The City of Livingston offers a variety of recycling options to our citizens. Please bring your recyclables to the City Transfer Station 408 Bennett, (Approximately 1/4 mile North of the City of Livingston Utility Office.) Please click here for map.
You will see two large compartmentalized roll off boxes that have openings to deposit aluminum, steel, paper, (small lightweight boxes, e.g. cereal boxes, kleenex boxes, mac & cheese or hamburger helper boxes, are considered paper and should be recycled with newspapers and magazines), and plastics 1-7 ( please no styrofoam, plastic cups or plastic bags). There is also a bin for metal and appliances. There is a $5.00 charge for appliances, please no refrigerators or freezers. Please click here for a list of what we can and cannot take.
Your help is needed to keep recycling clean and free of contamination. Contaminants can cause entire loads of otherwise clean recyclables to end up in the garbage. Recyclables should be clean, rinsed, dry and empty. ( Milk sours and will leave odors in the bin.) Rinse containers with water and leave no food residue. Do not bag items. Labels can stay on. Please step on plastic bottles to get the air out and put the lids back on.
We have a new cardboard compactor located by the transfer station. This new compactor allowed the City to get rid of the dumpsters and keeps the area much neater. Cardboard boxes need to be broken down in order to fit into the compactor opening. Small lightweight boxes (cereal boxes, kleenex boxes, mac & cheese or hamburger helper boxes) are considered paper and should be recycled with newspapers and magazines. Pizza boxes can be recycled with cardboard if they are clean and free of any food residue.
Glass can be left in it's own area. This glass is pulverized and can be used for landscaping projects, and as bedding material for utility projects.
The glass is put into a concrete corral by recyclers
A City crew member uses a small front end loader to scoop up the glass and put it into the pulverizer.
The glass is pulverized into two different textures. One is like sand, which can be used in landscaping projects and the other size is more like gravel, which will be used as bedding material for utility projects.
Approximately 90 bottles are turned into sand in the amount of 1' x 1' x 2".