Town-contracted, resident-paid recycling pickup every other Wednesday. 

Use designated 95-gallon containers for single-stream collection [plastics, aluminum, newspapers, magazines, glass and more]. 

Acceptable recycling items--telephone & soft back books; catalogs; plastics--#1, #2, #3, #4, #5 & #7; cereal boxes without bags; soup cans [steel and tin]; glass containers [clear, brown or green glass]; flower trays or shrub pots; cardboard-cut down & bundled so it's able to be reloaded in cart; newspapers; magazines; aluminum cans; junk mail; mixed paper; buckets and pails

Unacceptable items for recycling--light bulbs; mirrors; toilet paper; cotton clothing; coat hangers; plastic bags including grocery bags; styrofoam; ceramics; aerosol cans; paper towels; scrap metal; PVC pipes; plastic wrap

Call 574.522.1331 for more information.

Whether you recycle via the yellow-topped cans or you take your recycling to the dumpsters located next to Forks County Line Store, know that you're helping.  You're helping (1) lower the town's trash handling contract [shipping less trash], (2) you're helping extend the life cycle of the county landfill by not sending all your trash week after week,  (3) you're helping  by recycling the finite materials we have PLUS (4) you're helping the young people around you--watching what you do and learning what's really important by what you do--you help them develop a lifelong habit of recycling.

Thank you for all the help you do by recycling!