Corrugated Cardboard

• Includes packing boxes. Remove all packing materials and flatten.
• Cereal and food boxes accepted, but not those that are wax-coated.
• Boxes that may have been slightly wet are OK, but no boxes that are very dirty or have been contaminated with oil.
• Cardboard egg cartons may also be recycled, but not Styrofoam or plastic cartons.
• Paper sacks may be included with cardboard.

Glass

• Any color, includes mirrors, but not ceramics.
• Remove lids. Metal lids may be place with steel.
• Paper labels OK.
• Broken glass is OK as long as it is wrapped or boxed so that people handling it will not be cut

Metal

• Sort metal into aluminum and tin/steel. It may be helpful to note that steel will attract a magnet but aluminum will not.
• Aluminum beverage cans only.
• No need to remove paper labels.

Mixed paper

• Includes office paper, junk mail, slick paper (glossy ads), catalogs, magazines, phone books, and shredded paper
• Helpful to separate out catalogs, and magazines from the other paper. Please separate magazines from catalogs. Magazines are stapled; catalogs have glued bindings. However, if the glued binding is narrow, about 1/4 inch, the item may be placed with either catalogs or magazines. Glossy ads may also be placed with magazines.
• Envelopes with plastic windows OK.
• Staples are OK but please remove paper clips, metal clips, and rubber bands.
• No paper that has been wet or is very dirty.
• No colored construction paper.

Newspapers

• Helpful to remove glossy ads and place with mixed paper above, but not required.
• No newspaper that has been wet. If newspaper was/is wet, it must be thrown away.
• Remove rubber bands or plastic holders.

Plastic numbered 1 or 2

• The recycling number is usually stamped on the bottom of the container.
• Remove lids and rinse containers.
• No solid dark colored plastic (black, brown, or green). Example: black food trays.
• No cooking oil or motor oil containers. Oil cannot be removed from these containers and they must be thrown away.
• Helpful if plastic is flattened as much as possible.
• Also helpful if plastic is sorted as follows:
1. Clear and semi-transparent plastic labeled #1. This includes any color that you can see through. Example: water bottles, some vitamin and some liquid soap bottles.
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2. Solid color plastic labeled #1 or #2. This plastic cannot be seen through at all. Example: detergent bottles.
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3. Semi-translucent plastic labeled #2. Example: milk jugs, vinegar bottles.
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• No plastic with any number other than 1 or 2. Example: Arizona plastic tea bottles are numbered 7. Write Arizona tea a letter and ask that they switch to recyclable containers.