Worth

• Aluminum cans (please empty, do not crush or flatten)
• Aluminum foil (ball clean foil to 2 inches or larger, no flat foil or small balled up foil)
• Pie plates & trays (must be free of food)

• Food and Drink Cartons
• Milk, Soup, and Juice cartons and boxes (please empty and rinse, do not crush or flatten, plastic nozzles, caps and tabs can be left on)

• Food cans and lids (please empty and rinse, labels can be left on)
• Metal paint cans and lids (must be empty and dry, some dried paint residue is fine)
• Metal lids are recyclable
• NO utensils, propane tanks, wire hangers, or small appliances

• All colors are accepted (please empty and rinse, labels and lids can be left on, avoid breaking the glass)
• NO window or auto glass, bakeware, ceramics, mirrors, light bulbs, coffee pots or drinking glasses

Please recycle ONLY Bottles, Tubs, Jugs, and Jars – Regardless of the number.

• BOTTLES (i.e. empty water, soda, juice bottles, empty laundry detergent, soap and shampoo bottles, empty health and beauty products and cleaner bottles) ** Replace plastic screw-top caps on empty plastic bottles.**
• TUBS(i.e. empty coffee, tofu, cottage cheese, yogurt, margarine tubs, fruit or lettuce boxes)
• JUGS(i.e. empty milk and juice jugs)
• JARS(ie. empty mayo and peanut butter jars) Replace plastic screw top lids on empty plastic jars.
• NO plastic bags (grocery)
• NO plastic film (plastic wraps, sandwich bags, freezer bags, tarps)
• No plastic utensils or plates
• NO plastic cups, lids or straws
• NO black plastic
• NO plastic toys or hard plastic packaging
• NO candy wrappers, cereal bags, potato chip bags or snack bags
• NO empty motor oil, pesticide or chemical bottles
• NO Styrofoam, polystyrene
• NO straws, cup lids, paper or packing peanuts.

• Newspaper and inserts
• Magazines, catalogs, and phone books
• Office paper, notebooks (staples are okay, remove all metal clips and spirals and throw in trash), computer print outs, hanging file folders (remove metal and trash it), pastel colored sticky notes (no fluorescent), glossy brochures, index cards, greeting cards, stationary, fax paper, manila folders and envelopes (cellophane windows are ok to leave in)
• Junk mail (please remove all non-paper: plastic cards, magnets)
• Chipboard/paperboard – cereal, cracker, tissue, shoe, gift, and 6/12-pack boxes, paper towel tubes, and egg cartons
• Cardboard boxes must be flattened and cut to 3’x3’
• Brown paper grocery bags
• Paperback books (no hardcover books)
• NO used paper plates or pizza boxes, or fluorescent paper (they contaminate the paper stream with food, dye, or plastic coating) If pizza box top is clean you can tear it off and recycle it.
• NO paper towels, tissues, or napkins, which are not recyclable because the fibers are too small to reuse (please compost them with kitchen food scraps if possible)
• NO Shredded Paper – Loose shredded paper causes major sorting problems in the Recycling Facility, so please save your documents for a shred event or best practice is to tear off the confidential portion and recycle the rest of the sheet whole.
• NO frozen food boxes, which are made of a hybrid of paper and plastic, and are not wanted by paper mills.
• NO paper cups, which are also made of a hybrid of paper and plastic rendering them unrecyclable.