Please Recycle The Following
Clear #1 plastic drink bottles and #2 plastic milk jugs - rinsed out
Shopping plastic 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
Computer printer cartridges and cell phones
Fiberboard such as cereal and cake mix boxes
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
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 and above 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 paper products
Household trash that really does need to be picked up and transported to the landfill
Recycling Trailer Sites in Pottawatomie County
Onaga - Fair Grounds, northeast corner of Onaga
Westmoreland - south of Main Street across from the Health Department
St. George - across the street, to the west of St. George Elementary
Wamego - south of the Dutch Mill
St. Marys - 420 S. 6th**
Landfill - 8585 Wheaton Rd. **
**Open during business hours only. All other trailers open 42x7 - just pull the door and place your items in the correct container. Thank you.
***Newspaper Drive!!
Start collecting for the 2006 Fall Newspaper drive. This drive will end the end of October to the first part of November. 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.
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