Lake Mary trash is changing! Due to current legislation requiring the reduction of solid waste & increasing efforts to recycle, Lake Mary is taking the lead as the first Seminole County City to begin a new program with Waste Management.
The bad news is the rate is increasing from the current $15 rate to $17 but Waste Management has not had a rate increase in several years.
Residents will be receiving a new 64 gallon green container with a yellow lid that is designted for recycling only. You will keep your current trash container.
Trash & recycling pick up will be one day a week only (visit www.lakemaryfl.com to see your designated pick up day). The items you can recycle will increase with the intention of decreasing the amount of waste you generate. The City is currently sending a brochure in the mail to explain all of the details.
Items that can now be recycled include:
-uncontaminated pasteboard (cereal boxes, empty paper towel and toilet paper rolls, soda & beer boxes, tissue and gift boxes, pizza and shoe boxes)
-brown paper grocery bags (no wet strength material, wax or liners)
-corrugated cardboard (flattened & cut down to max. 3'x3')
-newspaper, supplements, magazines & catalogs
-printer/copier paper & junk mail
-milk, jiuce. soy & broth cartons
-plastic #1-7 (#'s on container bottom)
-glass bottles & jars (clear, green, brown)
-aluminum cans
-steel cans and tin household containers such as food cans
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