Village Sustainable Mariemont to Host Community Recycling Drive

By Alicia Stock Sustainable Mariemont Volunteer

In honor of Earth Day on April 22, 2025, Sustainable Mariemont will host a community recycling drive where Village residents can easily drop off hard-to-recycle items in one convenient location! The event will take place on Saturday, April 5th from 9 a.m.-noon in the Mariemont municipal building parking lot behind the firehouse, at 6907 Wooster Pike. Parking and drive-through options will be available.

Plastics

• Rigid plastics that are not accepted curbside: including clamshells, clean prescription bottles, disposable contact lens containers, bread bag clips, straws, utensils, and more! Accepting 1PETE and 2HDPE if shorter than 3” (bottles taller than 3” can be recycled curbside), 3PVC, 4LDPE, 5PP, 6PS, 7OTHER, and no # rigid plastics.

• Soft plastics: flexible film, including pet food bags, chip bags, crinkly packaging, plastic pouches, and 6-pack rings

• Clean white styrofoam: no tape, no labels, no other types of Styrofoam

• Oral Care & deodorant: Any brand of oral care and deodorant packaging including toothbrushes, deodorant containers and caps, floss containers, floss picks, toothpaste tubes and caps, any mouthwash bottles and caps unable to be recycled curbside (3” and shorter)

• Garden planters and flats (rinsed clean, no dirt)

Clothing

Items

• Tennis shoes in poor condition or mismatched

• Glasses, sunglasses, and cases all in good condition

• Textiles that can’t be donated (Must be clean but can have stains/holes)*

* Good condition textiles and tennis shoes should be donated to a local charity of your choice. Old towels, sheets and blankets of any condition can be donated to local animal shelters, such as Cincinnati Animal Care, a no-kill shelter located at 3949 Colerain Ave, 45223.

Metal/Electronics

• Small kitchen appliances that cannot be donated (coffee makers, blenders, mixers, etc)

• Decorative light strands

• Small scrap metal: yard sign stakes, nails, screws, wardrobe box bars, unusable pots/ pans, etc

• Small electronics: phones, ipads, ipods, smartwatches, airpods/earbuds, digital cameras

• Phone/computer chargers, power cords/ strips

Most plastic bottles, jugs, #5 tubs, and clear cups can be recycled curbside through the Rumpke curbside recycling program. Hamilton County has recently partnered with the Hefty ReNew Program to accept additional plastic items curbside in the orange Hefty Renew bags, including Styrofoam, straws, plastic utensils, food storage bags, and more! Hefty Renew bags can be purchased at the Mariemont Kroger in 20 count boxes. Most other hard-to-recycle plastics can be taken to the Cincinnati Recycling & Reuse Hub at 911 Evans St in Price Hill. The “Hub” participates in programs like TerraCycle and utilizes free shopping days to recycle and reuse unwanted plastic items.

In addition to the community recycling drive, Sustainable Mariemont will also be partnering with the Mariemont Park Board to organize volunteer clean-up days of our beautiful Village parks throughout the month of April. If you have a group that would like to get involved, please email us at sustainablemariemont@ gmail.com. Follow Sustainable Mariemont on Instagram or Facebook for the latest updates on all these events.