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Smash & (reduce) Trash Recycling Event

Smash and Trash: Pumpkin and Pop-up recycling event!  Bring in your Halloween pumpkin and give it a whack to help create compost for the Village Green gardens. While you are there, recycle all the other things you have been saving up, waiting for a recycling event to happen! We are also collecting Halloween candy wrappers. This "Smash and (Reduce) Trash event is at Village Green on November 4th, from 9am-11am.

Some things are free to recycle, others are a modest fee. Here is the list!

  • ‘Styrofoam’ (Polystyrene foam*) - Free (Dart) (no packing peanuts)

  • Textiles - Free (Flat Can)

  • Electronics - Free (except monitors $30) (Junkluggers)

  • Aerosols - $1 per can (Flat Can)

  • Latex Paint (Flat Can)

    • Sample - $0.50 per container

    • Quart - $2 per container

    • 1 Gallon -$5 per container

    • 5 Gallon -$20 per container

  • 1lb Propane Tanks $3 (Flat Can)

  • Car Seats - $20 per seat (Flat Can)

  • Household Batteries - $4 per pound (Flat Can)

  • Candy wrappers from Halloween Bagged)- Free (Go Green)

*Coolers, cups, foam packing blocks, egg cartons, and clean plates and to-go containers are welcome. No packing peanuts  

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