Waste Not (Recycling) Program

WASTE NOT, Incline Village General Improvement District's Conservation program, provides community conservation services to protect OUR resources. The WASTE NOT program is located at Public Works. Our purpose: to empower sustainable living by providing conservation programs for recycling, household hazardous waste, water conservation, watershed management, and education.

Click here for our 2010 Recycling Guide

Click here for our 2010 Curbside Recycling Schedule.

For customer information on WASTE NOT programs of Recycling and Trash services please click here.

Want to know how we are doing? Check out our 2009 Annual Report!

The Pine Needle Recycling Site is Closed for 2010

Please do not bring pine needles to Diamond Peak. Any materials left there will be considered illegally dumped.
 
Residents are encouraged to take advantage of the new, free year waste  drop-off events, and to use the free curbside pine needle recycling week.

Free Defensible Space Cleanup / Yard Waste Drop–Off Events for Incline Village and Crystal Bay Residents on Saturday, June 5 & Saturday, Sept. 11
Spring cleanup time is right around the corner.  Improve your property’s defensible space and get the yard waste recycled for free!   Incline Village General Improvement District (IVGID) in partnership with Waste Management will be offering two defensible space cleanup / yard waste drop-off events for Incline Village & Crystal Bay residents this year. 

The first event is scheduled for Saturday, June 5 from 7:30 am to 2 pm at the at the Public Works Facility at 1220 Sweetwater Road in Incline Village, NV. The event will end promptly at 2 pm.  A second event will be held on September 11. 

Residents can bring an unlimited amount of yard debris to these events , saving money on spring cleanup disposal costs and getting these woody materials recycled at the same time. Proof of f District residency (NV drivers’ license or IVGID recreation card) will be required to drop-off materials.  Customers will be responsible for unloading materials as directed by Waste Management personnel.  Please remember to tarp your load; lining a truck bed with a tarp will facilitate unloading. 

•    Acceptable items: natural woody debris : pine needles, bark, pine cones, tree branches (under 4 inches diameter and 4 feet in length), brush, yard trimmings, dry grass and dead leaves.
•    Not accepted:  no garbage, no stumps, no construction debris, no nails, no dirt, rocks or soil, no commercial customers*. *Commercial entities will  only  be allowed to drop-off materials at the events if the property owner (whose residence generated the materials) accompanies the business truck to the drop site and presents valid identification. 
  
Free Curbside Pine Needle Recycling Week offered June 7 to 11,  2010
The District’s Pine Needle Curbside Recycling Week is the one annually designated week when clean, bagged pine needles that are placed curbside will be collected for recycling, rather than being landfilled. Up to 6 ( 32 gallon) bags of pine needles may be placed curbside for recycling. A special label is required on the bags; the label will be mailed out with the IVGID Utility Bill in May, 2010. Last year more than 1000 bags of pine needles were diverted from the landfill – so residents are urged to take advantage of that week for their pine needle disposal. Year round, residents may place a total of 7 (32 gallon) can/bags of waste curbside each week, but these materials end up going to the landfill.  Excess bags placed at the curb will be removed but charged $2.31 per bag. Household recycling in blue bags are not included in the weekly curbside limits.  

Materials collected at the yard waste drop-off events and the curbside pine needle recycling week will be processed through Tahoe Truckee Sierra Disposal’s Biomass Diversion Program.

Zero Waste Program

Planning a community event, think about making it Zero Waste? You can now offer recycling and composting! Recycling / composting collection containers and other tools are now available for free community use through the North Lake Tahoe “Zero Waste” Project. To learn more about this new program, sponsored by IVGID and the Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation download this information packet.

Please take a moment to review our programs including: recycling, bear awareness www.stashyourtrash.org and trash containment, water conservation, source water protection, clean water team and household hazardous waste. 

The WASTE NOT staff would love to hear from you! Do you have a question or are you interested in becoming a waste not volunteer? Contact WASTE NOT or call us at the WASTE NOT HOTLINE (775) 832-1284.