Irmo Residents to Receive New Recycling Carts

Residents of the town of Irmo will soon see new green recycling carts at their curbs.

Starting July 30 residents will receive a 65-gallon recycling cart.

“Irmo has a good recycling program in place, but we were finding that the majority of those who recycled completely filled their 18-gallon bin and put the additional recyclables out with their garbage,” Hardee Horne, Advanced Disposal’s municipal marketing and government affairs manager, said in a release. “The new, 65-gallon carts will allow residents to recycle nearly three times as much material.”

The Irmo Town Council decided earlier this year to use the larger recycling cart instead of the smaller bins. 

The first week for recycling collection will begin Aug. 6 and will run every other week, the same day as garbage collections.
  
Advanced Disposal will collect the old collection bins when the new carts are distributed or on residents’ first recycle day.   

The following items are acceptable for recycling:

• Plastic food, beverage, detergent bottles and jugs labeled 1-7
• Water bottles
• Metal cans
• Aluminum cans
• Newspapers and inserts
• Magazines
• Catalogs
• Telephone books
• Brown paper bags
• Corrugated cardboard
• Office and copy paper
• File folders
• File or packing boxes
• Junk mail
• Cereal boxes
• Brown or gray fiber packages
• All types of glass

Items such as plastic bags, milk or juice cardboard cartons, and medical waste are not recycled.

Service is single-stream recycling, so there is no sorting required by residents, according to the company. 

For more information on garbage and recycling collection guidelines in Irmo, visit Advanced Disposal’s website or call 803-256-7276.  

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