{"id":50723,"date":"2014-02-07T07:59:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T13:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/?p=50723"},"modified":"2014-02-07T08:01:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T14:01:24","slug":"bismarck-passive-recycling-ends-to-make-way-for-new-single-sort-curbside-recycling-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/50723\/bismarck-passive-recycling-ends-to-make-way-for-new-single-sort-curbside-recycling-program","title":{"rendered":"Bismarck Passive Recycling Ends to Make Way for New Single Sort Curbside Recycling Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Via press release:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Bismarck\u2019s eighteen recycling collection sites are closing this week effective, Friday, February 7,<\/b>\u00a0in preparation for the new residential Single Sort Curbside Recycling Program starting mid-March.\u00a0 Jeff Heintz, Director of Public Works Service Operations said, \u201cOur baler building will be leased to Waste Management for transporting recyclables to their material recovery facility in Minneapolis.\u00a0 The existing baler equipment is being replaced by Waste Management.\u00a0 It will take approximately five weeks to transform the facility to a single sort recycling transfer site.\u00a0 During this time Waste Management will also be in receipt of over 12,000 recycling containers that will be used for the rollout of the Single Sort Curbside Recycling Program mid-March.\u00a0 There won\u2019t be enough room in the baler building to store the recyclables and change out the equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Homeowners in Bismarck are encouraged to save their recyclable items until the new containers are delivered to their homes, or if necessary, temporarily dispose of them with their garbage until the new program begins.\u00a0 The recycling drop sites will be reduced to nine locations when they resume in early April.\u00a0 The nine sites will then become single sort sites that will accept all of the same recyclables that can be placed in the new curbside containers.<\/p>\n<p>For more information visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.bismarck.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via press release:\u00a0 Bismarck\u2019s eighteen recycling collection sites are closing this week effective, Friday, February 7,\u00a0in preparation for the new residential Single Sort Curbside Recycling Program starting mid-March.\u00a0 Jeff Heintz, Director of Public Works Service Operations said, \u201cOur baler building will be leased to Waste Management for transporting recyclables to their material recovery facility in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[518],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bismarck-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}