1 COLLECT 2 EMPTY food scraps and food-soiled paper your kitchen scraps into your in your new kitchen pail! green green waste cart! Your new kitchen pail makes it easy. Line your kitchen pail It’s ok to put food-soiled paper bags with paper bags or newspaper for added convenience. or newspaper into the cart. Please no plastic bags.

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• ALL food products including meat & bones • Coffee grounds & tea bags NO SET OUT • Food-soiled paper • Plastic bags 3 your green waste cart such as pizza boxes, • Glass at the curb for weekly paper towels, paper plates, • Metal paper napkins & waxed • Plastic collection! paper containers • Styrofoam DO NOT SET YOUR KITCHEN PAIL AT • Liquids THE CURB FOR COLLECTION. Now you can RECYCLE CITY OF LIVERMORE FOOD SCRAPS ? FOOD SCRAP in your QUESTIONS GREEN WASTE CART! RECYCLING

Your participation in the Food Scrap Recycling Program helps your community and helps the environment, and it is free! Food scraps are the single largest part of what is sent to WASTE MANAGEMENT OF LIVERMORE the landfill today. Food scraps and food-soiled paper products are easily separated from garbage. (925)447-1300

When combined with green waste, food scraps can be For questions about garbage and recycling services. processed into rich compost material and used for gardening, landscaping and farming.

COLLECT food scraps. Use the new kitchen 1 pail, paper bags or milk cartons for convenience. 2 EMPTY food scraps into your green waste cart. 3 SET OUT the green waste cart as usual for weekly collection.

ALAMEDA COUNTY RECYCLING HOTLINE 1(877)STOPWASTE EASY, CONVENIENT A N D F R E E !

This program is funded by the City of Livermore and the Alameda County Waste Management Authority and Recycling Board. A HOW-TO GUIDE Printed on recycled paper using soy-based inks.