Please keep your recyclables empty, clean and dry.
You can leave staples and paper clips in your papers.
Use a spatula, spoon or paper towel to remove food residue. You can then place the paper towel in your green cart.
Plastic VHS cartridge can be recycled, but the actual tape cannot. Please pull out the tape and put it into the black landfill cart.
For large amounts of cardboard, flatten it and take it to your local recycling center.
Most recycling companies cannot accept any type of polystyrene foam because when it’s placed in a commingled bin and transported, it becomes contaminated with dirt and other materials. Because most curbside programs do not wash the material, recyclers have a hard time using it.
Put in Your Blue Cart
Glass
All colors, lids, caps
Bottles
CRV beverage containers
Jars
Metal
Aluminum cans
Aluminum foil (clean)
Aluminum pie plates
Cookie sheets
CRV beverage cans
Food cans (clean)
Pet food cans (clean)
Scrap metal
Tin cans
Paper
Books (paperback & hardback)
Boxes, packages
Carbonless paper
Cardboard (must fit in cart)
Catalogs
Colored and construction paper
Computer paper
Copy paper
Detergent boxes
Egg cartons (paper only; no polystyrene foam; if the eggs have broken put soiled cartons in Green Cart)
Envelopes with metal clasps (okay to leave the metal in)
Envelopes with plastic windows
Gift wrap (non-metallic)
Glossy paper
Magazines
Milk cartons
Newspapers and inserts
Paper bags
Paper packaging with remnant tape
Paperboard boxes (cereal & shoe boxes)
Paper shreds (in a brown paper bag or clear plastic bag)
Paper towel and toilet paper tubes
Pet food bags
Post-its
Telephone books
Tissue paper (gift type)
Plastic
Baby wipes containers
Bleach bottles
Buckets without handles
CRV beverage containers (soda, water, juice)
Detergent bottles
Food containers (no polystyrene foam)
Household cleaning containers (empty)
Lids and caps
Milk jugs
Plastic bags (put all dry and clean plastic bags in one) Bag-the-bags!
Plastic containers with recycling arrow #’s 1-7
Prescription bottles (empty)
Salad dressing bottles
Shampoo and conditioning bottles
Tub containers (Recycling arrow #’s 1-7)
Water jugs
Rigid plastics (such as buckets, laundry baskets, toys)
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Ceramic dishes
Disposable diapers
Drinking glasses
Facial tissues
Paper towels, napkins, paper plates, paper cups (Please place in your green cart)
