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The other day I heard a rumor. An awful fabrication, the inventor of which, I do not know. The rumor ran the usual course that rumors do and eventually found its way to my ears. I can only say that I was shocked when I heard that my small town had stopped recycling brown, green and clear glass. I was confused by this because every month I take a huge load of these very items to the city dumping station and painstakingly separate each color as is requested into the three different bins designated Brown, Green, and Clear Glass. I was surprised at how quickly the rumor spread and even more surprised that people believed the rumor to be true, so much so, that they stopped recycling. When did people forget the old saying “don’t believe everything you hear?” Well, I for one am setting the record straight. Cookeville, TN does recycle glass along with a myriad of other items. The last thing we need to do is stop recycling. The following is a list of where and what we can recycle right here in town. It’s a simple step easily taken.
Cookeville City Convenience Center Locations*
S. Jefferson Ave., just south of Highland 12 Theater (Ferguson Plumbing parking lot)
Putnam County Justice Center- Spring and Locusts Streets, east parking lot next to jail
West Jackson Ave. - next to Cookeville animal shelter 2105 W. Jackson
TTU Family Housing -off N. Willow near the family housing and the intramural fields
*These City sites are unmanned and open everyday for your convenience.
Things you can recycle at these City Sites
Cardboard boxes (food boxes, packing boxes, appliance boxes, etc.)
Paper (newspaper and inserts, magazines, catalogs, telephone books)
#1 & #2 Plastic (beverage and detergent bottles), if the bottle has a neck and a triangle recycling symbol on the bottom, that contains either a #1 or a #2
Metals (aluminum beverage cans, steel food cans, scrap metals)
Glass (green, brown and clear glass) separated by color. (Only at City sites.)
For more information on where to recycle more items, visit the Clean Commission’s website
http://www.cleancommission.org/recycling/index.htm
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