In Kempwood, recycling opportunities come practically to your doorstep with city programs for household recyclables, yard waste, and tree limbs.
Automated Pickup
Kempwood is part of the City of Houston's Automated Recycling
pilot program as of 2010.
Automated Recycling is offered every other week on regular trash days. See the Calendar for recycling days.
Place recyclable items in the large rolling green bin provided for
your house, and place the bin at the curb for pickup by the recycling
service trucks. The bins have identification tags.
If you choose to register your bin,
you may participate in the RecycleBank incentive program.
Acceptable items for recycling include:
- Plastics - #1-5, and #7 plastics
(not toys, packing materials, flower pots, plastic bags, or plastic furniture) - glass bottles and jars
- aluminum and tin cans and aerosol cans
- cardboard (flattened)
- newspapers, magazines, catalogs
- telephone books
- envelopes, home and office paper, mail (no dark colors or foil)
Remember to empty, rinse and drain all containers.
#6 plastics (polystyrene, Styrofoam) are not accepted for recycling through the city program.
Motor Oil
The City also accepts used motor oil. Place the oil next to your recycling bin in original bottles or in another non-chemical screw-top bottle up to 1 gallon. Up to 3 bottles may be put out at a time.
Yard Trimmings
Yard trimmings are collected weekly on regular trash days.
Grass clippings, leaves and twigs must be bagged and placed near the garbage container.
Yard trimmings mixed with paper, plastic or any other type of waste will not be collected.
Starting in 2010 the city requires compostable bags for yard trimmings.
Approved bags are marked with the seal as shown here.
Tree branches may be put in bundles up to 4 feet long and 18" in diameter, not weighing more than 50 pounds.
Larger limbs should be put out on tree waste collection days (see below).
Tree Waste
Tree Waste
is natural wood waste such as tree limbs, branches, and stumps.
(Furniture, lumber, and other wood products are considered Junk
Waste.)
Tree Waste is collected on the 2nd Friday once every other month
(January, March, May, July, September, and November) alternating with
Junk Waste.
It is taken to a recycling facility to be rendered into mulch.
(Tree Waste can be put out on Junk Waste days, but it will be
landfilled instead of recycled.)
Other recycling ideas
- Car batteries may be recycled for free at many auto parts suppliers such as AutoZone.
- Small rechargeable batteries are accepted for recycling at RadioShack, Lowe's, Batteries Plus, and many other places.
- Thin plastic shopping bags may be recycled at H-E-B stores, Lowe's, or other places.
- Compact fluorescent bulbs may be brought to many stores such as Ikea, Home Depot or Lowe's for recycling.
- The city offers Christmas tree recycling at several locations seasonally.
- If you're buying a new appliance, some stores will pick up and recycle the old one. Jaco Environmental offers cash for old refrigerators, working or not, and will also accept air conditioners.
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