Cimarron Recycling Center

Located at 107 South Ash

Open 24 hours a day, seven days a week

Opened in 1994, Cimarron's recycling Center collects disposable goods to be recycled, instead of being buried in the landfill.  An average of 70 tons per year is recycled.

The center collects the following materials:

Cardboard                 

Brown Paper Bags

Newspapers and

    inserts                   

Magazines                 

Office Paper    

        

Aluminum Cans         

Plastics #1                 

Plastics #2                 

Plastics #'s 3-9  

Plastic sacks

Telephone Books

Glass

E-Waste

                            The center DOES NOT ACCEPT these items:

Pressed Cardboard (like cereal boxes or egg cartons)

Hardback Books                       Feed or Seed Sack                 

Steel or Tin CansStyrofoam cups, containers, peanuts or packing materials

Hazardous Waste should be taken to Gray County Public Works at 915 North Main in Cimarron.  This includes used oil, paint cans, chemicals, batteries, etc.

Compost Site is located 1/2 mile south and 1/2 mile east of the Main Street stop light.  The public is encouraged to bring grass, leaves and tree branches to the compost site.  leaves and grass are placed in wind rows, watered and turned periodically to create compost.  Tree limbs are chipped into wood mulch. 

Finished compost and wood chips can be picked up for public use.

Corrugated cardboard only.  Boxes may be flattened or left whole.  No cereal boxes, drink cartons, feed or seed sacks.

Computer and office papers.  Shredded paper should be bagged.  White or pastel only - NO bright colored paper, laminated or black.  NO carbon copies. 

All other colored #2 bottles.  Oil and chemical bottles must be triple rinsed.

Solid Colored Bottles:  --Red, Blue, Green, White, Orange, Yellow, Purple, etc.

Remove rubber bands, plastic wrap and strings

Remove plastic wrap

May be crushed or left whole.  No foil or foil pans.

Milk jugs or milk-colored drink bottles.  Please rinse and crush.