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Yard Waste

Yard waste is defined by the county (you may read the Frederick County definition of yard waste here). Yard waste is no longer accepted by Frederick County landfills. This means that all yard waste must be brought to compost areas separate from solid waste.

This new yard waste regulation in Frederick County can be a big inconvenience to all of us, but keeping biodegradable yard waste out of our landfill is the right thing to do. If you are planning a lawn or garden project that will generate large amounts of yard waste, here are some things to keep in mind:

1. Do you have access to a truck to haul the lawn and garden clippings to the Frederick County compost site?
   
2. Do you have the time to haul your yard waste?
   
3. Do you know how yard waste should be packaged?
   
4. Do you know what is and is not accepted at the Frederick County compost facilities?

To answer these important yard waste recycling questions, please visit the Frederick County website. If you would like American Disposal Systems to come and collect the yard waste and haul it to one of Frederick County's compost facilities, please call us - we would be happy to help!

At this time there is not enough demand to run a scheduled weekly or bi-weekly yard waste pickup, but we can come pickup at an on-call basis. For more information about our yard waste pickup pricing, please give us a call.

Thank you! After all, recycling is for a very good cause!

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Recycling Electronics

Do you know that some of the worst items to throw in the trash are old electronics? Trash items like old computers, computer monitors, keyboards, batteries, printers, VCR's, cell phones or old video games cannot be landfilled safely. Any type of electronic trash will contain a variety of materials such as lead, cadmium, beryllium, mercury, hexavalent, chromate, as well as toxic chemicals or materials that will leach into the ground and could end up in our drinking water.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Electronic equipment contains metals and other materials that can be hazardous to human health and the environment if they are not properly managed."

The next time you have old electronic items to throw out, call ADS and we'll pick them up and make sure they are properly recycled. We have partnered with e-EndUSA in Frederick, Maryland. They are a major electronics recycler with a zero-landfill policy so you can be sure all of your electronic trash is properly recycled.

If you have old computers to be disposed of, don't forget that your hard drive has information that you probably want to keep private. Most standard procedures for deleting files may not be sufficient to completely prevent data recovery. e-EndUSA uses government recommended procedures that will completely destroy all of your old computer's data.

Give us a call for more details regarding recycling old electronics.

Remember, when you have American Disposal Systems pick up your electronics garbage, you will be confident that you are doing the right thing and demonstrating good environmental stewardship.

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