Baltimore County begins single-stream recycling Monday, allowing a new assortment of materials to be placed in a single bin for pickup.

Residents can use containers up to 34-gallon capacity, trash cans up to 34-gallon capacity or small cardboard boxes - not plastic bags. Paper and cardboard may also be tied in bundles with nonplastic string or placed in paper bags. Officials ask that residents remove lids and not use wheeled containers.

And so they know it's for recycling, mark the containers with an "X" or "recycle," or pick up a sticker from Baltimore County senior centers or public libraries or the trash and recycling drop-off centers in White Marsh, Cockeysville, and Halethorpe.

Officials have mailed schedules and guides to residents.

For more information or a copy, go to bcrecycles.com or call 410-887-2000.

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