Residential Services – BROWN GARBAGE Container
How to Use the Brown Cart - weekly service
Please put these items in the brown garbage cart:
OK for Garbage
- 6-pack rings (please cut)
- Auto Glass
- Binders (plastic) – Please note these can be given to thrift stores for reuse.
- Carbon paper
- Cat or dog waste and litter (bagged)
- Cigarette Butts
- Cotton Balls
- Computer Disks
- Contaminated Paper, such as paper plates or food waste
- Deodorant Casing
- Diapers
- Drinking glasses
- Extension Cords
- Feminine Products
- Foam (all types)
- Food and snack waste (Try composting!)
- Fireplace Ash (Bagged)
- Hangers (dry cleaners will take back hangers)
- Hoses
- Ice cream wrappers
- Laminated items
- Leather
- Light bulbs (no fluorescent) – see Hazardous Waste page for disposal options
- Metallic wrapping paper
- Mirrors
- Rope
- Packing peanuts (bagged or take to a shipping store for reuse)
- Paper clips
- Photographs
- Plastic plants
- Q-tips
- Records, tapes, CD's
- Rubber bands
- Rubber/neoprene
- Rugs/mats
- Shoes (unwanted or can’t be donated)
- Shower curtains, liners
- Sponges
- Straws, Stir sticks (plastic)
- Stuffed animals, toys
- Styrofoam
- Tape
- Tempered Glass (Corning, Pyrex)
- Textiles (unwanted or can’t be donated)
- Toothpaste tubes
- Transparencies, microfilm, negatives (acetate)
- Utensils (plastic)
- Vacuum cleaner bags & dust (Must be bagged)
- Window Glass
- Wood (treated)