Recycling
Gibson Area Recycling
In the parking area behind City Hall
8:00-11:30 AM every first and third Saturday
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Accepted Material |
Unaccepted Material |
| Plastics Plastic containers |
Plastics No toys, oil containers, plastic bags, buckets, lawn furniture, vinyl siding, food wrappers |
| Aluminum Aluminum cans, foil, cookware |
Aluminum None |
| Tin Tin cans, aerosol cons, empty paint cans, wire hangers. |
Tin No propane cans |
| Paper Newspaper, magazines, catalogs, phone books, office paper, paperbacks |
Paper No hardback books, wrapping paper, windowed envelopes, construction paper, carbon paper |
| Cardboard Flattened boxes-corrugated, pressed board (cereal/gift boxes), paper bags |
Cardboard No wax board, juice or milk cartons, cardboard containing metal or plastic |
Miscellaneous unaccepted items:
Styrofoam of any kind, Appliances, Electronics, Furniture, Lawn and Farm Equipment, Medical supplies, Clothing, Garbage, Construction materials, Automotive batteries.
No Glass of any kind can be accepted
$15 residents of Gibson City, $20 non-residents
$10 senior (60+) residents, $15 non-residents
Passes can be purchased at Moyer District Library or you may contact Karen Kummerow at 217-784-5919.
Here is a site that has a great deal of good information about recycling specifically and taking care of the environment in general. The Gibson Area Recycling Program and the City of Gibson are not associated with the site in any way. It just contains some useful and interesting information.
http://www.world.org/weo/recycle
Map of our location - see below
