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Extra Trash Allowed After Holidays Residents may put out twice the amount of trash at no extra charge during the two weeks following Christmas. Please make sure the trash is in bags. We also collect extra recyclables, but please make sure to flatten all boxes.
All you need to do is remove the ornaments, hooks, lights, tinsel, bows, nails and tree stand. Cut the tree into four-foot sections and place in your yard waste barrel on your scheduled pickup day. Please remember, however, that flocked trees cannot be recycled. Trees we collect will be processed into various sizes of mulch. The material is used by Agromin to make several products that benefit our farmlands, orchards, nurseries and our own gardens. |  |
Green Holiday Ideas to Trim ‘Wasteline’
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E.J. Harrison & Sons and the City of Ventura make it easy for you to recycle your Christmas tree.
During the last quarter of the year, when we celebrate several holidays, an extra 25 percent of waste is generated. To trim your wasteline, try a couple of “Green Holiday” ideas:
Use packing peanuts made from cornstarch instead of Styrofoam. They can be reused and then safely dissolved in water. New ‘Sharps’ Law
Many people who are “at-home injectors” may be unaware of this new law. Improper disposal of these items presents a great health risk to the public as well as sanitation and sewage treatment workers, janitors, housekeepers, or even animals and marine life and the environment. If you or someone in your family uses “sharps” at home, here are ways you can properly dispose of them. Remember all sharps must now be transported in an approved sharps container only. Ventura County Public Health Clinic at 3147 Loma Vista Road has sharps containers. They will take back sharps in an approved sharps container only. Contact them at 652-5754 for more information. West Ventura Medical Clinic at 133 W. Santa Clara (Garden St. parking lot entrance) has containers and will take back sharps in an approved sharps container only. Contact them at 641-5600 for more information. The City of Ventura’s monthly (except December) Household Hazardous Waste Collection Events will take sharps in an approved sharps container. For 2009 event days, call 652-4525 or check the “Household Hazardous Waste” tab at www.venturasenvironment.com. Check with your local pharmacy to see if they sell approved sharps containers. For a list of approved convenient Mail-Back services, check the California Department of Public Health website at http://www.cdph.ca.gov/certlic/
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If you have extra trash (there is a charge) or recyclables (no charge) for us to collect, please make prior arrangements by calling our office at 647-1414.No Drugs Down the Drain
Electronics Recycling
Waste Barrel Rules In compliance with City of Ventura Municipal Code Section 6.500.150, please remember not to put your waste barrels out at the curb any earlier than 4 p.m. the day before collection. Likewise, all barrels must be removed from the place of collection prior to 8 p.m. the day the containers have been emptied. To give the arm on the automated truck room to work, please be sure there is at least three feet between the carts and six feet clearance from vehicles, mailboxes, utility poles or anything else that could be in the way of the collection truck. Section 6.500.160 of the Municipal Code also specifies that in a residential area, the containers cannot be stored where they would be visible from a public street. Thank you for helping keep our streets and sidewalks safe and clean.
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For a long time, we were told to flush old medication down the drain. Now we find these drugs cannot be processed at the wastewater treatment plants and are showing up in our drinking water. Until there are pharmaceutical take-back programs in place, the recommended method to safely dispose of medications is to mix pills with coffee grounds or other trash items and put in a sealed plastic bag. Liquids, such as old cough syrup, may be poured into kitty litter, scooped up and put into a sealed plastic bag. These bags can then be thrown into the trash. Narcotics can be taken to a police station for disposal. 
Are you getting a new TV for the holidays or need to get rid of that old one in the garage or one that isn’t compatible with the new digital technology? You can recycle the old television, computer monitor cell phone, radios, ipods or other electronic devices at Gold Coast Recycling for no cost to City of Ventura residents. Please bring proof of residency (driver’s license or utility bill) to take advantage of this service. 
Super-size your recycling!
Recycle your rigid plastics:
Recycle your athletic shoes: 
Need an extra green waste cart?E.J. Harrison & Sons |
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What goes in the Trash? Hopefully, very little. After you have recycled, composted, filled the yard waste cart, donated old clothing and goods, and done all of those good things and more– most of the rest can go in the trash. |
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How to Place Your Cart for
Automated Collection Carts should be out by 7:00 a.m. on collection days. |
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What Doesn't go in the Trash or any other cart? STOP No Hazardous
Waste!!
For information on how to dispose of these items,
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The automated
arm of the collection
truck needs
room to grab
the cart. Carts
should be placed
2-3 feet apart from each other and from objects
such as mailboxes and cars with the wheels facing the curb. 
These items are 