ThisWeek CW 08/20/2015

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City officials are hoping that additional recycling centers will help alleviate the problem of littering and overfilled containers in Canal Winchester.

Mayor Michael Ebert said an additional freestanding recycling container has been installed in the public parking area at Waste Management’s Canal Winchester facility, 1006 W. Walnut St.

The city has also doubled the size of the recycling container at the downtown recycling center located in the public parking area behind the Interurban Building and Chase Bank, 8 S. High St.

“We’re encouraging our residents to use all recycling containers as intended and not to litter by discarding materials on the ground,” Ebert said. “If a container is full when you attempt to use it, we ask that you please return at another time.”

The new recycling containers will be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

“We think that the additional containers should help keep people from just leaving recycling outside of the container, which creates a mess,” Ebert said.

“One thing that has changed recently is that Waste Management is no longer accepting glass for recycling because they said the market for that has bottomed out. Instead, they want people to just put their glass in the regular garbage.”

According to Waste Management officials, the company will monitor and empty its on-site container daily and will note any service abuses or materials left outside the container; inappropriate dumping may result in Waste Management removing the container.

The downtown containers are emptied twice on Mondays and Fridays and once on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. No pickup service is provided on weekends.

A list of accepted recyclables is posted at both locations and on the Waste Management website atwm.com.