Recycling

The Town of Belgrade encourages its citizens to participate in its voluntary recycling program. Recycling benefits the environment by reducing the need for virgin materials such as wood, and it helps reduce the Town’s costs in diverting everyday waste away from local landfills (thus saving you taxes). For every ton of waste diverted to recycling, the Town saves $79 in landfill and transportation costs.

The Recycling Center collects:

  • Plastics. Those include No. 1 plastics, such as clear-colored water and soda bottles; No. 2 plastics such as milk jugs, and shampoo and laundry detergent bottles; and No. 5 plastics.
  • Paper products, including corrugated cardboard (flattened and dry), newspapers and inserts, magazines, catalogs, phone books, office paper, paper towel and toilet paper rolls, tissue boxes, non-Styrofoam egg cartons, and paperback books. Wax-coated and treated papers such as take-out coffee cups are NOT recyclable.
  • Metals, including steel and aluminum cans. All other metals may be dropped off in their designated area.
  • Glass, including all brown, green and clear glass containers, and window glass.

Thin and flexible (filmy) plastics such as shopping bags, wraps for paper towels, dry cleaning bags, Ziploc bags, newspaper bags, etc. can be returned to big-box and grocery stores that dispense them. Visit plasticfilmrecycling.org for descriptions of thin plastics that can be recycled and nearby locations where they may be recycled.

Styrofoam products are not recyclable and should be placed in the hopper.

Composting is available free of charge whenever the Transfer Station is open. Should a resident need composting material loaded into a truck, please call Transfer Station Director Ken Scheno at 207-495-3326 to schedule an appointment during non-operational hours.