What Can I Recycle?

What You Can & Cannot Recycle in Curbside Containers

Below is a listing of what you can and cannot recycle in your curbside bins. For a more extensive list, please visit Rumpke's website.

Mix all items together – no separation required
No need to remove labels
NEVER place medical sharps or needles in the recycling
Fact Sheet on Recycling Cups/Lids
Fact Sheet on Recycling Plastic Tubs
DON’T use plastic bags to sort or separate items
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Cartons	Cartons are easy to recognize and are available in two types: shelf-stable and refrigerated. Both are recyclable. For cartons, please remove plastic caps and straws.
✔️ You CAN recycle:	🚫 You CANNOT recycle:
Shelf-Stable Cartons: Juice, milk, soy milk, soup, broth, wine	Ice cream cartons
Refrigerated: Juice, milk, cream, egg substitutes, cardboard egg containers	Egg cartons (unless cardboard)

Plastic	Any bottle or jug. Don't worry about the printed numbers on the containers. Empty all bottles and jugs before recycling. For plastic bottles, please empty, crush and reattach lids For plastic tubs, please reattach lids prior to recycling.
✔️ You CAN recycle:	🚫 You CANNOT recycle:
Plastic Bottles & Jugs with Small Mouth & Wider Base: Milk jugs, soda bottles, laundry detergent bottles, water bottles, shampoo bottles, contact solution bottles Plastic cups	Clamshell containers, deli containers, storage containers, food film, plastic wrap/packaging Pots from the garden
Plastic Tubs: Containers for butter, sour cream, cottage cheese, yogurt, Jello, and fruit slices would fall into the tub category.	Styrofoam Plastic bags, plastic hangers

Any bottle or jar.

Remove the lids (don't worry about the labels) and rinse out the container before recycling.

✔️ You CAN recycle:

🚫 You CANNOT recycle:

Any color, any size as long as the glass is a bottle or jar

Drinking glasses, baking dishes, dinnerware

Light bulbs

Window glass, broken glass

Metal: Aluminum or Steel	All food-related metal can be recycled. No need to remove labels, but please rinse out food cans. Large metal lids (i.e. spaghetti sauce and pickle jars) are accepted. Small metal lids (i.e. Snapple bottle lid) pose problems in the recycling process.
✔️ You CAN recycle:	🚫 You CANNOT recycle:
Aluminum cans, steel cans and lids Aluminum and metal cups	Metal hangers, scrap metal, car parts Non-food related metal, non-drink related metal
Empty aerosol cans with the lids and tips removed	Aluminum foil

Paper	If you can tear it, you can recycle it!
✔️ You CAN recycle:	🚫 You CANNOT recycle:
Newspaper and magazines Cardboard Mixed office paper and envelopes Telephone books and catalogs	Paper soiled with food Foil-coated paper
Paperboard (cereal boxes) Pizza boxes free of food debris and grease	Bound books