Paper:
- Cardboard/brown paper bags: please flatten
- Magazines/catalogs
- Newspaper: includes newspaper and inserts only
- Office
paper/opened mail: includes adding machine tape, blueprints, brochures/pamphlets, computer
printouts, FAX paper, file folders (manila or pastel-colored only),
greeting cards, index cards, letterhead, loose-leaf paper, memos &
sticky notes, legal pad paper (pastel-colored), slick/glossy ads &
brochures, stationery & letters, white and pastel-colored paper
& envelopes.
No need to remove these:
paper clips, metal fasteners,
staples, stamps and address labels on envelopes, windows in envelopes,
sticky notes, rubber bands, tape, plastic tabs, wire or plastic spiral
bindings.
- Paperboard: includes cereal/cracker boxes (throw away inside bag), gift/shirt boxes, hanging
file folders, paper egg cartons, paper tubes (e.g. paper towel tubes),
shoe boxes, six-pack and 12-pack cartons/boxes, soap/facial tissue
boxes.
- Phone
books
Containers
- aluminum – do not crush or flatten cans, ball clean foil to 2
inches or larger (no flat or small balled up foil, please)
- glass bottles & jars – please rinse, labels are okay, remove
and recycle metal lids/caps, avoid breaking glass
- steel/tin cans – please rinse, pinch the open end of cans
slightly,
labels are okay
- empty aerosol cans
- plastic #1-7 bottles, jugs, tubs and screw top jars – includes milk jugs, soda bottles,
shampoo bottles, etc. Remove all caps and throw all plastic caps
away. Empty all liquids and rinse.
- Paper milk/soy cartons/drink boxes - please rinse. Do not
flatten.
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