What Can Be Recycled

For Your Information

• 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) 

Do Not Put in Your Blue Cart

• Ceramic dishes
• Disposable diapers
• Drinking glasses
• Facial tissues
• Paper towels, napkins, paper plates, paper cups (Please place in your green cart)
• Plastic utensils
• Plastic hangers
• Metal hangers
• Metal paint cans
• Mirror or window glass
• Q-tips
• Sanitary napkins
• Polystyrene foam (including packaging materials)