Coppell, Texas Continues Its Work To Be Green!

Coppell, Texas Continues Its Work To Be Green!
Keep Coppell Beautiful - Clean Coppell 2009 Event!

Clean Coppell 2009 is rapidly approaching! This is the city's largest cleanup event of the year. Clean Coppell will kick off its cleanups on Saturday, March 14 and continue through Saturday, March 28. Gather your friends, family, business or organization and clean up a piece of the city - participate in a cleanup, work with the Friends of the Coppell Nature Park, assist a senior citizen with their yard work. For more information and to download a registration form, click here. Hurry! Registration ends March 4!

Rita and I are very excited and thankful to our city for the new 65-gallon recycling carts! They are wonderful!

Each single-family home in Coppell was given a cart earlier this month. These blue recycling carts replaced our small 18-gallon recycling bins.
Recycling diverts waste from the landfill to save resources, energy, landfill space and reduce pollution. The Recycling Service is included in the Refuse Rate so we are encouraged to take advantage of the curbside recycling service using the residential recycle cart.
Coppell’s goals are to increase the number of Coppell households that recycle from 50% to 65% and to double our diversion rate. The diversion rate is the amount of waste (in pounds) that is recycled instead of going into a landfill. We can make our cart count by taking advantage of the larger containers and the new convenience that the new carts provide.

Recycling Guidelines for Coppell, Texas
Waste Management, 972-315-5400, provides residential Curbside collection service.
We place our recycling cart at the end of our driveway for once a week pick-up on our recycle day. Recycling Zone Maps are available from the Coppell Water Billing Department at 255 Parkway Blvd. or click here for the printable version of the city’s recycling zone map.
We use only our recycle cart provided by Waste Management. Other containers are collected as trash.

ACCEPTABLE RECYCLABLES FOR SINGLE STREAM CURBSIDE PICK-UP ARE:
Paper - All paper can be recycled, including magazines, cardboard, paperboard and phonebooks.
Plastics #1-7 (Number on bottom recycle triangle) - Remove bottle caps. No plastic bags, styrofoam, juice boxes, milk cartons, straws, egg cartons or meat trays.
Aluminum: Cans only - No aluminum foil.
Metal: Tin cans, empty aerosol cans, empty paint cansGlass - All colors, food and drink containers only. No mirrors/windows.