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ear Northwest Is your house in South Bend's Environmental Services The Near ? Working together, we can all do our part Northwest eighborhood need of repair. to keep South Bend Clean, Green, and Cool! Neighborhood Look no further,the South - CURBSIDE RECYCLING TIPS - continued its Bend Home Improvement ♦ Trash containers must be out by 6:00 revitalization work in 2010,impacting 23 Program (SBHIP) can help a.m.on the properties.Nine properties along Cottage South Bend single family regular scheduled Grove, Lindsey,and Van Buren streets are homeowners by providing day of pickup. undergoing rehabilitation,with one new assistance with certain Please do not set construction project underway. In approved home repairs such �l out trash or yard partnership with the City,the NNN received as roof,furnace, electrical, or waste more than a $1.055 million grant to turn vacant and plumbing. The SBHIP also 24 abandoned lots into homes. helps with exterior structural scheduled hours before repairs that will make a scheduled pickup. The NNN also partnered with the positive impact on the ♦ Place the container two feet from the University of Notre Dame Students for New neighborhood. curb (or alley line) with the handle Urbanism, developing two new facing toward the house, arrows neighborhood appropriate construction Applicants may be eligible for facing toward curb/alley line. designs. either a grant or a loan/grant ♦ Remove container from the curb by Through the organization of the Vacant and combination to fund the the end of the collection day. Abandoned Properties Committee, NNN approved repairs on their ♦ "No Parking"imprint will help keep home. cars from blocking access to the residents were able to purchase 18 � g properties in 2010,removing them from I containers. the abandoned properties list. ♦ Residents may add their address on Additionally, NNN's Adopt-a-Block litter the side of the container for better reduction program boasted a record 130 tracking. adopted blocks. Events such as Arts Cafe ♦ Rinse containers frequently to and Garden Walk celebrated and eliminate odors. showcased the neighborhood. Applicants that are eligible for ♦ Only bagged trash into the container. a full grant may receive up to ♦ Pet/animal waste should be sealed in SHREDDED PAPER 101 $17,000 in repairs. If the cost a plastic bag and placed in the solid of approved repairs exceeds Waste container. It should never be Shredded Paper is recyclable just like most the $17,000 grant amount,an mixed in with yard waste or thrown other types of paper.The difference is that into the street, creeks,stream,river, uncontained shredded paper is difficult to sort additional$5,000 can be P P or storm drain. from other material and clogs the awarded in the form of a due-upon-sale mortgage loan ♦ Keep lids closed to prevent rain,snow mechanical sort systems.This interferes with P recycling of shredded paper which is payable when the and animals getting into the as well as recycling of other owner sells the house,no container. items. longer resides in the home, or ♦ Any item that does not fit inside the Please contain your upon death. city trash container is considered a "special item" and requires special shredded paper by tying it - Applicants that are eligible for pickup. Residents receive one free off in a clear plastic trash - the loan rant combination _ A /g scheduled "special item" pickup per bag.This will allow for your shredded paper to be hand may receive up to $34,000 in month, call 277-8515 to schedule. �,m.,_ sorted and recycled as you repairs,with 50%in the form Please do not place item at the curb intended.These bags are available at most of a grant.All loans secured until you have scheduled the pickup. grocery stores,hardware stores,office supply by the home cannot exceed ♦ New homeowners or renters within stores,or you can order them direct from 120% of the value of the the city limits who find that there is Borden Waste-Away Service. home. no container on the new premises, For more information,contact Solid Waste For questions or to determine should call 277-8823 to request a Management District of St Joseph County your eligibility for this container. 235-9971 or Borden Waste-Away Service,Inc. program,please call the ♦ Households will be monitored for the (800)683-6801. Division of Community number of containers being used and Development at 574-235- billed accordingly. Visit Our Website at 9660. Questions: Bureau of Solid Waste @ www.SouthBendIN.gov! 277.8823