New self-serve bins in Walmart parking lots in Hammond and Ponchatoula are convenient, but they don’t completely replace recycling opportunities at the cities’ maintenance facilities and the parish landfill. At the Walmart recycling bins, you sort the recyclables yourself as follows: Clear plastic containers including clear bakery and produce trays/clamshells, clear fruit cups and clear plastic egg cartons. NOT accepted are colored plastic, plastics #3 PVC, #5 PP, #6 PS or #7 other.
Aluminum including drink and food cans, foil and baking tins. NOT accepted are plastic or glass. Home cleaning/beauty bottles including plastic milk and water jugs, laundry detergent jugs, household cleaning bottles and personal hygiene bottles.
NOT accepted are aerosols and glass. Plastic bags and films including plastic shopping bags, bread and cereal bags, cling and bubble wrap, and freezer, garbage and produce bags. NOT accepted are chip or snack bags, salad bags, pet food bags, boxes or cartons.
Plastic bottles including plastic water soda and sports drink bottles. NOT accepted are milk or water jugs, glass or aluminum. Rigid plastic food packaging including yogurt, butter and other dairy tubs; frozen and ready meal trays.
NOT accepted are milk jugs, shopping bags and film, snack or chip packaging, cardboard or paper. This involves considerably more sorting than my husband, the Professor, does. Currently, we use only three containers for our recyclables – one for paper and cardboard, one for plastics and one for miscellaneous items like cat food cans and tin cans.
He hauls the three containers to the Ponchatoula maintenance barn every second and fourth Saturday morning of the month. City workers there come to our car, unload the containers, empty them in a big trailer and return the containers to our car. We really appreciate this service.
In Hammond, recycling is available at the maintenance facility, 18104 U.S. Hwy.
190 E., on the first and third Saturdays from 8 a.m.
to noon. The hazardous waste recycling event is held the first Saturday of May at Zemurray Park. We had just about given up on finding a convenient place that accepts glass until word spread online – and Sherman’s Glass owner Brandon Phares confirmed – a local option.
People can bring their glass to the business on US-51 and leave it there for collection by a person who stops by two or three times a month. The glass collector smashes the glass into sand, and it is used for environmental purposes. Sherman’s Glass, 1480 Veterans Ave.
, Ponchatoula, is open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.
m. Laminated glass is the only type of glass that is not accepted, Brandon said. The Tangipahoa Parish Landfill on Hano Road accepts recyclables from 7 a.
m. to 4:45 p.m.
Monday through Friday and from 7 a.m. to noon on Saturday.
The website tangipahoa.org lists the details. Bring plastics including plastic bottles that have #1 through #7 inside the triangle shaped recycling symbol located typically at the bottom of the container, beverage bottles, food container, detergent bottles, shampoo bottles, prescription bottles, baby wipe containers, household cleaner containers, bleach bottles and buckets with handles removed.
Metals that are accepted include aluminum, tin and metal alloy beverage, food and pet food cans and metal lids. The labels do not have to be removed. Corrugated cardboard and paperboard boxes, cardboard drink cartons and cardboard shoe boxes can be brought to the landfill.
The following kinds of paper can be recycled at the landfill: junk mail, coupons, white or colored paper, gift wrap, envelopes, paper grocery bags, catalogs, magazines, newspapers, paperback books, telephone books and shredded paper. COOL COMING – My sweet son-in-law was so excited to surprise his bride on her 40th birthday. She had complained long and hard about being miserably hot in the home they share in Tuscany.
But when she returned from her latest gig as a tour guide on the Rhine River, he had three large beautifully wrapped boxes waiting for her. To his great delight, she shrieked with joy when she pulled back the wrapping paper and saw the words, “Air Conditioner.” Retired Southeastern Professor Mary Sue Ply of Tickfaw may be interested to learn these are indeed the room-specific, ductless mini-split units she had told me about.
Energy-efficient, they are popular in Europe and are attracting interest in the U.S. too.
The electrician and the plumber in my son-in-law’s little village are still vacationing at the beach, but he is confident they will have the units installed and working when she returns in a few weeks on her next break from work. Lil Mirando can be reached at [email protected].
