Trash Talk: The Hub Recycling Recap
On Wednesday October 1, the Kennedy Heights Community Council sponsored Trash Talk, the third event in our ongoing sustainability series of presentations. Alex Hapner, co-owner of Lierer’s Market, began the evening with an introduction to her community focused low waste grocery store at 4170 Hamilton Ave.in Northside. The market offers a variety of refillable products as well as a food composting service. Carrie Harms, co-founder and Operations Director of the Cincinnati Recycling and Reuse Hub followed with a comprehensive talk detailing not only what items the hub takes but also how the hub differs from other recycling opportunities available to our residents. The Hub, located at 911Evans Street, Cincinnati, OH 45204, runs on volunteer power and has limited open hours. Checkout their website for open hours and to learn about all the plastics (including those #1 clam shell containers that many fruits and vegetables come in & can’t go in our curb side bin) and many other items you can take to the hub and keep out of the landfill.
Thank you to the KHCC Parks, Green Space and Sustainability Committee, especially Carren Herring, Kate Kern, and Abby Burton for organizing and coordinating this event and to Aaron Burton for designing the graphics and capturing photos throughout the evening.
We’re excited to keep building on this momentum. Thank you to everyone who completed our survey—we appreciate your feedback and ideas for future events. For those who attended, recycling resources will be sent via email soon, and we hope to add those materials to our website for others to access in the near future. Finally, a big thank you to the volunteers who helped with setup and cleanup, and to all who joined us for a night of learning and community in The Heights!
Rumpke Curbside Recycling Resources
When using Rumpke’s curbside recycling service all items should be empty, clean, and placed in your recycling bin. Do not put your recycling in plastic bags. All items can be mixed together and you do not need to remove the labels. Learn more about Rumpke’s Recycling program here.
Rumpke’s acceptable materials are listed below but may vary slightly in some locations:
Glass bottles & jars (all colors)
Steel cans
Aluminum cans and cups
Plastic bottles (empty, crush, reattach lid): Bottles and jugs that have a small mouth and wider base, such as milk jugs, soda bottles, laundry detergent bottles, water bottles, shampoo bottles and contact solution bottles
Plastic tubs*: Containers for butter, sour cream, cottage cheese, yogurt, Jello, and fruit slices would fall into the tub category. Plastic lids should be reattached prior to recycling, film or foil lids should be discarded
Plastic Cups* (remove/discard straw, reattach lid): Fast food beverage cups – colored party cups are not accepted
Plastic Clamshell Containers**: Packaging food, retail products, groceries, and takeout items
Paper: newspaper, magazines, cardboard, mixed office paper and envelopes, paperboard (cereal boxes), pizza boxes free of food debris and grease, telephone books, and catalogs
Paper cups (remove/discard lids, straws, and stoppers): Fast food beverage cups, coffee cups, Dixie cups
Cartons (remove plastic caps and straws): Food and beverage cartons, such as milk, juice, soup, wine, broth, and other cartons
