Residential Services – BLUE RECYCLING Container
How to Use the Recycling Cart - weekly service
DO NOT RECYCLE: Ceramics, window glass, drinking glasses, lightbulbs, food, garbage and organic or green waste materials, Styrofoam or polystyrene packing peanuts, metal pipe or plumbing fixtures or appliances, or hazardous waste.
Please put these items in the blue recycling cart:
Paper
- Books
- Boxes, Packages
- Carbonless Paper
- Cardboard
- Catalogs
- Cereal boxes
- Colored/Construction paper
- Computer paper
- Copy paper
- Coupons
- Detergent boxes
- Egg cartons (paper only, no Styrofoam)
- Envelopes with plastic windows
- Frozen food boxes
- Gift wrap
- Gift Tissue Paper
- Junk mail
- Magazines
- Manila folders
- Newspapers and inserts
- Office Paper
- Paper (adhesive/post its)
- Paper bags
- Paper packaging with remnant tape
- Pet food bags
- Ribbon
- Shredded paper (In a clear plastic bag)
- Telephone Books
Glass
- Rinsed; all colors (lids, caps OK)
- Bottles/Beverage containers
- Jars
- Wine Bottles
Plastics
- Containers only; empty; rinsed with arrows #1 - #5, (lids, caps OK)
- Bleach bottles
- Buckets
- Beverage containers (soda, water, juice)
- Detergent bottles
- Food containers (empty)
- Household cleaning containers
- Milk jugs
- Salad dressing bottles (rinsed)
- Shampoo/Conditioner bottles
- Water jugs
Metal
- Aerosol cans (empty)
- Aluminum cans
- Aluminum foil (clean)
- Aluminum pie plates
- Beverage cans
- Food cans (clean)
- Pet food cans
- Steel cans
- Tin cans