Your household is scheduled to receive your new, blue recycling cart Tuesday, December 7. Carts will be placed at the end of your driveway.

Due to logistical constraints, there is no option available for customers to pick-up carts themselves.

If you are going to be out of town or have special delivery instructions (such as a gate code), please contact Leslie Strader at [email protected]
Leave any red tote bins you no longer want stacked, empty, and upside-down at the curb on the day of your scheduled blue cart delivery (TUESDAY MORNING, December 7th). Genoa Township Maintenance Department will collect red bins to return to Rumpke en masse.

If you would like to keep your old red tote bin, you may continue using it for recycling or other purposes.
Steps to return a rented green Rumpke cart:

Wait to receive your new blue recycling cart from Genoa Township.
  1. Call Rumpke customer service at 1-800-828-8171 to cancel your rental. Rumpke will continue billing for cart rental until the customer has called to authorize removal of their green rental cart.
  2. On your regular collection day (Friday), set your green cart out at the end of your driveway. Rumpke will retrieve rental carts that have been authorized by the customer for pick-up.
Both free red bins and Rumpke cart rental will continue to be offered in addition to the blue cart program. Monthly billing will continue for Rumpke collection service regardless of the container option selected by a resident. No new monthly charges will result from using the blue cart.
Determining which items do and do not belong in the recycling is a common cause of confusion.

The graphic above makes recycling easy. Items shown in the photos are accepted by Rumpke for recycling. If an item is not shown, it means that Rumpke does not presently have a manufacturing partner that can use the material.

Items improperly placed into the recycling bin are removed mechanically and by hand at the Rumpke "Material Recovery Facility" and sent to the landfill.
These items can cause major disruption at Rumpke's recycling facility. Plastic bags jam machinery, batteries have caused fires, and general trash requires extra sorting. After each material type has been segregated, bundles of a single type of material are packaged into large cubes called "bails" to be sold as commodities to manufacturers.
Special thanks to Ohio EPA for providing grant funding for subsidized blue carts.
String lights that make it to Rumpke's recycling facility become easily tangled in their specialized machinery and can completely shut down their operation. While string lights cannot be recycled at the curbside, they can be recycled through a special program sponsored by Keep Delaware County Beautiful.

A dedicated drop-box will be located at Genoa Township's administration building (5111 South Old 3c Highway) from November 15-January 14. Lights deposited into this bin will be recycled properly.
Give the tree that lit up your holidays the proper send-off. Instead of dragging it out to the curb for Rumpke to dump in a landfill, deliver it to the maintenance facility (7049 Big Walnut Road). Trees will be given new life as mulch for township parks.

Drop-off in the designated area anytime throughout January.