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Recycling Guidelines
Recycling Guidelines
Your recycling program is better and greener than ever!
All food and beverage containers made of plastics No. 1 through No. 7!
No black plastics, no styrofoam or other foam plastics, please
Mixed paper – newspapers, magazines, bills, receipts, junk mail, computer paper
and mixed office paper
Shred bills and receipts to destroy personal information
Corrugated cardboard and chipboard (cereal boxes, shoe boxes, pasta boxes)
Remove cereal box linings and pasta box windows
Glass food and drink jars and bottles
Rinsed and unbroken; leave labels on, discard caps and lids
Aluminum and steel containers including aerosol cans (NO PAINT, PESTICIDES OR
OTHER HAZARDOUS WASTES) up to three gallons
Rinse, but don’t crush
Juice boxes and milk or juice containers
Rinse and remove caps and straws
No. 1 and No. 2 plastic food and laundry product containers up to three gallons
Rinsed, but not crushed
Redeem all deposit cans and bottles!
Visit
crra.org
to find out what you can recycle in your Town.