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Recycling Advisory Committee Links

Recycling Advisory Committee Legal Notices
This section provides an archive and record of recent and past Legal Notices for the Recycling Advisory Committee, including notices for meetings and events that have already taken place:

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We also welcome comments on the Town's web site and other issues!

Opt in to the County's Reverse Emergency Notification System!
 An anonymous donor has funded the purchase of a Reverse Emergency Notification System for Grant County. Register your phones, cell phones and email addresses to receive alerts of evacuations, emergency events, road closures and other significant events. The link below will take you to Grant County's Reverse Emergency Notification System for the County. Learn more!

Silver City has updated its annual Parks and Activity Directory, a booklet with information for all ages about all kinds of activity opportunities available in Silver City. Learn more!

Learn more about wildfire dangers and how to create defensible spaces around your home, business and property. Learn more!

Sanitation Schedule
Schedules for the Town of Silver City recycling and refuse pick-up vary on some national holidays. See if your pick-up is effected!
Other useful sites:
Check out these sites for information on living, working and doing business in Silver City, Grant County, and New Mexico.
Town of Silver City
Box 1188
Silver City, NM 88062
575.538.3731

Silver City Recycles -- and saves!

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Where does our recycled material go? See a video!

Recycling is strongly encouraged by the Town and is free of charge. The Town has adopted the goal of reaching a 33% recycling rate per Resolution No. 2012-21 .

If you are a Silver City resident or business owner and your trash is collected by the town of Silver City, then you are eligible for curbside recycling services provided under contract with Southwest Solid Waste Authority (SWSWA). To get started, call SWSWA at 388-8051 to request a free bin. You may also take recyclable materials to the convenience station at the landfill at 318 Ridge Road. In case of problems with recycling pick-up, call 388-8051. If you have problems with your trash collection, call Public Works at 388-4640.

ITEMS THAT CAN BE RECYCLED VIA THE NEW SINGLE-STREAM RECYCLING PROGRAM

In Your Recycling Bin:

  • Phone books
  • Paperboard (cereal, snack and beverage boxes), milk and juice cartons
  • Newspaper, magazines, and books
  • Paper of all kinds, including colored paper, envelopes (even with glassine windows), and junk mail
  • Aluminum, steel, and tin cans, foil, and clean pots and pans
  • Plastics #1-5 and 7 (soda bottles, laundry soap containers, milk jugs, water bottles, yogurt and butter tubs, plastic clamshells). NO STYROFOAM!
  • Small electronic devices (cell phones, ipods, gameboys, laptops, CPUs, etc.) NO TVs or monitors!


Underneath Your Recycling Bin:

  • Flattened (non-greasy) corrugated cardboard


In Bags Beside Your Recycling Bin:

  • All types of glass bottles and jars (with lids removed)

For additional details download our PDF information sheet.


Learn more
about how Silver City's recycled materials are handled by Friedman Recycling in El Paso:
 
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