Guidelines for Curbside Services

 

Routes: 

• Your physical address determines your route (Delta, Montrose & Gunnison Counties)
• TEXT (or call) your name and address to 970-361-5451 to be placed on a route

Rates per pick-up:

Household	$15-$25
Office/Business	$30-$60
Combined Household	$30-$40
Household/Office Combined	$30-$60
Commercial (per arrangement)	$40-$100+
Dump Fee (if needed)	$20-$100+
All Electronics Are Extra (including chords)	$0.65/lb
Donations (home items, clothes, books, furniture, etc.)	Included
Scrap Metal	Included

Payment Methods include: cash, check, or Venmo

Mail a check to:

Rice Recycling

1553 G 86 Ln.

Delta, CO 81416

Venmo: @RiceRecycling (Payment-between-friends)

Paypal: corscorp@yahoo.com (friends and family)

Zelle ricerecycling@gmail.com

Included in services:

• Donations
• Some small containers for sorting
• Wellness checks
• Neighborhood watch
• Courtesy text reminders

SORTING

Accurate sorting is important. Efficient recycling ensures it actually gets recycled, and it keeps the rates down for everybody.

Trailer-Ready Sorting Method:

• Plastic containers #1 & #2/Steel Cans/Aluminum Pans – Commingled (no lids)
• Glass–boxed or small containers
• Aluminum Cans – bagged or small containers
• Cardboard – broken down, flattened and stacked

DO NOT SMASH OR FOLD – see requirements

• Paperboard (broken down and flattened) and paper – boxed or bagged
• Shredded Paper – bagged separately
• Donations – boxed or bagged
• Scrap and Electronics can be loose

Requirements:

• Clean, Dry & Safe from the weather (wind, rain, snow)
• No Trash or food (sorting trash is not part of the service)
  • There will be a trash fee of $10 if we have to sort no-nos (See Absolute No-Nos).
• Break Down Cardboard & Paperboard Flat
  • Do not smash or fold. Open the bottoms as you would open the tops
  • Large pieces must be cut down to the size of a pallet or smaller
• Empty All Liquids (water, beer, wine, milk, soap, etc.)
  • Dirty recycling goes in the trash.
• Empty & pinch/crush aluminum cans
• Contain paper separately
  • Shredded paper has to be bagged and tied separately regardless
  • Brown Packing Paper goes with cardboard
  • Newspaper/blank newsprint-like packing paper goes with paper
• Tie bags
• Containers must be easy to lift when full
• Keep recycling separate from garbage pick-up/mark containers
• No drop-offs

Keep aluminum separate and steel with plastics. If you are unsure: a magnet will stick to steel but it will not stick to aluminum.

Your Choices Include:

• How often (monthly, twice monthly, or quarterly)
• Containers ( you provide your own or just some boxes I can take with me)

Donations: 

Donatable items to be recycled can include (but are not limited to): clothes, toys, books, furniture, building materials, landscaping and gardening, scrap metal, food, etc.

Donation destinations include: Salvation Army/MADA/Pregnancy Resource Center/Abraham Connection/ReStore/Public Library/Tiny Libraries, or your choice

Absolute No-Nos:

• No needles/razor blades/panes of glass
• No dirt, filth, or food residue whatsoever
• No nested items – all items must be free from other items
• No lids
• No broken glass
• No tempered glass (canning jars, empty candles, broken kitchenware)
• No tissue paper/wrapping paper/gift bags (paper towels, shoebox tissue, facial tissue, etc.)
• No Styrofoam
• No rubber (gloves, hoses)
• No plastic grocery sacks of plastic film (please take these to City Market or Walmart)
• No waxy or plastic cardboard (milk boxes, juice boxes, gravies, etc)
• No bubble mailers, peanuts, packing pillows
• No wine box bladders
• No batteries or hidden electronics
• No oil or hazardous materials
• No tires, PVC, paint, confetti, fertilizer, or fairy dust

If I leave anything recyclable behind it is because I have nowhere to take it, or it is too dirty.

Fun Fact: Anything small enough to fit in the palm of your hand eventually goes to the dump.

Disclaimer: must be flexible if the route runs late or fills up, or there is impacting weather.