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Sorting Instructions
Sort your recycling into TWO categories:
 Use blue recycling bins, brown paper bags or cardboard boxes to sort your materials for recycling. Blue bins are available at your neighborhood community council. If you chose to provide your own recycling bins, please make sure that they are approximately the same size as the standard recycling bins (14 - 18 gallons). If you use cardboard boxes and want to keep them, please clearly mark them with the word "SAVE". Please do not use plastic bags except for clothes and linens.
Set out your recycling at the curb by 7 a.m., rain, snow or shine! Routes can change at any time and so can your pickup time.
 
The Details
All metal food
& drink cans.
Labels are OK.
All metal can lids, jar lids and bottle caps.
All aluminum foil & trays.
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.
 and  plastic bottles with a neck only!
PLEASE FLATTEN!
No yogurt or margarine tubs.
No plastic bags.
No plastic bottles used to dispose of needles!
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NEW! Recycle your milk cartons and juice boxes!
Really?
Yes, really, we recycle them! They look waxy and shiny, but these cartons are actually made of 70-85% paper. The paper is separated from the metal lining and plastic coating in a pulping process.
It's easy!
1. Remove caps, rinse & flatten (plastic pour spouts are okay)
Like plastic bottles, unflattened cartons are bulky and full of air, filling the trucks more quickly. Help us save fuel and time by reducing the number of trips to the recycling center.
2. Put them in with bottles & cans
Even through they are mostly paper, they need to be collected with bottles and cans because we cannot separate them from paper and cardboard at the recycling facility.
The Details
Phone Books are OK
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, stapled shut and
clearly marked. Do not use plastic bags!
Flatten cardboard to 3 ft x 3 ft or smaller
Tape and staples OK.
No pizza boxes.
No waxed boxes.
Boxboard includes: cereal, cracker, potato chip, cake and snack boxes
tissue, medicine, toothpaste boxes
shoe, toy, game and gift boxes
No egg cartons.
No tissue or gift wrap.
No paper cups or plates.
No frozen or refrigerated food boxes.
 Good Clothes & Linens
These items must be good, clean and reusable. Only pass on what you would give to a friend!
Linens: towels, sheets, blankets, curtains, tablecloths.
Clothes: including belts, coats, hats, gloves, shoes and boots.
No wet or dirty clothes.
No rags or cloth scraps.
No household goods other than clothes and linens.
- Place items in a sturdy plastic bag, 30-gallon size or smaller.
- Make sure the bag is not too heavy for one person to pick up easily.
Fasten the bag tightly so items will not get wet or fall out.
- Clearly mark your bag CLOTHES & LINENS so that the drivers can see the bag is for recycling, not garbage.
- Put your bag at the curb by 7 a.m. with your other recycling on any recycling pickup day.
- Do not put any other recycling in plastic bags.
Sorry, we do not accept household goods other than clothes and linens.
No small working appliances.
No books, tapes or CDs.
No hardware or tools.
No games or toys.
No kitchen goods.
No chemicals or hazardous waste.
No cosmetics, creams or nail polish.
No computers.
Some of these items can be donated to your local Goodwill or secondhand store for reuse. Also see the A-Z Recycling and Safe Disposal Guide.
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Last Update: December 2006
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