Town Crier Articles

 

For the past 2 years during the pandemic, a lot of us have been ordering more items online than in the past, which results in a lot of extra recycling, particularly cardboard.

 

Unlike trash which is contracted for by the New Town Residential Association, James City County controls the contract with our recycling company. All complaints regarding recycling (e.g. dropped cardboard, broken glass, etc. ) can be directed to their website. Please refer to this website if you have questions about what they recycle and options of how to dispose of items they do not pickup. The website also has a printable calendar of when pickup will occur, and when dates are changed due to holidays. 

 

A few reminders:

A note on recycling glass:

 

Glass will still be picked up curbside BUT the JCC Recycling Centers (closest one to New Town is at the end of Tewning Road, past Godspeed Animal Hospital) have a new program for recycling glass. The bins are purple. Owens-Illinois (OI) has started a program where they will collect the glass and transport it, at no cost, to their manufacturing facility in Toano. It will be processed into cullet which is a material necessary for making new glass.  When glass gets mixed in with regular recycling, it breaks down and is difficult to separate. OI has been making glass in James City County for over 40 years and glass making first began in JCC in 1609, so a tradition will continue. Glass is the heaviest item in the recycling bins so to be able to remove some of the weight will cut the cost of recycling for the county.