The city of Buda began its new single-stream recycling program this week.
The city’s waste collector, Texas Disposal Systems, has been delivering new 96-gallon recycle carts to Buda residents, and the old 18-gallon bins were scheduled to be picked up Wednesday. Recycling will now be collected as single stream, mixing all accepted recyclables together in one cart that will be collected every other week. Trash will continue to be collected weekly.
The list of acceptable materials allows customers to put all their recyclables, unsorted, into the larger cart. These materials include:
Paper: including junk mail, newspapers, magazines;
Cardboard: including cereal boxes, shipping boxes, shoe boxes;
Containers: empty containers made of plastic, metal, aluminum and glass, including bottles and cans.
