What Goes in the Recycling Cart?
Have your recycling containers accessible by 7:00 am on your scheduled collection day.
Place clean and dry recyclable items into the green recycling carts.
| Put all these materials in the Recycling Cart |
 Paper
- Paper, junk mail, catalogs, cardboard (flattened, less than 3'x3'), magazines, newspaper, telephone books, paper boxes (liners removed), gift wrap (no foil or ribbon).
- Plastic-coated paper cartons & boxes, including drink boxes (soy and juice, rinsed), frozen food boxes (clean), milk cartons (rinsed), juice cartons and ice cream cartons (flattened and no lids)*
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Plastics
- All plastic bottles and jugs (pop, milk) with lids removed
- Round plastic dairy tubs (margarine, yogurt)
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Metals
- Aluminum cans (rinsed)
- Tin cans (rinsed and labels
removed)
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Glass
- Bottles and jars of any color (rinsed and no lids)
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| * Not sure if a carton or box is plastic-coated or poly-coated? Use the scratch and tear test. If you scratch it and see wax, throw it into the Garbage. If you tear it and see a thin layer of plastic-coated paper, rinse, flatten and recycle!
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Reviewed the list, and still not sure?
Check out the list of What Goes in the Garbage Can and What Goes in the Yard Debris Cart, or call
206-682-3037.
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Aerosol Cans
Batteries
Carbon Paper
CDs
Ceramics or dishes
Detergent boxes
Fluorescent Tubes and Compact Lightbulbs
