Sorting Instructions for Apartment Recycling

These sorting instructions apply to apartment buildings, townhomes, and condominiums with eleven or more units in Lauderdale, Roseville, and Saint Paul, for which Eureka Recycling provides recycling services.

For buildings with ten or fewer units, please see the curbside recycling sorting instructions.

You can help make recycling a success at your building by sorting your materials into these two categories:

• Papers & Cardboard 
     Eureka Recycling now accepts pizza boxes for recycling. Learn more here.
• Bottles & Cans

Download sorting instructions flyer (PDF) or contact us to have it mailed to you.

PAPERS & CARDBOARD

Include phone books with your papers.
Envelopes with windows or metal clasps are OK.
Notebook paper, spiral notebooks (with metal binding), folders, and computer paper are OK.
Shredded paper should be put in a paper bag-- do not use plastic bags.
Pop and beer boxes, too!
Flatten cardboard to 3 feet x 3 feet or smaller and place between the recycling carts.
(Some apartment buildings have a separate, large "cardboard only" dumpster for your flattened cardboard boxes.)

Eureka Recycling now accepts cardboard takeout/delivery pizza boxes for recycling.
Important instructions for recycling pizza boxes:

• No frozen pizza boxes (like you would get from the grocery store)
• No pizza boxes heavily caked with cheese or grease
• No plastic spacers (look like miniature tables)
• No wax or parchment paper sheets/trays
• No aluminum foil (you can put this with your bottles and cans for recycling)
• No leftover pizza

No boxes from your refrigerator or freezer (they are coated with plastic)
No egg cartons
No paper towel or toilet paper tubes
No tissue or gift wrap
No paper cups or plates
No waxed boxes

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BOTTLES & CANS

All metal food and drink cans
All aluminum foil and trays
All metal can lids and jar lids
Labels are OK
Rinse clean

Only and plastic bottles!

Please step on plastic bottles to flatten!

No aerosol cans
No scrap metal
No window glass
No glass dishes or glasses
No broken glass
No Pyrex glass
No light bulbs
No ceramic dishes
No yogurt or margarine tubs
No plastic bags
No toys
No take-out containers
*No bottles used to dispose of needles! (label and throw in trash)

Thank you for recycling!

Last Update: September 2011

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