How often do you take your recyclables to the recycle place? Seems like a lot of work! Sure wish the city would start a pick up service! I would love to do our part!

We're doing pretty good since starting. We're just using a couple of med. sized boxes, so we go about once a week. There is a nice recycling center in the Walmart parking lot on the way out to Wild Waters. So I just drop mine off on the way out there. Pretty easy!

We go about twice a month. The nice thing about the stackable drawer system is that you can slide the drawer right out, evrything's sorted and we load them into the trunk. So far it's working...

I am going to look for those bins after my hubby gets paid!

Hi! A friend was moving out of Ocala, she had a bunch of soda cans she was going to recycle did not have the time, so i told my son, lets bring them to the recycle place and see what we can get for them and then he can buy a new video game, well... we went and we got 23.00 dollars, he thought it was the coolest thing ever, now we have set up our own recycle bins and he looks forward to filling it up and going back, so cool...Thanks for the ideas.

I have discovered that apparently there are two different programs that are used for recycling. One for the city of Ocala itself and one for those that pay the solid waste assessment fee.

This is the reply that I got from writing an email to the county about recycling as I was confused about what could and couldn't be recycled.



PUBLIC NOTICE
FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE

RECYCLING CENTERS PROVIDE A SERVICE FOR THOSE RESIDENTS THAT PAY THE SOLID WASTE ASSESSMENT, AS DEFINED IN COUNTY ORDINANCE 03-8

CONTAINERS AND RECEPTACLES ARE PROVIDED FOR THE FOLLOWING:
Newspaper Only – Inserts are OK - No Books, Letters, Etc.

Cardboard – Includes Soft Drink Cartons, Brown Paper Bags,

Cereal Boxes, and Clean Unlined Feedbags

Plastic Bottles - # 1 through # 7, No oil bottles

Aluminum Beverage Cans and Clean Tin Foil

Clear, Green, and Brown Glass Bottles

Clean Tin Cans

Junk Mail and Magazines – No Hard Bound Books

Household Kitchen Garbage

Used Motor Oil and Oil Filters – No Water, Gas, Antifreeze or
Mixtures!

Batteries and Paint Related Materials

YARD WASTE –

* RECYCLING CENTERS – 2 CUBIC YARDS PER DAY/PER HOUSEHOLD THE MAXIMUM DIMENSIONS FOR YARD WASTE – NOT OVER 4 INCHES IN DIAMETER, NOT OVER 4 FEET IN LENGTH, AND NO MORE THAN 2 CUBIC YARDS IN VOLUME PER DAY.

TWO CUBIC YARDS IS EQUAL TO THE FOLLOWING:
1. ONE REGULAR SIZE PICK-UP LOAD TO TOP OF BED
2. NO COMMERCIAL TRAILERS OR LAWN COMPANIES

NO LUMBER, NO CARPET OR FENCE WIRE. FURNITURE IS ACCEPTED TWO WEEKENDS PER YEAR AT DESIGNATED RECYCLING CENTERS. THE DAYS WILL BE POSTED TWO WEEKS IN ADVANCE AND THE ATTENDANT HAS THE SCHEDULE AT EACH RECYCLING CENTER

NON-ACCEPTED MATERIALS: PESTICIDES, PROPANE TANKS, TIRES
· These items can be disposed of at the household hazardous waste collection center, at Baseline Road Landfill. For information call 671-8465

IF YOU HAVE AN OUT OF COUNTY TAG, YOU MAY BE ASKED TO PROVIDE PROOF OF MARION COUNTY RESIDENCY. PROOF MAY BE A COPY OF THE RESIDENTS TAX BILL, VOTERS REGISTRATION, OR DRIVERS LICENSE.