Virtual options remain available at BCSWMD Offices and the Bartholomew County Yard Waste Site. If customers are interested in virtual options contact us at 812-376-2614 press 5 then 1 or debra.arnholt@bartholomew.in.gov. All BCSWMD Board meetings will be conducted virtually until the end of August via Zoom. If Governor Holcomb's emergency order is extended through September we will continue with virtual Zoom meetings in September.
Friday afternoons from 2:00-4:30, Bartholomew County residents can get one pick-up sized scoop of mulch or compost loaded for $10. Stop in the BCSWMD office to pay and get a loading ticket. No businesses please. The Citizens Advisory Committee to the Bartholomew County Solid Waste Management District is leading a waste diversion effort for this year's Ethnic Expo events being held on 4th Street in downtown Columbus.
Friday afternoons from 2:00-4:30, Bartholomew County residents can get one pick-up sized scoop of mulch or compost loaded for $10. Stop in the BCSWMD office to pay and get a loading ticket. No businesses please. The Citizens Advisory Committee to the Bartholomew County Solid Waste Management District is leading a waste diversion effort for this year's Ethnic Expo events being held on 4th Street in downtown Columbus.
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The Bartholomew County Solid Waste Management District is a registered collector in Indiana's E-Waste Program.
BCSWMD charges $20 for all TVs and computer monitors brought to the Recycling Center and Landfill.
Due to space limitations at the Columbus/Bartholomew Recycling Center, projection televisions should go to the landfill for recycling.
BCSWMD reserves the right to refuse any items for recycling that are disruptive to our recycling efforts.
Most items with a cord or computer related electronics are accepted at the Bartholomew County Landfill or the Recycling Center.
BCSWMD charges $20 for all TVs and computer monitors brought to the Recycling Center and Landfill.
Due to space limitations at the Columbus/Bartholomew Recycling Center, projection televisions should go to the landfill for recycling.
BCSWMD reserves the right to refuse any items for recycling that are disruptive to our recycling efforts.
Most items with a cord or computer related electronics are accepted at the Bartholomew County Landfill or the Recycling Center.
The Paper Retriever Program offers a community based fund raising recycling service to non-profit organizations such as schools, churches and civic organizations.
For qualifying organizations, Paper Retriever provides its green and yellow recycling bins to collect newspaper, catalogs, magazines, junk mail, office paper, school paper, notebooks and folders.
We pay our non-profit partners for paper collected in the bin.
The more you recycle, the more you raise!
Please contact Ray's Paper Retriever for more information at 800-531-6752.
For qualifying organizations, Paper Retriever provides its green and yellow recycling bins to collect newspaper, catalogs, magazines, junk mail, office paper, school paper, notebooks and folders.
We pay our non-profit partners for paper collected in the bin.
The more you recycle, the more you raise!
Please contact Ray's Paper Retriever for more information at 800-531-6752.
City of Columbus Department of Public Works: Curbside Recycling, Sanitation/Trash and Yard Waste Services call 812-376-2509.
Trash collection is provided by the City of Columbus Department of Public Works one time per week.
Curbside collection of recyclables is provided every other week and will be picked up the same day as trash pickup.
Up to 20 bags or boxes and one piece of furniture may be picked up on the curbside after you call the City Garage to make a ticket for your extra trash.
Bulky item call-ins are limited to one time per month.
Trash collection is provided by the City of Columbus Department of Public Works one time per week.
Curbside collection of recyclables is provided every other week and will be picked up the same day as trash pickup.
Up to 20 bags or boxes and one piece of furniture may be picked up on the curbside after you call the City Garage to make a ticket for your extra trash.
Bulky item call-ins are limited to one time per month.
For a fee, Bartholomew County businesses can deliver their brush and tree limbs to the Columbus/Bartholomew Yard Waste site for mulching.
Grass, leaves, garden waste, flowers, weeds, tree fruit, and thatch may be disposed of at no cost at the lower level of the compost site.
All items should be debagged and not include trash.
The site is located adjacent to the Columbus/Bartholomew Recycling Center.
Please observe all signage.
Approved users must report all loads delivered.
All Materials Must Be Clean (NO Trash) and Free of Soil, Rocks, and debris or Loads Will Be Refused!
Grass, leaves, garden waste, flowers, weeds, tree fruit, and thatch may be disposed of at no cost at the lower level of the compost site.
All items should be debagged and not include trash.
The site is located adjacent to the Columbus/Bartholomew Recycling Center.
Please observe all signage.
Approved users must report all loads delivered.
All Materials Must Be Clean (NO Trash) and Free of Soil, Rocks, and debris or Loads Will Be Refused!
The following section will describe Household Hazardous Waste, how to reduce and then take care of the products you have.
1. Ignitable - Combustible or flammable such as paint wastes, some degreasers and other solvents.
2. Corrosive - Burns the skin, corrodes metals or other materials such as battery acid, rust removers and acid or alkaline cleaning fluids.
3. Reactive - Is unstable or undergoes rapid or violent chemical reaction with water or other materials such as cyanide plating wastes, waste bleaches and other waste oxidizers.
1. Ignitable - Combustible or flammable such as paint wastes, some degreasers and other solvents.
2. Corrosive - Burns the skin, corrodes metals or other materials such as battery acid, rust removers and acid or alkaline cleaning fluids.
3. Reactive - Is unstable or undergoes rapid or violent chemical reaction with water or other materials such as cyanide plating wastes, waste bleaches and other waste oxidizers.
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