If your recyclables are piling up, don’t bother wheeling them out to the curb this week.
The city has suspended recycling pickup until Dec. 1.
Heavy winds not only took out the power for wide swaths of Lexington Monday. They also tore the fabric roof off part of Lexington’s recycling center. The damage to the center’s tipping room, where trucks come to drop off the materials, was enough to close the facility until Monday.
Malcolm Stallons with the Dept. of Environmental Quality and Public Works says the original vendor who installed the roof will is inspecting the damage Tuesday.
"In the meantime, options facing the city were to go ahead with collections and try to store the materials elsewhere, which would have cost the city additional money, or to go ahead and deliver the recyclables to the landfill, which was not a good option," he explains.
While residential recycling collections will cease until December 1, business collection will continue onschedule.
Residential customers can find a link to 16 alternate recycling drop off centers here.
