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* Households served: 15,000
* Recycling since: 1992
* Details of collection program: Curbside service with bins.
* Materials collected: aluminum and steel cans, cardboard, magazines, catalogs, phone books, newspapers (including glossy inserts), junk mail, plastics #1-#5 and #7, food and beverage cans and glass containers. No broken glass.
* Annual tonnage: 2,578
* Drop-off center: Free compost is available to Allen residents at the Allen Compost Facility, 400 S. Jupiter Road. Each household is allowed 2 cubic yards of compost per month. The closest recycling drop-off is the BFI Recycling Center, 4200 E. 14th St., Plano. Hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday; 8 a.m.-1 p.m. on Saturday.
* What’s new or next: Recycling Coordinator Cynthia Brightwell says officials are looking into a household hazardous waste program.
* Information: Cynthia Brightwell, city of Allen recycling coordinator,
(972) 727-0179.

Flower Mound

* Households served: 17,000
* Details of program: Curbside with bin. Materials include: newspapers, magazines, plastics #1-#2, aluminum and metal cans, all colors glass bottles or jars.
* Annual tonnage: 2,926
* Drop-off center: Residents may drop off brush, household appliances, furniture and other large items at the BFI Landfill, 801 E. College St., Lewisville. Hours: 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays.
* Household hazardous waste: Save for collection days.
* Information: (972) 539-7378.

Farmers Branch

* Households served: 8,000
* Recycling since: 1992
* Details of collection program: Curbside with paper grocery sacks.
* Materials collected: newspaper, aluminum cans, clear glass, #2 plastics and bottles.
* Annual tonnage: 515
* Drop-off center: Citizen’s Collection Site, 1349 Valley View Lane. Hours:
8 a.m.-6 p.m., Friday through Monday.
* Household hazardous waste: Part of the Dallas Area Household Hazardous Waste program. Save for collection event, or call the Home Chemical Collection Center at (214) 630-9160.
* Information: City’s public works department at (972) 919-2597.

Frisco

* Households served: 10,200
* Recycling since: 1994
* Details: Curbside with recycling bin.
* Materials: plastics #1-#5 and #7; glass, colored and white; aluminum and steel cans; newspapers, magazines, phone books and yard waste.
* Annual tonnage: 1,931
* Drop-off center: For apartment tenants and residents living within or outside city limits. No commercial accounts. Located at 6726 Walnut St., Frisco.
Hours: 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Monday-Friday; 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturdays.
* Household hazardous waste: Call (972) 335-5519 for more information.
* What’s new or next: City awarded grant money and plans are under way to open a city collection center around spring 2001.
* Information: Tippa Couvillion, city recycling coordinator, (972) 335-5519.

McKinney

* Households served: 15,000
* Recycling since: 1989
* Details: Curbside service.
* Materials include: newspaper; plastic containers #1-#2 ; aluminum and other metal cans; glass bottles and jars.
* Drop-off center: Residents can drop materials, including corrugated cardboard and automobile batteries, at the IESI Materials Recovery Facility, 721 Anderson St., McKinney.
* Hours: 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Saturdays.
* Household hazardous waste: May be handled by commercial facilities – such as Heat Energy Advanced Technology, 4460 Singleton Blvd., Dallas – for a fee; call 214-637-6460 or see the HEAT Web site.
* Waste oil may be taken to: McKinney landfill, 500 Old Mill Road, McKinney, or Custer Road Transfer Station, 9901 Custer Road, from 8:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday.
* Information: (972) 547-7385

Plano

* Households served: 60,712
* Recycling since: 1992
* Details: Curbside with containers.
* Materials: newspapers and magazines, aluminum, steel and tin cans, plastics #1-#2, aerosol cans, glass.
* Annual tonnage: 16,750, plus 85 tons of old appliances.
* Drop-off centers: Drop-off container, always open, at Haggard Library,
2501 Coit Road. BFI Municipal Recycling Center, 4200 E. 14th St. BFI Center also takes office paper and corrugated cardboard.
* Household hazardous waste: Residents can call 972-964-4150 to arrange for a pickup of hazardous materials. Plano has a Re-use Center, 4100 W. Plano Parkway, where residents can pick up free items – such as paint, pesticides, etc. – two days a week: from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Wednesday and Saturdays.
* What’s new or next?: City recently received a grant that will be used to launch a paint-recycling program. Old paints will be mixed and redistributed as Conservation Colors. Residents can now purchase prepackaged bags of compost – called Plano Pure – from the city’s warehouse, 4100 W. Plano Parkway. The 40-pound bags are $3.
* Information: (972) 964-4150.