Recycling in your home!
TIPS FOR EASY RECYCLING
Make recycling easy in your home by creating a “Recycling Station” in your kitchen or garage and pair your trash can with a recycling bin.
- Rinse out containers or jars that contained food or liquids (milk jugs, yogurt containers, peanut butter jars, shampoo or laundry detergent bottles, etc.
- Break down all cardboard boxes (including cereal or cracker boxes, tissue boxes, etc.). Pizza boxes are ok as long as they are free of grease and/or food
- Empty recyclables into your curbside cart loose; do not place them in a plastic bag.
4. Do not contaminate your recycling with trash or yard waste, recycle smart
Plastic bags and plastic film CANNOT be recycled in your mixed recycling cart.
Many stores will take them back, so you can bag up your clean and dry bread bags, tortilla bags, dry cleaning bags, and other film plastic to take back to the store on your next visit. To find a store that accepts them near you, visit NextTrex or Earth911 for more info. Whether you drop off film plastic at a take-back location or place it in your garbage can, knot it before you toss it to prevent airborne litter.
Remember, all the materials we recycle are made back into new goods, but the “recycling loop” is only closed if we also purchase these products made with recycled content.
AS OF JANUARY 1, 2022, FOOD SCRAPS GO IN YOUR GREEN WASTE CART! IF IT GROWS, IT GOES! NO RAW MEAT OR LIQUIDS!
PLASTICS
REMEMBER – EMPTY, CLEAN, DRY & LOOSE!
Soda bottles, shampoo, conditioner, soap bottles, milk jugs, condiment bottles, food containers (all plastic), medication bottles, plastic tubs, lids, #1, #2, #5 plastics
When in doubt:
- Check the What Goes Where App
- Throw it out
NO, NOPE, NEVER!
Styrofoam anything, Capri sun wrappers, toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes, straws, small toys, rope, string, strapping, #3, #4, #6 & #7 plastics
GLASS
REMEMBER EMPTY, CLEAN, DRY & LOOSE!
Soda bottles, liquor bottles, beer bottles, food jars, condiment jars, jam jars
When in doubt:
- Check the What Goes Where App
- Throw it out
NO, NOPE, NEVER!
METAL
Remember Empty, Clean, Dry & Loose
Soda cans, food cans, metal pans, metal tools, sheet metal
When in doubt:
- Check the What Goes Where App
- Throw it out
NO, NOPE, NEVER!
Filing cabinets, metal furniture, bicycles, lawnmowers, electronics, propane tanks, gas tanks, BBQ pits
PAPER
Newspaper, copy paper, books, magazines, nonglossy wrapping paper, nongreasy no food stuck to it pizza boxes, cardboard (flattened), paper towel tubes, toilet paper tubes, shredded paper (in CLEAR plastic bags only), cereal boxes, shipping boxes, telephone books, junk mail (remove personal info).
When in doubt:
- Check the What Goes Where App
- Throw it out
