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Item A to Z: Aluminum Foil & other aluminum products such as pie plates, aluminum license plates, pots, poles, etc.
Where Collected? Blue recycling compactors at the Recycling Center, or at the Aluminum recycling area next to the Metal Roll-off at the Recycling Center.
Limits & Other Details: Can be placed in the recycling compactors; should be clean as possible with no heavy food content. Or, may be placed in the Aluminum recycling area next to the Metal Roll-off at the Recycling Center.
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? Sold by ecoMaine in the scrap metal markets.If deposited in the Aluminum recycling area at the Recycling Center, the Town of Cape Elizabeth sells it directly and receives a greater return.
Item A to Z: Appliances - Major White Goods - Refrigerators, Freezers, Air Conditioners, Dehumidifiers, Stoves, Washers, Dryers,Dishwashers and Hot Water Tanks.
Where Collected? Recycling Center - Refrigerators, Freezers, Air Conditioners and Dehumidifiers - on the ground beyond the concrete, stone and brick pile. Other white goods such as Clothes Washers and Dryers, Hot Water Tanks, Dishwashers (if mostly metal), and Stoves go in the Scrap Metal roll-off. Please pay attendant Before unloading.
Limits & Other Details: Microwave ovens are accepted next to the used oil igloo-no charge.
Fee Item? Yes. Please check fee schedule
What is done with this item? Delivered to metal recycler.
Item A to Z: Appliances - Small
Where Collected? Small electrical appliances in good working order can go to the Swap Shop, otherwise place in the Metal goods roll-off. For large appliances see the section on Appliances - Major - White Goods .
Limits & Other Details:
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? Delivered to metal recycler
Item A to Z: Bags - Paper or Plastic
Where Collected? Paper bags can be recycled in the blue recycling compactors at the Recycling Center. Plastic shopping bags CANNOT be recycled in the compactors, but many large grocery and retail stores have collection bins for recycling plastic bags. See plasticfilmrecycling.org/. Plastic "garbage bags" can not be recycled, should be used to contain trash and thrown into the trash compactor.
Limits & Other Details: Bags are a great example of the three R's - Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. You should Reduce your use of bags by refusing them when you can - carry the goods home without a bag if you can, or use a single bag for all your purchases. You can Reuse most bags often - carry a set to the grocery store when you shop so that you can avoid using new bags. Finally, when your bags are all used up, it is time to Recycle.
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? They're made into new plastic bags and other plastic products.
Item A to Z: Batteries - Automobile, Motorcycle, and Marine - lead/acid
Where Collected? Recycling Center - battery pallets near the Recycling Center office.
Limits & Other Details: Not including Alkaline or Rechargeable batteries.
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? Delivered to a metal recycling facility that ships them to New York, where the lead, acid and plastic are separated and sold for reuse.
Item A to Z: Batteries - Rechargeable - from cordless power tools, cellular and cordless phones, laptop computers, digital cameras, two-way radios, camcorders, and remote control toys. Look for the Battery Recycling seals on the battery.
Where Collected? Recycling Center - special Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation (RBRC) www.rbrc.org" box in the Recycling Center office.
Limits & Other Details: These should be taken out of dead appliances or similar items and taken to the Recycling Center office. These batteries can also be taken back to Radio Shack and some other stores.
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? RBRC pays the postage to have the collection box mailed to them where the batteries are recycled. A thermal recovery process reclaims the metals (nickel, iron, cadmium, lead, and cobalt) and prepares them for use in new products such as new batteries and stainless steel.
Item A to Z: Batteries - Alkaline - common household dry cell or flashlight batteries.
Where Collected? In the Trash Compactor.
Limits & Other Details: Since 1992 these have very little to no mercury content, are considered safe to dispose of in regular trash. The common sizes include: lantern, D, C, A, AA, AAA.
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? Trash Compactor contents are sent to EcoMaine for incineration.
Item A to Z: Button Batteries - used in watches, cameras and hearing aids
Where Collected? Collected at Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) collection day. Or, may be left in the Rechargeable Battery and Cell Phone box next to the office door at the Recycling Center.
Limits & Other Details:
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? Cape contracts with a consolidator licensed to facilitate a HHW collection. Button batteries are taken to a facility and incinerated in specialized furnaces where mercury and other metals are recovered.
Item A to Z: Books - reusable hardcover or paperback
Where Collected? Swap Shop at the Recycling Center.
Limits & Other Details: Books with reading life left - volunteers help to sort these books at the Swap Shop. The Friends of Thomas Memorial Library are also interested in new or like-new current fiction and non-fiction hardbound books. Call the library at 799-1720 for additional information about making such a donation. If you must throw away a book put it with all the other recyclables in the blue recycling compactors at the Recycling Center. It is not necessary to remove the covers.
Fee Item? No.
Item A to Z: Books - Outdated encyclopedias - any textbooks
Where Collected? Blue recycling compactors at the Recycling Center.
Limits & Other Details: Both hardcover and paperback books can be deposited with the recyclables in the recycling compactors. It is not necessary to remove the covers.
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? Recycled/Repulped.
Item A to Z: Bottles - returnable
Where Collected? Recycling Center - Bottle Shed near Swap Shop.
Limits & Other Details: All bottles, cans and other containers which are returnable and for which there is a Maine deposit.
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? Redeemed for deposit money - proceeds benefit Cape sports teams and other non-profit organizations. Interested groups can call Town Hall at 799-0881, or click here for information on participating in the Bottle Shed.
Item A to Z: Brush, trees, limbs, similar yard waste
Where Collected? Recycling Center - lower area past lumber pile - must see attendant first for access and to pay any appropriate fees.
Limits & Other Details: No tree stumps. Stumps contain dirt and rocks which dull or even stop the chipping blades.
Fee Item? Yes. Please check fee schedule
What is done with this item? The town hires a private contractor who chips the material on site then hauls it to one of the biomass fueled generating facilities in Maine where it is burned for electricity.
Item A to Z: Bubble Wrap
Where Collected? The Thomas Memorial Library will accept small bubble wrap for reuse packaging interlibrary loan materials.
Limits & Other Details: Bubble wrap and styrofoam packing materials should NOT be put in the blue recycling compactors at the Recycling Center. If not destined for reuse, they should be thrown in the trash.
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? Reused for packing merchandise for shipping.
Item A to Z: Cans, Bottles, other containers (including empty aerosol containers such as spray paint, spray starch, PAM, etc. Please be sure the pepper spray can is empty!).All plastic containers with a recycle symbol on the bottom(1-7), including empty oil,empty paint,empty spackling compound, buckets, plant pots, and storage tubs.
Where Collected? Blue recycling compactors at the Recycling Center.
Limits & Other Details: Please remember to rinse and flatten all plastic and metal containers, if possible. Do not recycle caps and unmarked lids (usually a different kind of plastic). No need to remove labels. If it is clean enough for your breezeway, it's clean enough for ecoMaine.
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? Sent to ecoMaine for recycling. Waste plastic and metals are sold to scrap brokers who supply manufacturers. Glass is currently crushed for paving aggregate.
Item A to Z: Cardboard - corrugated.
Where Collected? Blue recycling compactors at the Recycling Center.
Limits & Other Details: Nice but not necessary to flatten all boxes and other corrugated containers to maximize container capacity. Pizza boxes are ok, but no pizza please. No waxed cardboard such as might be used for fruit and meat boxes.
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? A private hauler picks up the cardboard and takes it to ecomaine where it is baled and sold in the scrap cardboard market. Most goes to mills in Canada or in China where it is converted into new cardboard products.
Item A to Z: Chemicals & Solvents
Where Collected? Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) collection, held in the spring at the Cape Elizabeth Public Works Building, 10 Cooper Drive.
Limits & Other Details: Please Refer to the Household Hazardous Waste page on this web site for guidance.
Fee Item?
What is done with this item? Collected by a licensed hazardous-waste collection company.
Item A to Z: Christmas Trees
Where Collected? Recycling Center - Right after Christmas at the leaf/grass drop off area; all other times with brush in the lower area. Confirm with attendant.
Limits & Other Details: No wreaths collected due to wire rings. Wreaths and garland can be disposed of in the household trash compactor.
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? The Town of Cape Elizabeth Public Works Crew chips the Christmas Trees. Those chips are then available to Cape Elizabeth residents at no charge.
Item A to Z: Cement, concrete, stone, brick, cement board, asphalt paving.
Where Collected? Recycling Center - deposited on a pile next to the Refrigerators.
Limits & Other Details: See attendant first for large quantities.
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? Public Works delivers this material to a private contractor who crushes and sizes it for use as sub-grade road aggregate.
Item A to Z: Clothes
Where Collected? Recycling Center-If still usable, place in Goodwill containers near Bottle Shed.
Limits & Other Details: If not in good condition or reusable, but clean, may still be deposited in bins to be made into rags.
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? Goodwill and the Salvation Army will repair and resell some clothes and sell others as rags.
Item A to Z: Composting at Home
Where Collected?
Limits & Other Details: See University of Maine Cooperative Extension Composting Bulletin (pdf format)
Fee Item?
What is done with this item?
Item A to Z: Computer Monitors
Where Collected? Recycling Center
Limits & Other Details: Computer monitors contain large amounts of lead and are considered Universal Waste. As such they can no longer be accepted at the Swap Shop, even if in good working order - instead they will be accepted at the Recycling Center through a program with Goodwill/Dell. However if you can't make it to the Recycling Center when it is open, there are other options available: Riverside Recycling at 910 Riverside, Portland. 797-6200. They charge $2.50 for a computer monitor, $4.00 for a non-console television, $17.50 for a console television.
Fee Item? $3 per monitor.
What is done with this item? Goodwill Industries has scheduled pickups at Cape twice a week.
Item A to Z: Furniture - Sofas, chairs,tables,etc.
Where Collected? If in good reusable condition, may be put in the Swap Shop; otherwise, place wooden items in scrap wood pile and stuffed furniture in the trash compactor. No Mattresses ever in the Swap Shop!
Limits & Other Details: Please don't put furniture items in the Swap Shop unless it really has more life.
Fee Item? Yes. Please check fee schedule
What is done with this item?
Item A to Z: Furniture, other Household Items in good shape
Where Collected? Swap Shop building.
Limits & Other Details: Please, NO broken or non-working items. No one comes in to fix these broken items, they just become a disposal problem.
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? Usable items can be reused and enjoyed by other Cape residents.
Item A to Z: Gasoline, Kerosene
Where Collected? Collected during annual HHW event. Can also be taken to Clean Harbors at 17 Main St., South Portland. 799-8111. Please call for the applicable disposal fee.
Limits & Other Details: The best way to dispose of gasoline is to empty it into your lawn mower or car, and use it, or give to a neighbor willing to do this. Otherwise you should store it safely for disposal at the annual HHW collection. same applies to kerosene but don't put it in gas powered machinery!
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? Cape hires a licensed hazardous-waste collection company to collect and recycle/dispose of gasoline and all other HHW materials.
Item A to Z: Gift Wrap
Where Collected? Blue recycling compactors at the Recycling Center.
Limits & Other Details: No foil wrap, please. Gift wrap is recycled in the compactors.
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? Recycled by ecomaine, made most often into the internal corrugated part of corrugated cardboard.
Item A to Z: Glass
Where Collected? Blue recycling compactors at the Recycling Center.
Limits & Other Details: Clear and colored glass bottles and jars.
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? Recycled by ecomaine, made into new types of glass products, or crushed for gravel substitute.
Item A to Z: Household Hazardous Waste (HHW)
Where Collected? Cape Elizabeth Public Works Facility - collected during annual HHW Event held in the spring.
Limits & Other Details: For complete details on what is considered HHW and how to handle these materials please see our Household Hazardous Waste page.
Fee Item? No fee for items collected at annual HHW event.
What is done with this item? Cape hires a licensed hazardous-waste collection company to facilitate the HHW collection and recycle/dispose of all collected materials.
Item A to Z: Household rubbish, trash
Where Collected? Recycling Center - deposited in the Trash Compactor.
Limits & Other Details: Whatever cannot be recycled elsewhere - ask attendant if you have questions.
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? Sent to ecomaine for incineration to generate electricity that is sold to Constellation Energy Group. Constellation is a Maryland-based Fortune 500 Company that owns energy-related businesses. Through a subsidiary, Constellation supplies power to customers of Central Maine Power.
Item A to Z: Insulation: Fiberglass bats, cellulose, styrofoam and similar rigid insulation should all be deposited in the trash compactor.
Where Collected? Recycling Center - Trash Compactor.
Limits & Other Details: The only exception is Asbestos insulation which cannot be disposed of anywhere at the Transfer Station. If you suspect you have any Asbestos materials to dispose of , call Abatement Professionals in Westbrook 878-5922, or Clean Harbors in South Portland 799-8111 ext.314. They will charge a fee.
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? Sent to ecomaine for incineration with household rubbish and trash.
Item A to Z: Leaves, grass clippings, other green yard/garden waste
Where Collected? Recycling Center - leaf drop off area
Limits & Other Details: If bagged, must be in compostable (paper) bags, no plastic bags allowed. Please do not leave any branches, twigs or woody material which is difficult to compost. These belong at the brush pile.
Fee Item? No but lawn service companies must see the attendant for access.
What is done with this item? Composted at Recycling Center by Wm. H. Jordan Farm who sells the compost at their Wells Road location here in Cape Elizabeth.
Item A to Z: Lumber-demo wood, plywood, particle board, wood furniture, etc.
Where Collected? Recycling Center - either at "small amount of woodwaste" pile, or in the demo wood pile. Check with attendant Before going to demo wood pile.
Limits & Other Details: No treated lumber of any type is accepted. No creosote treated lumber, i.e. railroad ties.
Fee Item? Yes. Please check fee schedule
What is done with this item? Residents can pick the lumber pile for reusable wood but be cautious and watch for nails!! The town hires a private contractor who chips the material on site then hauls it to one of the biomass fueled generating facilities in Maine where it is burned for electricity.
Item A to Z: Magazines
Where Collected? Blue recycling compactors at the Recycling Center.
Limits & Other Details: Combined with other recyclables in the compactors.
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? Recycled by ecomaine who sells it to waste paper dealers for ultimate repulping and made into new paper.
Item A to Z: Motor Oil - used and hydraulic fluid(oil)
Where Collected? Recycling Center - The domed, yellow 'igloo' located near the Transfer Station building. Leave filled containers for attendant to transfer into 'igloo'.
Limits & Other Details: Used motor oil, hydraulic oil accepted at no charge. No other lubricants or chemicals are accepted. Take container back for re-use in collecting more oil, or clean thoroughly for recycling in blue recycling compactors at the Recycling Center.
Fee Item? No
What is done with this item? The oil is collected by a private hauler and shipped to a facility where it is filtered, tested and blended for resale as industrial fuel. Much of it is bought by paper mills in Maine.
Item A to Z: Newspaper
Where Collected? Blue recycling compactors at the Recycling Center.
Limits & Other Details: Can include all types of newspaper, including glossy advertising inserts.
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? Sent to ecomaine; Recycled back into newsprint.
Item A to Z: Paint - Latex and Oil-Based
Where Collected? Recycling Center for Latex and HHW collection for Oil-Based.
Limits & Other Details: The best way to dispose of paint is to paint something and then recycle the empty can with scrap metal. Otherwise, Latex paint can be deposited in the trash hopper. It's best to let the latex paint dry out as much as possible but it's not mandatory. Oil-based paint and any acrylic paint not labeled as latex should be stored and brought to a Household Hazardous Waste collection.
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? The Oil based paint collected at HHW day by a licensed hazardous-waste collection company is blended with other flammable solvents, etc. into a fuel for the specialized incinerators CHE operates (out of state) to neutralize other hazardous wastes.
Item A to Z: Paper
Where Collected? Blue recycling compactors at the Recycling Center.
Limits & Other Details: Can include: Newspapers, magazines, junk mail, white and colored paper, milk and juice cartons, brown paper (craft) bags, magazines, phone books, hardcover books, paperbacks, catalogues, computer paper, manila folders, gift wrap(including tissue paper) and other clean paper from home or office. Window envelopes are okay. No carbon paper, waxed paper, photographs, plastic coated paper, paper contaminated with food, paper towels or tissues. (Paper towels can go in the food-waste compost bins)
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? Recycled by ecomaine to be repulped and make new paper or newsprint.
Item A to Z: Paperboard
Where Collected? Blue recycling compactors at the Recycling Center.
Limits & Other Details: Cereal and other food boxes, shirt and shoe boxes, toilet paper tubes, egg cartons, juice boxes and similar, writing pad backs and similar.
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? Sent to ecomaine for separation and recycling; most paperboard is remade into a liner material for corrugated boxes, or the internal corrugated part of corrugated cardboard.
Item A to Z: Pesticides - insecticides and herbicides
Where Collected? Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) collections, or take to Clean Harbors, 17 Main St., South Portland 799-8111.
Limits & Other Details: Pesticides includes both insecticides and herbicides. Refer to the Household Hazardous Waste page on this web site for guidance.
Item A to Z: Phone Books
Where Collected? Blue recycling compactors at the Recycling Center.
Limits & Other Details: No.
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? Recycled by ecomaine to be repulped and make new paper or newsprint.
Item A to Z: Plastics - containers and other - All #1 thru #7 plastic containers are now acceptable. The exceptions are #6 Styrofoam food trays, styrofoam beverage cups and plastic covers. Plastic grocery and shopping bags are not accepted, but some larger stores do take them for recycling - http://www.plasticfilmrecycling.org/
Where Collected? Blue recycling compactors at the Recycling Center.
Limits & Other Details: Clear or colored - stamped with recycling logo and a number 1 thru 7. Note: Motor oil containers may now be recycled. No need to remove labels. If it is clean enough for your breezeway, it's clean enough for EcoMaine. No Styrofoam, bubblewrap, packing "peanuts", plastic sheeting, grocery or shopping bags, or shrinkwrap. No tarps, toys, pools or pool liners, plastic or pvc pipe, garden hoses or vinyl siding.
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? Sent to ecomaine for recycling. Milk jugs are palletized and used to make many other plastic items. Colored plastic used to make pipe. PET used to make carpet liner and fleece items.
Item A to Z: Porcelain - sinks, toilets, etc.
Where Collected? Recycling Center - on a pile between the cement/concrete area and the roll-off container for scrap metal area labeled Sinks, Toilets, Windows, Mirrors, Doors with Glass.
Limits & Other Details:
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? Public Works delivers this material to a private contractor who crushes and sizes it for use as sub-grade road aggregate.
Item A to Z: Propane Gas Cylinders-30 lb.,20 lb. and smaller cylinders are acceptable .These are the type used for barbeque grills, camp stoves and lights, soldering torches.Larger 100 lb. tanks( for home heating and appliances) are Not accepted anywhere at the recycling center. They should be returned to a propane heating supply company.
Where Collected? Recycling Center-on corner past compactor/office building.
Limits & Other Details: Turn the valve completely off. If there is any propane left in the tank DO NOT open the valve and vent it into the air. Balloon gas (helium) cylinders that cannot be refilled should be completely emptied and placed in the scrap metal bin. Do Not throw Any Size Propane Tank in the Metal Bin.
Fee Item? Please check fee schedule
What is done with this item? A tank recycler removes the accumulated tanks at no cost to the town. They bleed the gas from the tanks and sell it. About 75% of the tanks are reconditioned (new valves, cleaned, painted, tested) and certified as requalified then put back in service. The remaining 25% are disassembled and the various metals -- steel, brass, etc. -- are recycled.
Item A to Z: Rocks, Dirt, Sand
Where Collected? Recycling Center - Rocks and Sand go in the cement and concrete rubble pile and Dirt with the leaves and grass clippings.
Limits & Other Details: No.
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? Public Works delivers clean rocks and gravel (not with a lot of dirt), along with the cement, concrete, bricks and porcelain to a private contractor who crushes and sizes it for use as sub-grade road aggregate.
Item A to Z: Roofing Shingles - asphalt, tarpaper and rollroofing
Where Collected? Recycling Center - special roll-off container for shingles.
Limits & Other Details: These shingles go into the roll-off marked "Asphalt Shingles" in the upper area (the raised pavement area past the leaf/grass drop-off area). No ice and water shield, wood, metal, or trash.
Fee Item? Yes. Please check fee schedule. See attendant before unloading.
What is done with this item? Public Works delivers this to a private contractor where it is ground up and blended into their paving hot mix or used as sub-grade road aggregate.
Item A to Z: Scrap Metal
Where Collected? Recycling Center - special roll-off container for metal goods
Limits & Other Details: Accepts any ferrous or non-ferrous metal goods. No motor vehicles or large sections of motor vehicles. Heating oil tanks must be cut in half and wiped out. Fifty-five (55) gal drums must have a hole at least 1ft in diameter cut in them and be wiped out.
Fee Item? Yes. Please check fee schedule
What is done with this item? Delivered to a metal recycler.
Item A to Z: Scrap Wood-lumber, fencing, cabinets, wooden furniture,plywood,particle board, countertops, etc.
Where Collected? Recycling Center - must see attendant to pay fee and gain entry to demo wood pile.Or at the "Small Amounts of Woodwaste" pile next to the concrete & rubble pile.
Limits & Other Details: Residents can pick the lumber pile for reusable wood, but be cautious and watch for nails!! Creosote treated wood, e.g. railroad ties, and any pressure treated wood cannot be recycled. Those items may be taken to Commercial Paving and Recycling Co. of Scarborough, 883-3325, to the Riverside Recycling Facility in Portland, 797-6200, or kept until Household Hazardous Waste Day, held in the spring
Fee Item? Yes. Please check fee schedule
What is done with this item? The town hires a private contractor who chips the material on site then hauls it to one of the biomass fueled generating facilities in Maine where it is burned for electricity.
Item A to Z: Sheetrock
Where Collected? Recycling Center - Special sheetrock roll-off container near the scrap metal roll-off container.
Limits & Other Details: Only clean sheetrock is accepted. No plaster and lath. Plaster goes in the trash hopper and wood lath should be taken to the scrap wood pile.
Fee Item? Yes. Please check fee schedule
What is done with this item? Public Works hires a private hauler to take the sheetrock to a private contractor where it is ground up. Some is added to CPR's composting operation. Most is added to reclaimed oil-containing soil where the sheetrock absorbs the oil and reduces the pH. This soil is then added to other reclaimed aggregate and used as construction underlayment at sites such as the Portland Jetport and at the 295 overpass project at Western Ave. in South Portland.
Item A to Z: Stove Ash
Where Collected? Recycling Center - at the far end , near the "Asphalt Shingle" roll-off.
Limits & Other Details: Any stove ash is collected, including wood and coal ash.
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? Disposed of by Public Works.
Item A to Z: Stumps - tree and shrub
Where Collected? Not in Cape Elizabeth but accepted at two locations run by Commercial Paving and Recycling Co. of Scarborough. One is at the Community Recycling Center, 8 Runway Rd. in Scarborough (off Pleasant Hill Road), 885-9093; and the other is at Portland's Riverside Recycling Facility 910 Riverside St., 797-6200. They will both charge a fee.
Limits & Other Details: Not accepted at Recycling Center.
Fee Item? Charged at Commercial Disposal sites
What is done with this item? Shredded for use as an erosion control material and/or biomass product.
Item A to Z: Televisions - Not accepted at the Recycling Center
Where Collected? Cape Elizabeth Public Works Garage - collected during Household Hazardous Waste and E-Waste/Universal Waste events ONLY.
Limits & Other Details: Televisions and computer monitors contain large amounts of lead and are considered Universal Waste. As such they can no longer be accepted at the Swap Shop. However if you just can't wait there are other options available. Old TVs and computer monitors can be taken to:Riverside Recycling at 910 Riverside, Portland. 797-6200. They charge $4.00 for non-console, $17.50 for console model TV's, and $2.50 for computer monitors.
Fee Item? No fee for items collected at annual HHW event.
What is done with this item? Cape usually hires a licensed hazardous-waste collection company to collect and recycle/dispose of everything brought to the HHW collection.
Item A to Z: Thermostats & Thermometers
Where Collected? Recycling Center Office-Please give Thermostats to attendant to recieve a reward coupon for a $5.00 rebate.
No reward for Thermometers, but they will be properly recycled.
Limits & Other Details: Thermostats and Thermometers contain Mercury ,are considered Universal Waste, and may no longer be discarded in the trash.
Fee Item? No
What is done with this item? Thermostats are recycled thru the Thermostat Recovery Program initiated by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.
Item A to Z: Tires
Where Collected? Recycling Center - Place behind used oil container. See attendant for deposit location
Limits & Other Details: Reasonable amounts accepted.
Fee Item? Yes. Please check fee schedule
What is done with this item? Collected by private hauler and shredded for inclusion with wood chips and liquid asphalt.
Item A to Z: Windows
Where Collected? At the Window/Sinks/etc. area
Limits & Other Details: All windows with wood, metal or vinyl clad frames may be recycled. Screen windows included.
Fee Item? No.
What is done with this item? Public Works removes the glass, which is picked up with the porcelain items by a private hauler, who uses it for sub-grade road aggregate. Wood frames go to the scrap wood demolition pile, metal frames to the scrap metal container and vinyl clad frames to the trash hopper.