branch of the St. Louis Public Library at 4537 West Pine Boulevard, just west of Taylor Avenue.
In recent years St. Louisans have recycled an annual average of 8,000,000 pounds of material, of which 2,904,000 pounds were newspaper. By making new paper products out of this much newspaper, we saved: • the energy equivalent of 667,920 gallons of oil • approximately 24,684 trees • 11,616 cubic feet of landfill space • and we eliminated 87,120 pounds of air pollutants.
As good as this is, we can do better in 2005. So make your New Year’s resolution for the environment and start recycling today!
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, February–March 2005.
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