Delivery Of Porta- Potties To Start In Joplin

Delivery of carts to Joplin residents who have signed up for curbside recycling begins Monday. There had been 916 customers sign up for recycling pickup as of Friday, out of the city’s 16,500 residential trash customers, said Mary Ann Phillips, the city’s recycling coordinator. Those subscribing to the recycling service have to be checked to verify that they live in the city limits to make them eligible for service under the city’s franchised trash hauling agreement, Phillips said. The recycling carts will have a lighter blue lid to distinguish them from the blue carts residents use for trash pickup. The carts will be provided by the city’s contracted trash hauler, Republic Services. Recycling pickup will start on June 1, the city said in a statement, and the recycling will be picked up on the same day as a customer’s trash but at a different time by a different truck. Cost of the recycling service is $4.75 per month added to the $11.73 monthly trash bill, making the bill $16.48 for those who signed up for recycling. The billings are made on city sewer statements and in the month after service starts; for instance, June service will be billed in July. It is not too late to subscribe to the curbside pickup of recycling items. Residents may sign up for the optional service by calling Republic Services at 800-431-1507 or 800-627-1717 or they can go online atwww.republicservices.com/Joplin. No glass or styrofoam will be accepted in the curbside recycling. Residents can recycle: • Clean and dry aluminum cans, and foils. • Steel, tin and empty aerosol cans. • Plastic No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 7 bottles and buckets. • Paper and newspaper. • Cardboard and chipboard. Cardboard boxes must be flattened. Holiday schedule There will be no trash pickup on Monday, May 30, because Republic Services will be closed in observanc