Recycling in Springdale is voluntary - Arkansas state law (A.C.A. §8-9-401 et seq., the Arkansas Solid Waste Management Act) authorizes but does not mandate municipal recycling. CARDS Holdings includes a weekly curbside recycling bin with the $20.33 monthly trash-and-recycling service for single-family homes and 1-4 unit buildings inside the city limits. The City also operates a drop-off recycling center at 1809 S Lowell Road (open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.) that accepts a broader list including glass bottles and jars, household hazardous waste, and electronics. Recyclables must be placed loose - never bagged.
Springdale's recycling program is voluntary - there is no Arkansas state-law mandate that municipalities run a mandatory curbside recycling program. The Arkansas Solid Waste Management Act (A.C.A. §8-9-401 et seq.) authorizes municipalities to operate recycling but leaves the design to local discretion. Springdale offers two coordinated channels: (1) Curbside collection by CARDS Holdings as part of the standard $20.33 monthly trash-and-recycling service for single-family residences and multifamily buildings up to four units inside the city limits; CARDS provides a bin bar-coded to the address and accepts plastic containers #1 and #2, aluminum cans, steel/tin food cans, cardboard (flattened), and clean paper - but generally not glass in the curbside bin. (2) Drop-off recycling center at 1809 S Lowell Road, Springdale, AR 72764 (479-249-4558), open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., which accepts the curbside list PLUS glass bottles and jars, plastic #5 containers in addition to #1/#2, office paper, newspaper, antifreeze, automotive batteries, and household electronics. Critical operational rule: recyclables must be placed LOOSE - never bagged. Springdale Water Utilities' published guidance: 'Give bottles, cans and jars a rinse, keep the paper and cardboard dry and clean, and flatten cardboard boxes. Don't bag any of them; keep them loose.' Plastic bags ('film plastic') jam the sorting machinery at the regional materials recovery facility (MRF) and contaminate loads to the point of rejection. Boston Mountain Solid Waste District at 11398 Bond Road, Prairie Grove, AR 72753 (479-846-3005) is the regional backstop for household hazardous waste (paints, pesticides, motor oil, large electronics, televisions, fluorescent tubes) that cannot go through curbside or the Lowell Road drop-off.
Setting non-recyclables in the curbside recycling bin contaminates the load and may cause CARDS to reject the bin - the resident pays for the rejected load to be re-routed to landfill, and persistent contamination may result in withdrawal of the recycling bin. Bagging recyclables (plastic film) jams the MRF and is the single most common contamination cause - the City explicitly instructs loose set-out, no bags. Setting glass in the curbside bin contaminates the commingled load and may be tagged. Persistent non-compliance with cart-presentation rules is a Code violation under Chapter 42 enforced by Code Enforcement (201 Spring Street) with progressive notices. Mixing household hazardous waste (paint, batteries, motor oil) into the recycling bin can trigger ADEQ enforcement under A.C.A. §8-9-401 et seq. with civil penalties up to $10,000 per day per violation. Selling or scavenging set-out recyclables may be cited as theft of CARDS property.
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