Fall Colors? Stay Green!

Been doing a lot of cleaning, purging, and sorting through things in your house these past months?? The City of Hilliard and the Environmental Sustainability Commission would like to help you dispose of some of these things in an environmentally friendly manner, especially since our Earth Day activities this past April were cancelled due to COVID-19.

So, for Hilliard School District residents only, on October 17, between 10 a.m. and noon, at the Hilliard Community Center, 3800 Veterans Memorial Drive, we will be collecting the following

**Note: for the safety of our volunteers and other residents, masks must be worn at all times while on city property.**

Paper Shredding: Office papers only. Newspapers, magazines, and cardboard should be placed in your recycle container for weekly curbside pickup. Each resident will be responsible for emptying their own boxes of office paper into the shredding toters (shredding will occur offsite at an accredited site). Each resident will be responsible for taking their empty boxes back with them. We will be checking the boxes for foreign material and will reject boxes if there is contamination. Each car may only have 3 “banker boxes” to unload. A banker box is roughly 16”L by 12”W by 10.5”H.

Electronic Waste: RenTek will collect electronic waste such as phones, computers, ink cartridges, gaming systems, keyboards/mice, laptops, wires & cables, stereos, and VCRs. Monitors, TVs, and printers may have a disposal fee. Unacceptable items: anything with Freon, no smoke detectors or fire extinguishers, no books or manuals, no media (tapes, CDs, etc.), no household or car batteries, and no appliances.

Polystyrene or Expanded Polystyrene (EPS), commonly known as Styrofoam: Packaging material, packing peanuts, and foam coolers. Please remove tape and paper. Only white “firm” EPS will be accepted. No expanded polyethylene, no foam sheets, no construction foam, and no foam food containers even if they have never touched food. Peanuts should be bagged separately from the EPS. FYI, some peanuts are actually biodegradable. You can test yours by putting a few in a glass of water. If they disintegrate, they are biodegradable and will not be accepted here, but you can safely melt them in water.

Again, this drop-off is for Hilliard School District residents only, masks must be worn at all times while on city property, and please follow the restrictions detailed above for smoother and faster drop-off lines. We reserve the right to refuse cars with unmasked people, and we will refuse items if contaminated with unacceptable materials. Please help us in helping divert material from the landfill by adhering to these few restrictions.

Finally, in the event of any public health changes, please check gogreenhilliard.com to ensure that the event is still occurring.