Recycling Information
for Township Staff
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colored or white paper
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manila file folders (not colored folders)
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index cards
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fax paper
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staples OK
not: magazines, newspaper, boxboard, hanging folders, books/cardboard, brown/goldenrod envelopes See a more detailed list if you have specific questions.
Need a blue bin? Call Dennis at 4624 or LeRoy at 4466
Need a sign to post by your bin? click here
What goes in the brown & green bins?
Answer: magazines and newspapers go in the larger 50 gallon brown and green bins.
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Newspapers and magazines can be mixed together in the brown or green bins
Locations of brown and green bins:
Municipal Building: Green & brown recycling bins are available for newspapers and magazines in the lunch/break room and under the front counter to the left/west of the Treasurer's office. When full, these can be taken to the recycling storage room/janitors' storage room. Call LeRoy (4466) if these need emptying.
Public Safety: There is a brown container on the 2nd Floor in the "copy room" across from the break room.
Service Center: See Robin or Dennis
Other locations are welcome to participate. Granger picks up a the Municipal Building every two weeks. Material must be transported to the janitors' storage room. Call LeRoy if you need help.
What about cardboard & other materials?
Cardboard & Boxboard: Flatten and place in the janitors' closet. Separate cardboard from boxboard. There's a box for boxboard. It can temporarily stacked neatly behind the brown or green bins. Call LeRoy if you need help taking it to the janitors' closet.
#1 & #2 plastic & metal cans: There are containers near the lunch room and 1st floor kitchenette in the municipal building. Please call LeRoy 4466 when full or take to janitors' closet.
Rechargable Batteries: Take to the Treasurer's Office. There is a box in the 1st Floor lunchroom in the Municipal Building.
See the "Recyclopedia" for a comprehensive list of many other recycleable materials -- what to take where!
What do we take at our Recycling Center?
Click here for current hours and info.
Visit these websites for instructions on how to reduce junk mail!
The City of East Lansing has some good suggestions here (& pasted below)
- Reduce mail order sales companies from sending you junk mail
Contact the Direct Marketing Association and request your name be added to their suppression list (this should reduce junk mail from these sources by about 75%)
Direct Marketing Association
Preference Service
PO Box 9008
Farmingdale, NY 11736
Phone (212) 768-7277
- Reduce junk mail from unsolicited credit and insurance offers: Call either one of the following companies: Equifax, (888) 567-8688 or TransUnion, (800) 680-7293
- Write or call the company soliciting you directly: Request that your name be removed from any list they use or share.
What other questions or suggestions do you have?
Please call 853-4466 or write
harvey@meridian.mi.us