Want a Bigger Recycling Bin? Wildwood Has'em

A notice from the city of Wildwood says its waste-hauler has received a grant to provide larger recycling carts to its residents. Here's the full text of the announcement from the city:

Meridian Waste Services, the CW5 single-family residential hauler of household waste within the City of Wildwood, has successfully obtained a recycling grant through the St Louis-Jefferson Solid Waste Management District to provide larger recycling carts to resident.

A total of 1,740 carts are available now, with additional carts becoming available in 2014. The larger carts are intended to increase the volume of recyclables collected in Wildwood, which is already one of the top recycling communities in the region.

The grant funds are made available from fees collected when disposing waste at local landfills.

The new carts are 95-gallon cans, compared to the standard 65-gallon carts currently used. If you find your 65-gallon cart is too small for your weekly recyclables, please call Meridian Waste Services at (314) 291-3131 and reserve one of the larger recycling carts.

Once the larger carts become available, Meridian will replace your 65-gallon recycling cart with the larger one. Since quantities are limited, the larger cart will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.

Please note, the old carts cannot be utilized for anything but recycling, so they will be redistributed to residents who need the smaller carts.