Tuesday Tips - List of Recyclable and Non-Recyclable Materials
Following is a guideline as to what can and cannot be recycled
PAPER
• All office paper
• White paper
• Colored paper
• Newspaper
• Magazines
• Catalogs
• Phonebooks
• Junk mail
• Paperboard
• Tissue boxes
• Heavy weight folders
• Paper towel and toilet paper rolls
• Food packaging (un-waxed only please)
• Paper milk, juice and soy milk cartons (No need to rinse containers)
• Books: all soft cover, hard covers should be ripped off
• Brown paper bags
Cardboard
• Cardboard
• Corrugated cardboard
• Cereal boxes
• Shoeboxes
• etc.
Metal
• Metal and tin beverage containers
• Metal and tin food containers
• Aluminum foil
• Aluminum take-out containers
• Aluminum pie plates and trays
• Kitchen cookware: metal pots, pans, tins and utensils
Glass
• All colors glass bottles and jars
• Clear glass
• Green glass
• Brown glass
• Blue glass
• Glass food containers
• Beer and wine bottles
Plastic
• All plastics numbers 1-7 (Excluding #6) - see chart below. Check the number on the container. Keep lids on.
• Food and beverage containers
• Screw top jars
• Deli-style containers
• Clam-shell take-out containers
• Plastic cups (lids and straws removed)
• Milk jugs
• Soap bottles
• Plastic jugs: soda bottles, laundry detergent jugs
Items that cannot be recycled
• Napkins
• Tissue paper
• Paper towels
• Wax paper
• Wrapping paper
• Bubble wrap
• Waxed/waterproof cardboard
• Motor oil cans
• Metal and cardboard containers contaminated with oil based products
• Paint cans
• Light bulbs
• Mirror glass
• Window glass
• Ceramic or marble
• Crystal
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- Carole Zellers
