Starting Monday, Longmont residents, who are customers of the residential solid waste utility, will have about two weeks to dispose of recyclables that cannot normally be discarded from curbside recyclable materials bins to city collection.

According to reports, Longmont is holding a so-called "difficult to recycle event". The event time will be from 9 am to 3:50 pm on Monday to October 16, and from 9 am to 3:50 pm on October 18. October 22. City press release.

This event is open to all Longmont Residential Waste Service customers. Residents must book materials that are difficult to recycle to Green Girl Recycling at 21 S. Sunset St. City officials said the project is a partner of the project.

Items that are difficult to recycle are recyclable materials, but cannot enter the city's roadside recycling trucks. Longmont solid waste collectors conduct standard bi-weekly recycling.

Officials said that examples of items that will be accepted in the Longmont hard-to-recover incident include: computer monitors, keyboards and cables; flat-panel and cassette cathode-ray tube televisions; printer cartridges; electronic products with wires, such as toasters and printers; hardcover books And manuals and so on.

The following items are not accepted: household and car oil; plastic bags; cardboard; styrofoam; washing machines and dryers; paint and other household chemicals; light bulbs and refrigerators.

For a more complete list of accepted and unacceptable items, people can visit the city's "difficult to recycle" page tinyurl.com/yevbhnfa. The website also has a link that people can use to book a drop-off visit to Green Girl Recycling. City officials stated that reservations must be made in 10-minute increments.

Anyone who wants to participate but cannot book online can call the city's customer service center for help at 303-651-8416. Since this activity is only applicable to Longmont residential waste customers, people are required to bring the nearest Longmont utility bill and identification when discarding materials.

City staff stated in their press release that the “difficult to recycle” incident “reflects the Longmont City Council’s commitment to create a more sustainable community by strengthening services such as recycling and composting. The city council’s original goal is to initiate in 2022 An event that is difficult to recycle, but New York City chose to hold the event earlier."

The city is cooperating with Green Girl Recycling to host this event. City officials stated in a press release, “Green Girl Recycling is a women-owned enterprise located in Longmont, founded by Bridget Johnson in 1998. Initially focused on providing recycling services for mountain communities in Boulder County, but as it Acquired other local recycling companies."

According to Bob Allen, Director of Public Works and Natural Resources Operations, the city will pay Green Girl an agreed fixed fee for collecting various items to cover its business expenses.

"We are using common market pricing for items that are difficult to recycle," Allen said in an email on Friday. "We expect that most of these items will be electronic products. For some items with commodity value, residents do not need to pay any fees, nor do they need to pay the city government. This will include specific electronic products, such as computer towers and laptops. Computers, mobile phones, circuit boards, etc.

"In this case, Green Girl will retain any income from the sale of these products to cover the cost of the event."

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