Photo credit: City of VictorvilleVICTORVILLE – The City of Victorville invites residents to participate in the “The Right Stuff” Curbside Recycling Contest, going on until September 30, for a chance to win a $100 gift card.
Every week, the city will choose new contestants, and their organics, recycling, and trash carts are checked. If the customer has correctly sorted all three carts of waste, then they are announced a winner.
Sort items correctly
To be eligible to win, the city said residents must sign up for the contest and recycle correctly which includes:
- Using the Green Organics Cart Only for Organic Material — Organic material includes bagged food waste and scraps as well as loose yard trimmings such as branches and leaves.
Food waste should always be bagged, and yard trimmings should always be loose. The city said green organics carts must not include any recyclables or trash. - Using the Blue Recycling Cart Only for Recyclables — Recyclable items include glass bottles and jars, tin and aluminum cans, rigid plastic containers (bottles/jars/tubs/trays), as well as clean and dry paper and cardboard.
All bottles and cans must be completely empty and free of food residue.Recyclables should be placed loose into the recycle bin, not bagged. The recycle cart must not contain any “trash” or “contaminants” such as plastic bags, soiled paper, food, or garden trimmings. - Using the Trash Cart Only for Trash — The city said that the other part of recycling correctly is to make sure no recyclable items end up in the trash.It is important to recycle cereal boxes, plastic shampoo bottles, junk mail, school papers, yogurt containers, laundry detergent boxes, bottles, etc.
Register for a chance to win
Residents can visit vv.city/therightstuff to sign up for the contest.
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