Tips, websites, and information on recyclable items are listed below, and non-recyclable items are listed on this page.
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Plastics
Look for plastic bottles or containers with the numbers (#1-#7) on water bottles, soda bottles, milk jugs, oven-ready meal trays, detergent bottles, loose-leaf binders, plastic pages, medicine bottles, drinking straws, ketchup bottles, sour cream/butter/hummus tubs, compact disc jackets, plastic tableware, and Tupperware.
Metal
Aluminum cans, scrap metal, tin cans, clean pie plates or tins, unsoiled foil, pots, pans.
Cardboard
Cereal boxes, snack boxes, dairy and juice containers, packing boxes, corrugated cardboard and paperboard.
Tip: Shop for items with less packaging!
Paper
Office paper, junk mail, paper bags, colored paper, magazines, newspapers, and phonebooks.
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Glass
Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs (CFLs), bottles (clear and colored), jars (with lids removed).
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Food Waste
Food scraps, fish wastes, solid and liquid fats.
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Plastics
Grocery bags, plastic bags, ALL STYROFOAM (to-go boxes, cups, plates, coolers, packing materials).
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Metal
Aerosol spray cans, soiled or used aluminum foil, soiled tin cans.
Cardboard
Soiled pizza or frozen food boxes, waxed cardboard, waxed milk cartons, soiled cardboard (ex: grease, mold, or paint splattered).
Paper
Soiled paper, Wax or Plastic-coated paper, used paper towels, napkins, tissues and plates.
Glass
Mirrors, glassware (cups, glasses, plates).
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