Recycling

Shedding Light on Shredding

By Sharon Balke - Recently two neighbors asked me if it is acceptable to put shredded paper in plastic bags into the recycling cart.  I felt confident that the paper was fine but I wasn’t sure about the plastic bag since we all know plastic bags are not allowed. ...

Quick Review

By Sharon Balke -  Each time I drop a can, plastic container or newspaper in my new green recycling bin, I enjoy the feeling of doing “what’s right”.  They were a long time in coming but are worth the wait. I have had a couple of residents ask me if yard clippings are...

Green Bin Disposal

by Sharon Balke Aren’t the green recycling cans great?  They holdso much and there is no worry of material getting wet if it rains or blowing away if it’s windy.  I hope that Timbergrove has at least an 80% participation rate. I have found a place that will accept the...

Good Things Come to Those That Wait

written by: Sharon Balke By now all of you have received your green recycling cans. I catch myself saying green garbage cans but they are far from that. These cans will remove what some residents formerly tossed in the black garbage cans that ended up at the expensive...