West Lane Place Civic Association

Area Recycling Information

Recycling Info by Page Williams

WEST LANE PLACE WASTE DISPOSAL GUIDE

If you have not received your recycling bin,
phone Page Williams and she will deliver one to you

TUESDAY is our usual collection day; Wednesday is our collection
day following Monday City holidays. By City ordinance, and for
neighborhood aesthetics, place all collections curbside no
earlier than 6pm the previous evening and no later than 7am
that day, and remove the containers by 10pm after collection.

CONTAINERS: Your home was issued an automated garbage
collection container and a recycling bin. Both are the property
of the City, and remain with your home if you move. Mark them
both with your address and periodically rinse them for
cleanliness. Make a note of the white serial number on your
garbage container - if it is stolen the City will replace
it free if you report the serial number to City of Houston
Police Department and get a case number for the City.
The container should be placed curbside with the handle
side facing your home. Leave at least 3 feet between your
containers and your recycling bins and yard waste bags - the
automated trash collection truck arm needs space to pick up
your container, and cannot retrieve your container if it
is under low tree branches, or abutting parked cars and
other containers. For multi-home communities, it would be
helpful if you grouped your curbside items by category,
rather than by address.

HOUSEHOLD GARBAGE: Weekly. Do not use your container for
rocks, concrete, dirt, building materials, paint, corrosive
chemicals, large metal objects, furniture, dead animals
or tree branches with a diameter of more than 3".
If you have more garbage than the container will hold, you
may place an additional bag of garbage on the top of the
container, to be lifted up to the truck with your
container. If you place sacks or boxes of garbage next
to your container, the automated truck arm cannot retrieve
them.

RECYCLING: Alternate weeks. The City only collects:
plastic bottles of less than 3 gallons, rinsed and flattened,
with lids removed, with #1 or #2 recycling logos; aluminum,
tin, steel and empty aerosol cans (place lids inside
containers); corrugated cardboard, flattened and folded
to 3' x 3' (no food, pizza, cereal, beverage or styrofoam
containers); telephone books; newspapers, magazines and
catalogs (remove plastic wrapping, rubber oands and
inserts); mail, envelopes, home and office paper (no
decorative or dark paper, no plastic or foil packaging);
used motor oil, drained into original container and
securely closed (no empty oil containers or
anti-freeze products).
Placing at least the top paper layer in paper grocery sacks
will prevent papers from being blown around the neighborhood.
Paper sacks of newspapers will be collected at curbside,
even if your bin is not curbside.

Glass can be recycled at the City's Westpark Recycling
Center, 5900 Westpark Drive, as well as tires and the normal
bin items. Acids, aerosol cans, automobile-related fluids,
chemicals, paint-related products, pesticides, and
batteries can be taken to the City's Environmental Service
Center, at 11500 S. Post Oak - confirm the days/hours first
by calling 713-551-7355. No plastic bags are recycled by the
city, but Randall's grocery store recycles them. Suggestion:
several households can "carpool" delivery of these items.

YARD TRIMMINGS: Weekly. Grass, leaves and small twigs must
be in bags, not to exceed 50 pounds, with no paper, plastic or
other contaminants. Small limbs, no more than 3" in diameter, must
be tied in bundles no more than 18" in diameter and 4 feet in length.
Unflocked Christmas trees are collected (or mulched at Memorial
Park when scheduled.)

HEAVY TRASH: Monthly, first Tuesday (call 3-1-1 to confirm.) This is
only for collection of tires,flocked Christmas trees, large limbs,
appliances, and furniture. Any refrigerant, like freon, must be
removed by an authorized technician, with the removal certificate
clearly displayed. This service will not collect building materials
lumber, fencing, roofing, siding, insulation, sheetrock, brick, plaster),
dirt, sand, gravel, or large automobile parts - you need to pay
private contractors to haul these items.

STORM SEWERS: They are meant to carry away rainwater, and flow
directly into Buffalo Bayou, Galveston Bay, and the Gulf of Mexico.
Leaves, lumber, plastic bags, cups, cans and bottles block our
runoff during flooding rains; dog excrement, paint and toxic
chemicals poison our waters and our seafood. Rake and bag leaves
from your gutters for Yard Trimmings pick up. Carry plastic bags
to scoop your dogs excrement, and place it in your garbage
container for disposal in a sanitary landfill. Leave your cans of
leftover paint open until solidified, then discard in your
garbage container.

MOVING BOXES: Collapse and stack for Heavy Trash, or collapse
and fold to 3'x 3' for Recycling.

Additional Info Links

City of Houston Solid Waste Department