What and Where to Recycle

 

 

 

 

 

Cardboard

Cardboard and paperboard, such as corrugated cardboard, brown paper bags, and cereal boxes.

 

· Flatten all cardboard

      to conserve space

· Remove all cereal box liners, packing materials, or Styrofoam from the boxes

· No plastic bags, only brown paper bags. Recycle your plastic grocery bags at the Central Recycling Drive-Thru Center only

 

Not accepted:

Juice boxes, juice cartons, milk cartons, waxed boxes, soiled, wet cardboard, or cardboard with food residue .

 

Brown Glass Bottles

Clear Glass Bottles

Green Glass Bottles Must be food, beverage, or vitamin containers.

· Keep brown, clear and green glass bottles separate from each other.

· Remove all lids

· Recycle metal lids with metal. Throw away plastic lids in your household trash, or use for art projects

· Rinse all containers clean! If not free from food     and odor, they will be thrown away, not recycled

· No lids

· No bags of any kind

 

Not accepted:

Ceramic dishes, drinking glasses, glass cookware (Pyrex), light bulbs, mirrors, blue glass, window glass, and plate glass

 

Magazines

 Magazines, catalogues.

 NO BAGS *

 

*If using our drop-off recycling stations, keep magazines separate from  newspapers by placing magazines in brown paper bags. No Plastic Bags.

 

Metal Food and 

  Drink Cans                                  

Aluminum, steel, and tin food and beverage cans and metal lids.

 

All  clean aluminum, steel, bimetal, and tin cans accepted. Rinse all containers clean!

 

If not free from food

and odor, they will be thrown away, not recycled

 

· NO AEROSOL CANS They will explode in our can crusher

· No bags of any kind

· Aluminum foil accepted at the Central Recycling Drive-Thru Center only  

 

 

 

 

 

 

· NO AEROSOL CANS They will explode in our can crusher

· No bags of any kind

· Aluminum foil accepted at the Central Recycling Drive-Thru Center only  

 

Not accepted:

* Scrap metal, appliances, cookie sheets, dirty cans, paint and aerosol cans, pots and pans, rusty cans, sheet metal and wire   

 

Newspapers

Newspapers, including glossy inserts and ads.

NO BAGS *

 

*If using our drop-off recycling stations, keep newspapers separate from magazines by placing magazines in brown paper bags. No Plastic Bags.

 

 

 

 

* See Free Recycling Days

Mixed Office Paper Drive-Thru Center Only

Colored and white paper.

 

· Colored “sticky” notes

· Envelopes, with or without windows

· Fax paper

· Junk mail

· Photocopy paper

· Scratch paper

· Typing paper

· Colored ink ok

No bags of any kind

 

Plastic Bottles, #1

#1 (PETE) plastics are clear or transparent colored bottles such as two liter soda bottles. Look for this symbol:

on the bottom.

 

· Only containers with a small neck

· No wide necks like yogurt, or butter tubs

· Remove all lids and place them in your household trash

· Please crush to save space

· No lids

· No bags of any kind

 

Not accepted:

Automotive product bottles (oil, transmission fluid etc.), butter tubs, yogurt or cottage cheese containers, ice cream buckets, deli containers, molded plastic or Styrofoam trays. Styrofoam packing peanuts and  are accepted at the Central Drive-Thru Center only.

 

Plastic Bottles

#2 (HDPE) plastics are usually opaque bottles that are white or colored; used for milk, soap, or laundry detergent. Look for  this symbol on

the bottom:

Same restrictions

as for #1 plastics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Central Recycling Drive-Thru Center is located at the corner of Old Highway 46 and Greasy Creek Road. It is open Monday-Saturday, 8 am-4 pm. Outdoor cardboard bins available when drive-thru closed. Except on government holidays and weekends of government holidays when the Center and bins close at 4  pm Saturdays.

 

Drop-Off Recycling Stations are unstaffed, open 24 hours:Cordry-Sweetwater (next to the Conservancy District Office); Van Buren (On State Road 135 S., next to Van Buren Elementary)