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Residential Recycling
What Can I Recycle?
Place all recyclables—glass, plastic bottles, metal cans, and mixed paper in one container. All material must be clean. Do not put trash, garbage, or non-recyclables in your recycling cart or bin.
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Yes |
Rinsed and Empty, glass food and beverage containers should be
recycled. Lids and labels can stay on. |
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No |
Dishes, light bulbs, fluorescent bulbs*, windows, mirror glass or glass
cookware. They melt at a different temperature from glass bottles. |
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Yes |
Rinsed and Empty, tin, aluminum and steel food and beverage
cans; lids and labels can stay on. Clean Aluminum pie plates and foil.
Aerosol can. Do not crush metal containers. |
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No |
Auto parts, kitchen supplies, bicycles, and furniture. |
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Yes |
Empty, narrow-necked bottles (plastic codes 1 through 7). These include water, soda, milk,
juice, and detergent bottles. Lids and labels can stay on. Bags within
Bags, Wide-mouthed containers, Rigid Plastics (large toys, jugs, laundry
baskets, lawn furniture, butter tubs, yogurt cups, medicine bottles). |
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No |
Bottles from automotive products, pesticides or other toxins. Foam
products (e.g. cups, peanuts, trays), plastic food wrapping, food/computer
product clamshells. |
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Yes |
Drink containers - Paper-based egg and berry cartons are
okay, if clean. Gavel-topped containers, e.g. Juice & milk (pour spouts are okay; multi-layered (e.g. plastic and metal lining) are NOT to be included.)
Mixed paper - Recycle all papers together including white and colored
papers, envelopes, forms, file folders, tablets, junk mail, cereal boxes,
wrapping paper, catalogs, magazines and phone books. It is okay to
include metal staples, clips, glue, labels, and plastic windows on
envelopes. Please remove plastic bindings and dividers from
documents. Photos are okay, but not "instant" film (eg. Polaroids).
Newspaper - All paper-based inserts that come with the newspaper
can be recycled. Put them loosely into the cart. Please remove
internal plastic baggies (e.g. ad sections).
Corrugated cardboard boxes and brown paper bags - Remove
packaging, then flatten and place in cart or bin.
Shredded Paper - For residents shredding their outgoing fiber
(usually for information security concerns), paper bagging is advised,
but not recommended for any other reason. |
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No |
Plastic-based foam egg cartons, Clamshell berry containers, Plastic coated
(laminated) paper, blueprints, waxed cardboard, cups/plates,
tissues, paper towels, or "instant" film (eg. Polaroids) and food contaminated
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* Fluorescent bulbs and other mercury-containing items (e.g. thermometers) are best disposed of at residential Household Hazardous Waste Collection sites. Visit the US Environmental Protection Agency to find out what to do when a mercury-containing item breaks.
The District recycles:
- Aerosol cans
- Aluminum foil and aluminum pie pans
- Aluminum food and beverage containers
- Books (including paperbacks, textbooks, and hardbacks)
- Brown paper bags (Kraft)
- Cardboard and paperboard boxes (including cereal boxes without liners)
- Computer printouts
- Corrugated cardboard boxes
- Ferrous and bimetal food and beverage containers
- Glass containers such as jars and bottles
- Junk mail
- Magazines and catalogs
- Milk and juice cartons
- Narrow-neck plastic containers (other than for motor oil) that carry plastic
resin identification codes 1 through 7
- Newspapers (including all inserts)
- Non-metallic wrapping paper
- Office paper (including typing, fax, copy, letterhead, and NCR) and envelopes
- Plastic bags, e.g., grocery bags, newspaper bags, and shopping bags. Please put
your plastic bags into one plastic bag then place it in your recycling container.
- We will accept more than one bag of plastic bags.
- Rigid plastics including plastic milk/soda crates, plastic buckets with metal handles,
plastic laundry baskets, plastic lawn furniture, plastic totes, plastic drums, plastic coolers,
plastic flower pots, plastic drinking cups/glasses, plastic 5-gallon water bottles, plastic pallets,
plastic toys, and empty plastic garbage/recycling bins
- Telephone books
- Wide-mouth containers such as peanut butter, margarine/butter tubs, yogurt, cottage,
cheese, yogurt, sour cream, mayonnaise, whipped topping, and prescription (remove the
identification label) and over-the- counter medicine bottles. (Please note that the lids and
caps do not need to be removed.) Please do not include Styrofoam meat trays, lunch
“clamshells” or foam packaging, such as “peanuts.”
Do not put the following items in your recycling cart or bin:
- Carpet/upholstery
- Carry-out containers
- Clothing
- Diapers
- Furniture/toys
- Kitchen appliances or utensils
- Leaves/dirt
- Pizza boxes
- Wire hangers
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