Boulder County Recycling, YES Recyclable

These items ARE all recyclable at the Boulder County Recycling Center drop-off, 1901 63rd St., Boulder. Please check your local drop-off or curbside program for specifics about what they collect.

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

Commingled (food and beverage) containers: Please prepare materials as shown below. If these materials are collected "commingled" in your community, it means all the items can be included in one bin.

Aluminum – do not crush or flatten cans, ball clean foil to 2 inches or larger or flatten (no 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 closed, labels are okay, empty aerosol cans are okay

Plastic #1 (bottles, jugs, screw top jars only), plastic #2 (bottles, jugs only) – includes milk jugs, soda bottles, most shampoo bottles, etc. Please rinse, flatten gallon jugs and bottles 1-liter and larger

Paper milk/soy cartons/drink boxes - please rinse and flatten