Welcome to Republic Services
Mountain Home Air Force Base, ID
Republic Services provides residential recycling and waste collection services at Mountain Home AFB, ID. We offer one-stop shopping for waste removal needs. Although we specialize in recycling and solid waste collection, our services go far beyond just emptying the trash bins.
Mountain Home Air Force Base
customer service
Holiday schedule
We observe the following holidays:
New Year’s Day
Memorial Day
Fourth of July
Labor Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day
- If your pickup day falls on or after the holiday, it will be delayed by one day.
- Holidays falling on the weekend will not delay collection.
How can we help?
Regional facilities
Call the numbers below for current rates, and for a list of acceptable/unacceptable materials.
Landfills
Bennett Road Transfer Station
Located at Old Oregon Trail Road, just off Exit 99 on Interstate 84
6100 SE County Landfill Road
Phone: (208) 943-1474
If unable to reach the landfill during business hours contact the Clerk’s office at (208) 587-2130 EXT. 500
Hours of Operation: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. – Monday through Saturday
* Closed on New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
The above site is operated by Elmore County. For more information about the above sites, including fees and acceptable/unacceptable materials, please visit their website
Recycle centers
Recycling centers vary in terms of the types of materials they take. For more information about what materials are accepted at specific centers, please call in advance.
Public Works Department
(close to the animal shelter)
1150 South Main Street
Mountain Home, ID 83647
24-hour drop-off site
United Metals
208-587-7511
1190 Airbase Rd
Mountain Home, ID 83647
Monday to Friday 8 am to 5 pm
Saturday 8 am to noon
Kid's corner
Trash day maze
Help the truck driver navigate his route to pick up the neighborhood’s trash and recycling. Download
Electronics word search
Our electronics are tangled. Can you help find which electronics are recyclable? Download
Outdoors bingo
Take a walk around your neighborhood with this Bingo sheet. Find four in a row! Download
Take a virtual field trip
Take your students on a virtual field trip of how a recycling center and a modern landfill works. These videos are designed to inform specific lessons in 3rd-5th grade, 6th-8th grade, and 9th-12th grade, but can also be used outside of those lessons to take your students on a journey through the process!
Recycling center video tour
3rd - 5th Grade Video is featured below
FAQs
Billing & Accounts
Start Service/Billing: Call the Mountain Home AFB at 208-587-4237 to begin residential trash and recycling service or inquire about your bill.
Collection Guidelines & Reporting an Issue
Trash Guidelines
- Trash and recycling must be set out by 7 AM with the lids closed. Place carts 3ft. from other carts and objects (fire hydrants, mailboxes, cars, utility poles) with the handle towards the house. Make sure carts are in a safe and accessible location with 14’ of overhead clearance. Do not block sidewalks. All containers must be removed from the curbside within 24 hours.
- Bag trash to prevent blowing during service.
- All residents will receive a 95-gallon trash cart for automated pick-up.
- Do not overload the cart or pack so tightly that the contents are difficult to remove. Loose trash bags will not be collected.
- No tires, liquids, hazardous waste, or vehicle batteries allowed in the trash cart. See the HHW section for more information.
Bulky Waste & Appliances
Republic Services provides Non-Freon appliances, furniture, and other large item collection free of charge. Bulky items must be outside and visible to the driver. To arrange for a special pick-up call (208) 587-4237.
Items are only collected on Fridays* during Orange weeks.
*Your 2024 calendar will show Thursday pick up but the day change was made after the calendars were mailed.
Hazardous Waste & Prohibited Materials
The following materials will not be accepted: fluorescent tubes, CFL bulbs, paint, stain, varnish, computer monitors, televisions, tires, vehicle batteries, gasoline, oil, pesticides, and herbicides.
Paint
Paint in a hardened state may be thrown in your regular trash cart. This can be accomplished by mixing it with kitty litter or cracking the lid and letting it dry.
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Recycling Guidelines
- Lift the lid of the recycling bin and the underside will have a decal that will have either an orange or black background. Your recycling will be collected on the corresponding orange or black weeks on your collection calendar.
- Recycling pick-up occurs on your trash day, every other week. Place recycle cart curbside by 7 am.
- All customers will receive a 95-gallon no-sort recycling cart (65-gallon carts are available upon request for the same price as the standard 95-gallon cart).
- All-in-One Recycling: recyclable items may be mixed in a cart.
- No glass, Styrofoam, or yard waste in the recycling cart.
- Leave recycling loose in a cart or use paper bags to contain materials.
- No Plastic bags.
- Flatten or cut down boxes to fit in the cart. The lid must be able to close.
Benefits of Recycling
- Recycling extends the life of the landfill by diverting waste.
- Natural gas recycling trucks improve local air quality.
- Recycling conserves natural resources and energy.
- Recycling decreases the burning of fossil fuels and reduces the pollutants emitted into the atmosphere.
Call 208-587-1265.
Call 208-587-1265.
New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day
During holiday weeks, if your normal collection day falls on or after the holiday, your collection will be delayed by one day. Holidays falling on the weekend will not delay collection.
Recycling Questions
Recyclable Materials (collected loose in the blue cart – no bags):
Newspapers: including inserts, magazines, and catalogs.
Aluminum and Steel (Tin): cans (rinse empty cans - labels are okay - aerosol cans must be empty - pesticide cans are prohibited), pie tins (rinsed), wire hangers (stripped of foam and paper), clean aluminum foil.
Mixed Paper: junk mail, white or pastel ledger, cereal and frozen food boxes, paper bags, envelopes, fax paper, computer paper, brochures, greeting cards and wrapping paper without foil, construction paper.
Plastics: plastic milk jugs, pop/soda bottles, fruit juice bottles and jugs, detergent jugs, lightweight water bottles, #5 plastic food tubs. No plastics bags or rigid plastics marked #3 through #7.
Corrugated cardboard: break boxes down to fit inside the cart or take them to a recycling center.
What items are NOT accepted?
- Paper plates & cups
- Plastic bags and rigid plastics marked #3 through #7
- Plastic clamshell containers
- Polystyrene (Styrofoam®/Packaging)
- Tissues
- Paper towels
- Napkins
- Food-contaminated containers
- Foil-lined items like cookie and chip bags
- Pizza boxes
- Cardboard milk and juice cartons
- Grass clippings
- Glass - is NOT collected curbside.
Recycling Drop-Site
Republic Services provides a recycling drop-site for Elmore County residents and businesses. It is located at 4707 Old Highway 30. It is accessible seven days per week. Refer to the acceptable recycling materials listed above.
Non-recyclables contaminate recycling loads, and need to be removed during the sorting process. Some items may also contaminate clean recyclable items (ex. pasta sauce jar with sauce still in it, can soak into clean office paper which is then no longer recyclable either).
If our drivers notice a lot of contamination in your recycle cart or bin, we may not be able to service it as recycling and may tag it to have it serviced as trash (in which case you may be charged).
No yard waste in the recycle cart.
