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List of Items That People Try and Recycle Yes No All Office Paper Napkins White/Colored Paper Newspaper (bags and strings removed) Paper Towels Magazines(alltypes) WaxPaper Catalogs (all types) Wrapping Paper Phonebooks (all types) Any Paper Contaminated with bodily fluids Junk mail Gum/candy wrappers Tissue Boxes Heavy Weight Folders & Toilet Paper Rolls Food Packaging (unwaxed only please) Shredded Paper (in bag to minimize blow-away potential) Paper milk, juice and soy milk (should be empty) Books; all soft cover, (hard covers should be ripped off) Empty paper coffee cups (plastic lids removed)

Cardboard Pizza boxes (food and wax paper removed) lined with plastic (ie. Bubblewrap boxes) Corrugated Cardboard Waxed/Waterproof cardboard Brown paper bags Boxboard (i.e. shoeboxes, gift boxes, cereal boxes)

Metal (Please wash out all food jars) Motor Oil Cans Metal & Tin Beverage containers Metal and cardboard containers Metal&Tinfoodcontainers Paintcans Aluminumfoil Noaerosolcans Aluminum Take-Out containers Aluminum Pie Plates and Trays Kitchen cookware; metal pots, pans, tins, and utensils

Glass (Please wash out all food jars) Light bulbs All color glass bottles and jars Mirrow glass Clearglass Windowglass Green glass Ceramic Brown glass Crystal Blue glass Pyrex Glass food containers Beer and wine bottles

Plastics All plastic numbers 1-7 (excluding #6) Plastic “baggies” Food and Beverage containers (i.e. ketchup, mustard, etc) Plastic tableware Screw top jars Styrofoam containers Deli-style containers Film Plastic (i.e. saran wrap) Clam-shell take out containers Plastic Marked #6 Plastic cups (lids and straws removed) Milk jugs Soap Bottles Clean grocery and retail plastic bags (no other type accepted) Plastic jugs/bottles; soda bottles, laundry detergent jugs