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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.
Recycling Tips
- 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
- Reduce unwanted junk mail by registering at DMAChoice.org and National Yellow Pages Consumer Choice and Opt-Out Site
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. |
βοΈ You CAN recycle: | π« You CANNOT recycle: |
Shelf-Stable Cartons: | 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. |
βοΈ You CAN recycle: | π« You CANNOT recycle: |
Plastic Bottles & Jugs with Small Mouth & Wider Base: | Clamshell containers, deli containers, 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 |
Glass | Any bottle or jar. Remove the lids (don't worry about the labels) and rinse out the container before recycling. |
βοΈ You CAN recycle: | π« 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. |
βοΈ You CAN recycle: | π« 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! |
βοΈ You CAN recycle: | π« You CANNOT recycle: |
Newspaper and magazines | Paper soiled with food Foil-coated paper |
Paperboard (cereal boxes) Pizza boxes free of food debris and grease | Bound books |