Contact Info

Keep Kimball Beautiful
Larissa Thomas
410 West 3rd Street
Kimball, NE 69145

Phone: 308-235-3202
Contact via Email

Services

• Recycling
• 24-hour collection bins
• Recycling assessment and waste audits
• Recycling pick-up service

Going Green Commitments

• Keep Kimball Beautiful is committed to being the "greenest" recycling center possible. We take this committment very seriously and stive, each day, to meet our goal.

Hours of Operation

24-Hours a day....7-Days a week....Recyclables Drop-Off Bins in front of the Recycling Center
When it is WINDY....please don't deposit your recyclables. Wait until the wind dies down.

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About Us

Citizens of Kimball, Nebraska first organized the Kimball Clean Community System in the 1970's, which became part of the Keep Nebraska Beautiful organization in the early 2000's.

During the past six years,it has developed and operated the Kimball Recycling Center, providing 24-hour collection bins and pick-up service at area businesses.

The recycling program also serves the villages of Dix and Bushnell in Kimball County.

Other activities include the "Golden Broom Award" for businesses that maintain clean and inviting properties; a parking lot cleanup day; a shoping bag exchange where reusable cloth bags are exchanged for plastic shoppng bags; and a tree seedling giveaway.

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                                           RECYCLING INFORMATION

ALUMINUM CANS: (pop cans, beer cans, energy drinks, etc)

1. If you have a second to quickly rinse the can-that would be great
2. No Pie Plates
3. No Aluminum Foil
4. Wet CAT FOOD can are accepted. MUST be rinsed. Must have labels taken off

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STEEL CANS:  We used to know these as Tin Cans (vegetable, fruit, soup, tuna, coffee, etc) 

1. Leave the lid partially attached!  - Discard the lid if it has been severed, please.  Loose lids are very dangerous to workers!!
2. Rinse, if you have a second please - doesn't have to be sparkling clean.
3. Don't have to remove label, but it is helpful to us.

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BROWN GLASS & CLEAR GLASS:

1. Discard the Lids.
2. Rinse, if you have a second, please - doesn't have to be sparkling clean

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NEWSPAPERS:  MAGAZINES/CATALOGS/PHONE BOOKS/PAPERBACK BOOKS:

1. No Kleenex boxes
2. No Crackers boxes
3. No Pop or Beer boxes
4. No Frozen Foods boxes
5. No Cereal boxes
6. No Egg cartons

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OFFICEPACK:  Paper that is NOT magazine or catalog or newspaper (junk mail, white oar lightly colored paper, envelopes, manila folders, index cards, etc; pages torn from hardback books are accepted, or we will tear pages out for you)

1. Envelopes with plastic windows are okay
2. Occasional staples are acceptable
3. Even spiral binders can be accepted (like notebooks)  - No Kleenexes or tissue paper, no dark paper (like red, navy, black..., no neon paper, no fluorescent paper, no carbon paper, no pressboard boxes like cereal, or Kleenex, crackers or frozen food

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MILK JUGS:  

HDPE (#2) PLASTIC:   

Laundry detergent, frozen juice, coffee, hydrogen peroxide, kitty litter jugs, ice cream buckets (remove handles)

PET (#1) PLASTIC:

Water bottles, pop bottles, juice bottles, salad dressing, ketchup, mayonnaise, parmesan cheese, etc.  NO clam shell containers (used for fresh fruit, muffins, etc)

1. Rinse out please!  Doesn't have to be sparkling clean - just a quick rinse
2. Remove the caps from the jug and deposit them separately into the same bin
3. Look on the bottom of your plastic - find the number inside of the triangle.  We take ONLY #1 and #2.  If there is no triangle - chances are that your plastic is NOT RECYCLABLE.  Please discard.
4. NO jugs from toxics like: motor oil, transmission fluid, herbicide, pesticide, medical waste, or hazardous waste!!

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Corrugated Cardboard and Paper Grocery Sacks:

1. NO pizza boxes (because of food residue)
2. NO plastic wrapped around the cardboard
3. NO concentrated soda pop bags left in the cardboard
4. NO plastic or Styrofoam or trash left inside
5. NO cardboard tubes like paper towel or toilet paper or oatmeal containers
6. NO pressboard - (pressboard is non-corrugated cardboard like Kleenex boxes, or Twinkies boxes, or crackers boxes, or pop/beer boxes, or Little Debbie Snacks boxes, etc)  LOOK at the edge of the cardboard.  If it is not corrugated, then we cannot recycle it.  Corrugation looks like "honeycomb" or "waffle-edging".

_________________________________________________________________                 AT THIS KIMBALL RECYCLE FACILITY, WE DO NOT TAKE:

1. NO cell phones - take unbroken cell phones to DOVES next to Kimball City Office
2. NO vehicle batteries - take them to NORBERG AUTOMOTIVE at #5 Hilltop Dr to help support our FFA in the recycling efforts
3. NO tire tubes - take them to FRENCHMAN VALLEY COOP at 1101 S. Hwy 71 to help support our FFA
4. NO used motor oil
5. NO clothing - take to the "garage sale building" at 3rd and Webster (just west of Pizza Hut)  Kerry O'Dean is your contact person there
6. NO used furniture, etc - take to Kerry O'Dean
7. NO eyeglasses-take unbroken eyeglasses to Bob Jenner at FirsTier Bank and the Lions Club will distribute to those who need them.
8. NO electronics - we will try to host an Electronics Recycling Day once a year, or:  Alliance Recycle Center at 308-762-1729 will accept your electronics for a nominal fee:  $10-$20 for a computer/$25-$50 for a pickup load of electronics