It’s Easy To Recycle Your Wrapping Paper, Boxes In North Escambia

December 25, 2011

You can “go green” with those piles of Christmas wrapping paper and boxes by recycling them at one of several drop-off locations around North Escambia or in your weekly ECUA pickup.

Christmas wrapping paper, along with other household paper, plastics, steel and aluminum can be placed in your recycling container on your normal ECUA pickup day. For complete information on the ECUA recycling program, click here.

The Escambia County Division of Solid Waste Management has drop-off recycling locations in or near each of the larger communities in North Escambia.  North of Nine Mile Road, recycling bins are located at:

  • Ashton Brosnaham Park, 10370 Ashton Brosnaham Drive
  • Billy G. Ward Courthouse, 7500 North Century Blvd., Century
  • Escambia County Extension Service, 3740 Stefani Road, Cantonment
  • John R. Jones Athletic Park, 555 E. Nine Mile Road
  • Molino Fire Department, 1459 Molino Road (behind fire station)
  • Oak Grove Citizen’s Convenience Center, 745 North Highway 99
  • Perdido Landfill, 13009 Beulah Road, Cantonment
  • UWF, John Martin Hall, 11000 University
  • UWF, ParkwayParking Lot #10, Campus Dr.

Items eligible for recycling at the drop-off locations are aluminum cans, steel cans, glass food and beverage containers, plastic containers (#1-#7), cardboard, junk mail (including Christmas wrapping paper), paper, magazines, and newspapers.

For more information on drop-off recycling in North Escambia, visit EscambiaRecycles.com.

Comments

One Response to “It’s Easy To Recycle Your Wrapping Paper, Boxes In North Escambia”

  1. Jane on December 25th, 2011 5:51 am

    If you think recycling is not important, watch “The Secret Life of Garbage” either on TV or online! It is scarey to see the huge reefs of plastic forming in our oceans! And that is just the beginning of what you will see. Recycle everything you can!