North Salt Lake begins curbside recycling in March

NORTH SALT LAKE — A veritable army of blue recycling cans is ready to be delivered to North Salt Lake residents' homes.

During the next two weeks, city crews will be delivering the cans, which will be emptied on a biweekly basis on residents' normal garbage days.

The service will cost residents $3.75 per month, and cans only will be delivered to the 3,200 homes that didn't opt out of the program by the Nov. 25 deadline.

A schedule, as well as a list of acceptable and unacceptable items for recycling, will be delivered with the cans. But both documents also can be downloaded from the city's Web site, www.nslcity.com.

Acceptable items include newspapers, magazines, mail and junk mail, cardboard, paperboard, No. 1 and No. 2 plastics, aluminum cans and cookware.

Unacceptable items include glass, food or liquid waste, diapers, concrete, dirt, motor oil, hazardous waste, green waste, construction materials, furniture, electronics and clothing.

As of Feb. 25, the city no longer will have recycling bins for plastics at Hatch Park.

North Salt Lake is the fifth city in Davis County to offer curbside recycling to residents. Woods Cross and Bountiful started mandatory programs. They were followed by Centerville, which started its opt-out program Sept. 1, and Farmington, which began its program Nov. 30.

Fruit Heights will restart its curbside green-waste program in March.

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