Each year Kansans produce about 3.2 million tons of trash, which is

enough to bury

100 football fields 3 feet deep in trash.  But we recycle only about 20% of it! 

*Courtesy Kansas Dept. of Health and Environment

Please Recycle The Following

Clear #1 plastic drink bottles and #2 plastic milk jugs - rinsed out

(According to Beverage Marketing Corporation, by one estimate U.S. drinkers toss 60 million plastic water bottles a day.)

Plastic shopping bags and other #1 and #2 plastics - rinsed out

Glass: clear, green, and brown - rinsed out

Steel food cans - rinsed out

Aluminum cans and other foil items

Fiberboard such as cereal and cake mix boxes

Brown paper bags and all other feed sacks that do NOT have a plastic liner

Corrugated cardboard boxes - broken down so they lay flat

Magazines, telephone books, catalogs, and old books

Mixed paper which includes junk mail, school papers, cards etc.

White copy paper

Newspapers

(Onaga can take styrofoam packing peanuts, bubble wrap, shredded paper as well as other packing material you might get in the mail.  Please bring these materials on the 1st and 3rd Saturday mornings to the west exhibit hall at the fairgrounds between 9:00 and 11:00)

Items NOT accepted in the Recycling Trailers

Oil containers of any kind (Motor oil to cooking oil to salad dressing bottles) 

There is a green army trailer east of Bob's Service in Onaga where used oil filters can be left.

Cardboard that has oil of any kind on it such as pizza boxes

Window panes

Plastics #3, #5 and #7 as well as hard plastic pill bottles. 

(Check symbol for the number on the bottom of the container)

Lids on milk jugs, drink bottles and other plastic containers

Wax paper, styrofoam and other food wrappers

Laminated or waxed paper products

Recycling Trailer Sites in Pottawatomie County

MAP

Onaga - Fair Grounds, northeast corner of Onaga

Westmoreland - south across from the Health Department at 320 Main St.

St. George - 308 Lincoln, to the west of St. George Elementary on the football field

Wamego - south side of 4th street across from the Dutch Mill

St. Marys - 420 S. 6th**

Landfill - 8585 Wheaton Rd. **

**Open during business hours only.  All other trailers open 24x7 - just pull the door and place your items in the correct container.  Thank you.

***R-Squad Electronics Recycling Drive

The Onaga school recycling club (the R-Squad) is now collecting unwanted electronics to recycle.  Items accepted are  electronic items such as TV's, computers, monitors, cell phones, calculators, remote controls, electronic games, scanners, etc.  These need to be taken to the Onaga Grade School by May 13.

***Newspaper Drive!!

Start collecting for the 2008 Spring Newspaper drive!  This drive will be held in April.  Watch for information coming out in local newspapers.  We make the most money if we collect 25 tons of newpaper so start hoarding them now!  Drop off locations are in Onaga in the blue bin that sits outside the west fair building that can be used at any time or can be brought to that building on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays from 9:00 to 11:00 A.M. and in St. George the basement of the white garage that is across from the school sitting on the very northeast corner of the football field is open for depositing newspaper anytime.

It is greatly appreciated if newspapers can be stored at home between drives.

***Aluminum Cans!!

Aluminum cans may be taken to Howie's at 625 S. 10th St., off Ft. Riley Blvd., in Manhattan and sold for the purpose of helping finance PRC.  Ask that the money from your collection be placed in the account titled Pottawatomie Recycling Committee.

Financial Donations may be made out to:

Pottawatomie Recycling Committee, Phyllis Hupe, Treasurer, P.O. Box 171, Westmoreland, Kansas 66549

Or for a tax-deductible donation to:

Wamego Community Foundation, Memo line: Pottawatomie Recycling Committee, P.O. Box 25, Wamego, Kansas 66547

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