Acceptable
- Recycling Codes #1 through #5 have always been accepted. #1 and #2 are the most common and most valuable.
- Not smaller than a yogurt cup. Size is important!
- Clean Aluminum Foil
- Clean (not shredded) paper and cardboard
- What Goes Where?
Unacceptable – Place in your trash bin
- No food, No grease, No residue of any kind. Cleanliness is important!
- Nothing smaller than a yogurt cup. Size is important!
- No plastic bags of any kind. Paper bags are OK if clean and empty.
- No foil wrapping paper. Clean Aluminum Foil goes in the Recycling Bin.
- No multi-ply flexible containers – Nothing made of more than one kind of material or recycling code.
- No Styrofoam
- No Recycling Code 9 (ABS) or PA (POLYAMIDE). Place in your trash bin.
Too Small – Place in your trash bin
- Soda bottle lids not on bottle
- Plastic Single shot liqueur bottle
- Glass single shot liquor bottle
- Plastic Bread ties or plastic clip
- Small medication bottles
- Medication bottle caps
Jams up the sorting machine – Place in your trash bin
- Plastic bags of any kind
- Plastic Silverware
- Coat Hangers. No wire.
- No shredded paper
- Dog / Cat food bag (Plastic & Paper Combo bag)
- Plastic bags of any kind (again)
- No ZipLock bags
- No garbage bags
- No recycling in a garbage bag
- No plastic shopping bags
