Salinas Valley Solid Waste Authority
 
 
 
 

How Recycling Works

Recycle at Home-It’s Easy!
All homes and some apartment buildings have recycling collection service. If you're not sure, ask your parents or your buidling manager. If you don't have a recycling program, ask how you can start one.

So it’s easy for you and your family to recycle the things listed below by placing them in your special recycling cart. 

Soda cans and bottles
Juice & milk bottles and cartons
Food cans, like for soups and beans
Newspaper
Magazines
Catalogs
Comic books
Drawings
Old homework
Flyers
Cereal boxes
Cracker and cookie boxes
Shampoo bottles
Yogurt tubs
Mail
Envelopes
paper packaging
newspaper
cereal
jarritos glass bottle junk mail
plastics
cans

 

make money recycling imageRecycle and Make Some Money!

If your mom and dad will help you, you can earn a little extra money bytaking bottles andcans marked with “CRV” to a “buy-back center.” Buy-back centers give you cash back for returning certain kinds of bottles and cans. Look for the CRV label on the bottle or can.crv label

 




 
 
Salinas Valley Solid Waste Authority
PO Box 2159 • Salinas, CA 93901 • Phone: (831) 775-3000 • Fax: (831) 755-1322 • info@svswa.org